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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way. New Age VC About This is just a start.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

Nevertheless, Southwest charges $5 for in-flight Internet access, which starts to feel like nickel-and-diming. Surely for Internet access they take PayPal or Google Wallet, which would solve this problem in about 30 seconds?

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. I think that's happening all over the internet right now. Eric Ries : This is a pretty sober and deadly situation. How are you both doing? Can you tell us a little bit about your personal quarantine setup? Jen Pahlka : I have a very blessed quarantine. I feel very lucky.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

645 Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture fund that focuses on Internet and software companies. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Mindblown was founded by Jason Young and Tracy Moore, both African-American Harvard graduates. Another example is 645 Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Nnamdi Okike.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people.