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Central Texas Shines on Inc. Magazine’s 2024 List with Seven Women Entrepreneurs Redefining Innovation

SiliconHills

Magazine Names Seven Central Texas Entrepreneurs to its 2024 Top 250 Most Intriguing Women Entrepreneur List. Six female founders come from Austin and one from San Antonio. Allison Ellsworth founded Poppi, a prebiotic soda that combines fruit juices and apple cider vinegar.

Texas 77
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I am a proud Mexican-American “Tejano” who grew up in South Texas.

Austin Startup

I love you New England, but Texas is calling me home Why we Moved Back To Texas I love you New England, but Texas is calling me home I am a proud Mexican-American “Tejano” who grew up in South Texas. As a teenager I moved away from Texas to Chicago to put myself through school and find opportunity outside of South Texas.

Texas 48
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Hitch Finds Success Providing Long Distance Ride Sharing in Texas and Florida

SiliconHills

Hitch, the ride-sharing company launched by University of Texas at Austin students in 2018, has expanded to Florida. The Austin-based company has already facilitated 60,000 rides in Texas, said Kush Singh, the company’s co-founder, and CEO. It operates in every major Texas city. We were thinking […].

Florida 153
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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. We’ve seen lots of resumes that show universities in Texas, Florida, and Arizona. Like a lot, a lot.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Joe Lonsdale.

Texas 90
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Why you should invest in Texas

Austin Startup

Texas has always been a place that embraces new ideas and hard work?—?from It’s no wonder that Texas is one of the most active states for entrepreneurs and startups. These Texas startups exhibited the innovation, determination and grit of the early Texans. We amplified this in last month’s sessions.

Texas 97
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The Austin State of Entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

she / her) - Senior Vice President, Global Technology and Innovation - Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce | LinkedIn Will Young - CEO & Co-founder - Sana Benefits | LinkedIn Andrea L. Thomaz - co-Founder, CEO - Diligent Robotics, Inc. Hurt - CEO and Co-founder - data.world | LinkedIn Dana M. LinkedIn Brett A.

Austin 68