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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. He went to college, got a job on Wall Street, and launched a startup, LendStreet to help people like his mom refinance their bad loans and get access to better ones. Like any entrepreneur, Jerry wanted to solve it.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. 10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 27th. RSVP: [link]. 7:00PM: NYC MusicTechnology Meetup.

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

There was, in my opinion, a lot of fluff in the examples they chose, and of the ten there were only two that really stood out to me as areas with the depth and breadth to be home to multiple successful startups, and they were business intelligence applications of big data and virtual assistants.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. Do you want to talk a little bit about the role you see for startups to play in this recovery? Ron Klain : Yeah.