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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

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents.

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SEC Releases Rules for Equity-based Crowdfunding

SiliconHills

Early next year, startups may be able to raise money from the general public to finance their ventures. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday released its long-awaited proposed rules governing the practice of equity-based crowdfunding that allows startups to sell securities directly to the public.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. For decades, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been on all of the “Top 10 Places for…” lists. It all starts with people?—?talent.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas. My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

You know the next two cons for being your own boss kind of have to do with finances. Peter: Even those who do, have a good finance source, or a good initial start up loan, that kind of thing. Number 10 best, San Antonio Texas. Jonathan: San Antonions how do you feel about being 10 on the list? Do you agree?

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. We got involved with it when we were in San Antonio. And there are national programs, there are local programs, there are community-based programs.