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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory.

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Capital Factory Doubles Down on Houston

Austin Startup

Startups in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio shouldn’t need to move to Austin to scale. Bryan Chambers, General Partner and VP of Accelerator Last year we hired our first full time employees in Houston and launched a partnership with The Cannon. We have a bright future.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. He settled his family in San Antonio, Texas and opened a Cajun restaurant in a shack in the city. Lidia Calzado, U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

and in the early days of the national school lunch program, when it first was established in the 1940s, it was really a lot about hiring local people to cook onsite at schools. How can people know what the governance is, or how do you address that issue as it's come up, as you've engaged with your community stakeholders?

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Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019

Austin Startup

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. Georgia joined as our 8th employee and now our team is almost 10 times that size?—?mostly mostly all people who she hired! Vice President?—?Defense Venture Associate?

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Come manage the Mentor Network at Capital Factory

Austin Startup

As part of the Texas Startup Manifesto , we are expanding the mentor network from Austin to all of Texas, starting with our partners The DEC in Dallas, Geekdom in San Antonio and other partners in Houston. You will lead and grow a team across Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio who are passionate about entrepreneurs and mentorship.