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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Latinitas Austin and El Paso chapters together at last for our strategic planning session with IBM. In 2012, IBM graciously provided a $6,500 super server to connect our two program bases in Austin and El Paso. Coffee and pink cake helped with the process.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Fix-n-Flip Real Estate Company

Up and Running

Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. The problem: El Paso is a hot real estate market with lots of young people and families seeking homes on the cheap. For example, PARE fixes and flips homes in the El Paso real estate market.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

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Take for instance, Joe Lewandowski , who in 1983 was in the process of acquiring a 300-acre landfill in New Mexico, when he saw the first of nine truckloads arrive from El Paso, Texas. “Don’t ignore technology,” Chuck advises. Their cargo? the Extra Terrestrial.”