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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. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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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. Joshua Baer, Founder, General Partner & CEO In partnership with JP Morgan, we invited dozens of investors from around the world on a three day Texas Startups Roadshow highlighting the best of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

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Why you should invest in Texas

Austin Startup

Kevin McNeill, SVP Cyberspace solutions CACI said, “CACI has been investing resources into the Texas technology corridor over the past several years, including opening new offices in San Antonio and in Austin. We went public in 2012.” Each city hosted break out sessions around topics that are especially relevant in that city.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. March 13, 2018 3:30PM?

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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Why You Should Know Your Local SBDC

Up and Running

The SBDCs are financed by three mostly public sources: the federal government (through the SBA), state governments and local education. This comes to mind because I’m traveling this week to attend the annual conference of the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) in San Antonio, Texas.

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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. The mentor network is the soul of Capital Factory.