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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

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Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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Medici’s Founder Clinton Phillips Talks About Disrupting the Healthcare Industry on Ideas to Invoices

SiliconHills

A Native of South Africa, Clinton Phillips, a serial entrepreneur, recently founded Medici, a HIPAA-complaint telemedicine app, in Austin and raised more than $24 million in venture capital funding.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. He also served nearly 2 years as an EIR and Scout at True Ventures one of the Silicon Valley firms I most respect. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it.

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10 Diversity & Inclusion Events You Won’t Want To Miss At SXSW

Austin Startup

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I’ll talk about all that in a future post.

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The Masters Golf Tournament – A Startup Unlike Any Other

Up and Running

Gary Player won his first green jacket in 1961, took it home to South Africa, and never returned it. He’s the only one to not return the jacket, that rascal). Champions Dinner – in 1952 Ben Hogan (who won in ’51) held a special dinner with invitations sent only to previous Masters winners.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. He had already sent a bunch of his staff on projects in Argentina & South Africa at super cheap rates just to keep his staff busy. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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