Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2018

In 1294 Gaykhatu (literally, “Awesome” in Mongolian) was the leader of one Hoard of Mongols ruling over what is now Iran, Iraq and Southwest Asia. Taking his name a little too literally, Awesome decided that he needed fiat currency like that introduced by his distant cousin Kublai in China. Yeah, that ended badly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." His name is Tomas Pueyo. would be in a very different place than we are today.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2013

A recent report named Tel Aviv the second most vibrant start up ecosystem in the world , behind only Silicon Valley. Native Israeli venture capital represents only 25% of the VC capital invested in the market - most of the money is coming from global firms like Battery, Greylock, Lightspeed, Sequoia and others.

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