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How Kip Lewis of Austin, Texas Found Success After Failure

The Startup Magazine

Austin, Texas, USA downtown skyline. His successful career began at age 27 when he purchased an RV and mobile home park with the entire $2,000 balance from his savings account. Since that time, Kip Lewis has repeated the process with more than 2,000 other RV and mobile home parks in and around Austin, Texas.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Joe Lonsdale.

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First prototype, Design and UI — Mobile Game Development Guide #2

Austin Startup

Here’s the video of the first gameplay: [link] “The biggest challenge in creating this game from a programming standpoint was moving from computer-based developing to a mobile specific platforms. In mobile games you want the player to be close enough to see details on the characters but not too far so as they lose immersion and detail.

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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. 7- Mobile app. We currently have a mobile app being developed that should help our customers, and even non-customers be able to determine their suspected type of home infestation or to track and log signs of a potential infestation.

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Why You Should Encourage Customer Reviews (And How To Do It)

YoungUpstarts

Get mobile. At this point, there’s no excuse for not being optimized for mobile. Reviews, likewise, should be mobile-friendly, especially since 80% of surveyed customers admit to using their smartphones to research products while shopping in a physical store.

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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

Today’s technology landscape is littered with buzzwords and seemingly urgent exhortations for businesses: move to the cloud, spend time and money developing a mobile app, support mobility, and so on. For example, if your employees work from an office, mobility and portability are not must-have options.

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Austin Entrepreneurs Create Mobile App Solutions to Help Retailers Handle Curbside Pickup

SiliconHills

Texas retail stores are now able to offer curbside service to customers under Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order that took effect on Friday. The post Austin Entrepreneurs Create Mobile App Solutions to Help Retailers Handle Curbside Pickup appeared first on SiliconHills. To help retailers out, Austin […].

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