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StartupBus – Round 2, Part 2 – Mexico Storms San Antonio, Steals StartupBus Show – (Post #6)

Up and Running

San Antonio – we have a problem. The Mexico StartupBus is a bus travelling from Mexico City, to Austin, TX, via San Antonio, stuffed with about 40 geeky entrepreneurs ( no one knows exactly how many there actually are on this particular bus ), at least 100 electronic devices, and who knows how many open containers of Patron.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Austin is different from Dallas which is different from Houston and San Antonio.

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San Antonio-based Harland Clarke Acquires RetailMeNot for $630 million

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San Antonio-based Harland Clarke announced Monday it has acquired RetailMeNot for $11.60 Harland Clarke, a payment solutions and marketing services company, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RetailMeNot, which trades on the NASDAQ market under the sybmol SALE. per share or $600 million.

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San Antonio Tech Events to Attend This Week

SiliconHills

The biggest event going on this week in San Antonio is the first Philanthropic Pitch event at the H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center. The proceeds from the ticket sales go to the winners of the pitch event. It’s another event that brings together the Austin and San Antonio tech and philanthropic communities.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.). And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The

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Codeup Seeks to Create New Developers in San Antonio

SiliconHills

This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley. San Antonio Codeup coding Geekdom MakerSquare Michael Girdley Open Cloud Academy technology TrueAbility'

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UK-Based THG is Considering San Antonio for its U.S. Divisional Headquarters with 165 Jobs

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A technology company from the United Kingdom is considering San Antonio for its U.S. The Hut Group, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, first considered San Antonio for a new U.S. based sales center but has since decided to put an even bigger office in San Antonio, pending the approval […].