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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Austin had one of the smaller networks of the nine metros examined and had a proportional share of venture funding as predicted by Metcalfe’s Law.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. In fact, I absolutely assumed that he was white because the only Braden I had ever known was a terrible Mets reliever from Oklahoma who was not a person of color.