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STRAP Technologies, Groundbreaking Device to Aid the Visually Impaired, Announces New Hire

Austin Startup

Strap Technologies, the groundbreaking company headquartered in Austin, Texas with a mission to become the world’s first substitute for the white cane, has announced that Natalia Ferriz will join the rapidly expanding team as Marketing Director. With a $50 USD deposit now, the remainder is due prior to shipping later this year.

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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified. The organization looks forward to finding that same sense of community here in Texas. “As

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

We’ve seen lots of resumes that show universities in Texas, Florida, and Arizona. Some of them will be less well-known universities, but others will be legit universities like UT Austin, Texas A&M, etc. I distinctly remember one candidate saying that he grew up in Texas, but the whole time he pronounced Texas as Tex-ASS.

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Acxiom Opens Austin Office, Plans To Hire 150 People

Austin Startup

AcxiomAcxiom Logo, a publicly traded enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company, today announced that it will be opening a new office in Austin, Texas, to accommodate growing demand in its technology, engineering and operations. Enterprise acxiom hiring'

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Two Clean Energy Incubators Launched in Texas

Austin Startup

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) are announcing a program to launch two new clean energy incubators at Texas universities. The goal is to aid the commercialization of clean energy technologies and foster the growth of companies in the clean energy sector in Texas.

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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

2- Expanding into Texas. Next year, I am expanding my already successful business into Texas. Many businesses had to make some tough cutbacks during the pandemic, and a lot of small businesses didn’t have the budget from the beginning to hire a full-time employee to help build their creative assets. Photo credit: Matt Rostosky.

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How Silicon Valley's Most-Connected Exec Does His Hiring

ReadWriteStart

Introduced before keynoting at Austin, Texas's Capital Factory Demo Day as "the most-connected person in Silicon Valley," Hoffman gave a really interesting talk about how he handles hiring at his company. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups. I live blogged his talk on Google Plus and offer my notes below.