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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

many VC’s had a hard time backing folks like Andrew Mason or Mark Zuckerberg or Drew Houston because of their relative lack of experience. one could argue that the best companies built on mobile, social, and the cloud emerged when the concept of Web2.0 I recall that during Web2.0, The other timing parallel between Web2.0 was long gone.

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Are Mobile Platforms Austin’s Differentiator?

Austin Startup

As we’ve discussed in this column before, Austin has a very robust mobile scene. But, then so do the Bay Area, New York City, the Boston 128 corridor, and for that matter Houston and Dallas. As Kleiner partner Mary Meeker so nicely summed up recently , mobile is the “it&# Internet trend of the moment.

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Add Your Name: Austin Tech Community Letter Supporting 5G

Austin Startup

In fact, a recent Texas Senate hearing revealed that among the major metropolitan areas in the state, Houston had approved 548 small cell permit applications, Dallas had approved 288, and Austin had approved only two. Austin is far behind other communities in permitting small cells, technology that will bring 5G?—?the

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From Inmates to Entrepreneurs: The San Quentin Startup Accelerator

ReadWriteStart

Redlitz is not allowed to bring anything beyond books and articles into the prison and the five members of the first Last Mile class had never been on the Internet and never used a mobile device. “We Houston is serving time for second-degree murder but is due to be paroled in early 2013.

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Bunker Labs and Irreverent Warriors in Austin and Other Veterans Mobilize to Rescue People Following Hurricane Harvey

SiliconHills

On Monday morning following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey, Johnathan Wojtewicz headed to Houston in his truck towing a Jet Ski equipped with a boat deck capable of rescuing nine to ten people and animals. But on the way to Houston, he ended up rescuing about 40 people stranded in their vehicles along the highway […].

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Unwired Nation Continues Growth Into New Markets

Austin Startup

Mobile platform provider Unwired Nation today announced the addition of ethosIQ to its roster of certified mobile solutions providers. Mobile platform provider Unwired Nation today announced the addition of ethosIQ to its roster of certified mobile solutions providers.

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Blockchain is more than memes, wild price fluctuations and my old pal Elon’s tweets

Austin Startup

All event data is put onto a blockchain (in this case using the Blockchain-as-a-Service solution from our partners Topl of Houston, Texas) for full transparency?—?not Blockchain Identity The user identity recorded by the Cold Chain solution for an event is of the authenticated user of the browser or mobile version initiating that event.