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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

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Save Money With Tech Tax Incentives

YoungUpstarts

Case in point: your company’s technology. When one thinks of technology, we often conjure thoughts of electronics that fill a building, not the building itself. When one thinks of technology, we often conjure thoughts of electronics that fill a building, not the building itself. Deductions gleaned from efficient office spaces.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. 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. All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they

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Six Reasons You Need to be at Fed Supernova This September

Austin Startup

They know they need to quickly incorporate new technologies and new ideas. It’s the one place where the entire defense innovation ecosystem gathers to discuss trending technologies?—?and It’s where defense priorities and trending technology collide for good. and it’s looking for technology from beyond its traditional sources.

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Why you should invest in Texas

Austin Startup

In Austin, the innovation departments of the US Defense departments have taken up residence, many within Capital Factory and are curating, funding and buying technology from local startups. We went public in 2012.” Each city hosted break out sessions around topics that are especially relevant in that city.

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SwRI Leads Open Source Consortium for Robot Makers

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Editor’s Note: Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is a nonprofit research and engineering organization with more than 3,000 employees and revenue of $581 million last year. It’s one of the gems of San Antonio’s technology community. You can read more about the organization here.

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Capital Factory Center for Defense Innovation Year One Success Stories

Austin Startup

This first all-virtual AFWERX event included over 2,000 online attendees, 88 virtual pitches, 60 online Air Force and Space Force judges, and 599 government contracts worth $625 million in what Dr. Will Roper called “the largest small biz transaction in gov’t history!” Not all of the “unprecedented” events were good.

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