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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. I believe it will take all of Texas working together. Texas cities are diverse.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. There is an obvious network effect at work when you bring together the world’s leading programs and the world’s leading hackers on a single platform. based teachers.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas. When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Colonel) is the Director of the Texas Military Department Joint Innovation Unit, a DARPA and NSIN Fellow, and now leads the Defense Innovation Unit across Texas. Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. STOIKY is his callsign.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

Items like the size of your user community, network effects, brand name, strong team and so on can ultimately lead to better acquisition pricing. For Salesforce, the edge comes from the network effect, brand name, plethora of integration and the name recognition. Alpha generation. But doing it consistently is simply impossible.

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

These competitions started in the early 1980 ‘s at the University of Texas and have sprouted like mushrooms in the last 10 years. Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like.

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Will Cities Be Ready for 5G?

Austin Startup

5G is the latest iteration of cellular technology, engineered to exponentially increase the speed (up to 100 times current levels ) and responsiveness of wireless networks. It will also facilitate a massive increase in the amount of data transmitted over these networks. billion people are set to have access to 5G networks?—?a