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You wouldn’t need a PhD to know that the driver of the car, Virginia, Ellen’s mother was out of sorts. Virginia was a strong person, but the signs were evident. Unfortunately, it seemed Virginia wasn’t going anywhere fast on that particular day. Virginia smiled. MORE
New York state, for example, has reciprocity with several states, including Massachusetts, Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. MORE
14.7%) New Mexico (7.14%) Virginia (14.3%) Four Industries General (28.57%) Healthcare/Life Sciences (28.57%) High Tech (28.57%) Social Impact (14.3%) 58% Female Founded “The amount of attention given to female and minority founders is long overdue,” said Sara T. MORE
You have a great idea for an app or a startup but you have have absolutely no programming skills. MORE
Not only did I find an incredibly interesting piece by Virginia Postrel, In Praise of Irrational Exuberance , but it turns out that another GMU economist, John V.C. Nye , has some fascinating research and thoughts on how our modern, innovative economy can thrive, or not. Thanks to Tim Kane at Growthology for the find). From Postrel : Nye, now at George Mason University, argues that countries become economically stagnant when their business people become too mature and rational. MORE
Since its humble inception, Nathan has grown Heyo from his dorm room at Virginia Tech to 10,000 paying customers, $2.5 Just last month, Nathan Latka took a risk: A public, five million dollar, business-defining risk. At 26, Nathan is already a bonafide startup icon. MORE
The latest entry is DayOne Ventures , just opened for business in Southwest Virginia, and seeking applicants. By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Relationships , I said back then. MORE
Our guest today is Kimberly Wilson, Deputy Director of Human Resources, Volunteers and Community Service, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Kimberly, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an organisation that values volunteering and building a strong connection with the community. MORE
National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. MORE
” and Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. by Michael Lenox and Ronnie Chatterji, co-authors of “ Can Business Save the Earth?: MORE
This year’s class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders. MORE
It bothers me, for example, when condo builders get tax incentives to build luxury condos in NYC when it’s pretty clear you can still make plenty of money without them—and it’s not like they would pick up and start building condos in West Virginia if they got better tax treatment. I’m not a fan of protectionism. MORE
Virginia is number two in the amount of funding over the past quarter. Venture capital is still alive and well, at least it was in the third quarter of this year. MORE
When Ohanian and his University of Virginia roommate, Steve Huffman, pitched their idea […] The post Be a Creator and Change the World Says Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit appeared first on SiliconHills. Everyone can be a creator now on the Internet, said Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. It doesn’t take anything but an idea and an Internet connection, Ohanian said during an afternoon keynote address at Dell World held at the Austin Convention Center. MORE
Take a quick read of The Medium–The Death of the Open Web on the nytimes.com site, by Virginia Heffernan. Tags: technology trends apps iPad iphone NYTimes.com open web smallbizlabs Steve King Virginia Heffernan I like a thoughtful analysis that puts some conceptual order into larger sweeping trends. She makes some very interesting points. MORE
One of the finest writers of the 21 century, Dalrymple’s roots can be traced back to Virginia Wolf. Storytelling is an art , an art propelled by the condition of life itself. MORE
Virginia. Virginia topped Forbes Magazine’s list of best states for business in 2013. Virginia is known for its educated workforce and diverse industry. by Lewis Robinson. Looking to start a business? MORE
Burton, III, Trustee, Commonwealth of Virginia Retirement Systems (VRS); Member, Board of Directors Chase Investment Counsel Corporation; Professor of Economics, University of Virginia. MORE
Amazon, based in Seattle and Northern Virginia, already has more than 1,000 employees in Austin at two buildings in the Domain area. Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to add 800 jobs to its Austin Tech Hub. The jobs will be in the fields of software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing. And […]. The post Amazon Expands its Austin Tech Hub with 800 New Jobs and New Office Building appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia. When I first met Meredith Perry she was 24. That was three months ago this week. MORE
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. You can order Virginia’s book Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art RIGHT NOW MORE
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. You can order Virginia’s book Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art RIGHT NOW MORE
Focus4media provides sight, sound, scent and system solutions to businesses in the mid-Atlantic region, including Alabama, Florida, Virginia and more […]. Austin-based Mood Media, the parent company of Muzak, announced Monday afternoon that it has acquired focus4media, one of the largest Mood independent affiliates in North America. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MORE
For instance Virginia Slims is a cigarette targeted at women. Branding is complex topic. Everybody uses the term “brand” but few will be able to clearly define it. We have had clients, who confuse branding with a website. MORE
Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and the VT KnowledgeWorks Business Acceleration Center at Virginia Tech, led by Jim Flowers. MORE
Virginia seemed like a very big place back in 1998 when I decided to start this company under the name Virginia Lake Management. Today, Virginia is just one of more than 35 states we serve throughout the country. MORE
Poquoson, Virginia. Located just outside Hampton Roads and Norfolk, Virginia, this mobile entrepreneur friendly town has amazing views of the world’s largest natural harbour. Businessweek declared Poquoson as one of the safest communities in Virginia. MORE
The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D. MORE
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. In response to my post Book: Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape several people asked me for the feminist literature reading list that Amy had put together for me. Following are the other ten books that I’m working my way through this fall. Sexual Politics by Kate Millet. Sisterhood is Forever by Robin Morgan. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks. MORE
This is a picture (thanks to Google Maps) of the Virginia Tech drillfield, the center of campus. All the students living in dorms cross the drillfield every day to get to classes on the other side. The grey lines you see, crossing the drillfield are the sidewalks. MORE
If you support the Startup Visa and are in the congressional district for Congressman Lamar Smith (TX-21), Darrell Issa (CA-49), or Bob Goodlatte (VA-6) I’d like to talk to you – please drop me an email. Startup Visa MORE
Here's a look at three brands that got PR (and being human) right as the Carolinas and Virginia confront multiple threats from Hurricane Florence. Company Culture Grow News acts of god Breaking News company culture natural disasters MORE
By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News As a kid growing up in rural West Virginia, Chris Taylor launched his first entrepreneurial venture, ranching turtles. In the summertime, he would capture turtles from the woods and create a “Turtle Ranch” that people would pay $1 to visit. At the end of the […] The post Chris Taylor Built Square Root into a Thriving Software Company in Austin with no Outside Investment appeared first on SiliconHills. MORE
I was in my third year at the University of Virginia, and my professor, Sandra Schmidt, was simply awesome. I took my first marketing course 20 years ago. And I absolutely loved it. She was one of those professors who loved what she did. MORE
One of the employees explained that approximately half the staff was from other Cracker Barrel stores in Virginia and that they were here to get the Jersey employees up to speed. During a recent trip I stopped by one of my favorite chain restaurants, Cracker Barrel.*. MORE
As I sit in my hotel room in Virginia trying to fall asleep (and not succeeding), my mind has wandered to my trip here from Austin this morning and my trip home to Colorado tomorrow. Plus I’d be home now, instead of still in Virginia. MORE
Saras Sarasvathy , of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Uncategorized affordable loss angel investment Darden School of Business Inc.com Leigh Buchanon Saras Sarasvathy University of Virginia MORE
“Virginia Woolf wrote, ‘Across the broad continent of a woman’s life falls the shadow of a sword.’ Hamilton Pool. I just got back from a week long part stay-cation and part away-cation with some friends who live in two different cities. MORE
Austin British Airways Fred Schmidt Glenn Morgan Homeaway Jon Driscoll Mass Relevance Matt Curtis Spredfast Virginia Miracle By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The British Airways direct flight that just started its inaugural journeys back and forth from London to Austin isn’t your average plane ride. It has been calibrated to reduce jetlag. For example, the lighting is different from other planes. MORE
The Seattle-based company announced this week it has selected New York City and Arlington, Virginia, as the locations for its new headquarters. Austin lost its bid for Amazon’s HQ2 project. Amazon plans to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs in the new locations. The fundamentals that made Austin a top 20 finalist […]. The post Austin Loses its bid for Amazon’s HQ2 appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
Virginia. Did your dream job make an offer? It’s everything you want it to be – except it’s in another city, state, or even country altogether. Around 11% of all job seekers in 2018 relocated. The next person to make the big move could be you! MORE
Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities. (San The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. I received a request to post this info back in April, but just now had the time to get it on the blog. It’s a bit dated but still useful especially since Austin, Texas made the list for being one of the most friendly places for small businesses! MORE
The company, based in Warrenton, Virginia installs high-speed fiber optic cable on roads, and parking lots. TRAXyL, a startup that installs high-speed Internet on roadways, received the top prize of $150,000 in cash from MassChallenge Texas in Austin on Thursday night. MORE
In Virginia, we’re implementing a mobile solution that even works offline so child services professionals can spend more time protecting children and counseling parents in the field and less time on manual record keeping and administrative tasks. MORE
Virginia Related Topics Hunter Walker
JULY 28, 2016
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. You can order Virginia’s book Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art RIGHT NOW
Hunter Walker
JULY 28, 2016
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art. You can order Virginia’s book Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art RIGHT NOW
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Feld Thoughts
APRIL 15, 2011
If you support the Startup Visa and are in the congressional district for Congressman Lamar Smith (TX-21), Darrell Issa (CA-49), or Bob Goodlatte (VA-6) I’d like to talk to you – please drop me an email. Startup Visa
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Not only did I find an incredibly interesting piece by Virginia Postrel, In Praise of Irrational Exuberance , but it turns out that another GMU economist, John V.C. Nye , has some fascinating research and thoughts on how our modern, innovative economy can thrive, or not. Thanks to Tim Kane at Growthology for the find). From Postrel : Nye, now at George Mason University, argues that countries become economically stagnant when their business people become too mature and rational.
entrepreMusings
JULY 6, 2013
Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities. (San The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. I received a request to post this info back in April, but just now had the time to get it on the blog. It’s a bit dated but still useful especially since Austin, Texas made the list for being one of the most friendly places for small businesses!
SiliconHills
MARCH 6, 2014
Austin British Airways Fred Schmidt Glenn Morgan Homeaway Jon Driscoll Mass Relevance Matt Curtis Spredfast Virginia Miracle By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The British Airways direct flight that just started its inaugural journeys back and forth from London to Austin isn’t your average plane ride. It has been calibrated to reduce jetlag. For example, the lighting is different from other planes.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Saras Sarasvathy , of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Uncategorized affordable loss angel investment Darden School of Business Inc.com Leigh Buchanon Saras Sarasvathy University of Virginia
Up and Running
MAY 25, 2010
Take a quick read of The Medium–The Death of the Open Web on the nytimes.com site, by Virginia Heffernan. Tags: technology trends apps iPad iphone NYTimes.com open web smallbizlabs Steve King Virginia Heffernan I like a thoughtful analysis that puts some conceptual order into larger sweeping trends. She makes some very interesting points.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The company, based in Warrenton, Virginia installs high-speed fiber optic cable on roads, and parking lots. TRAXyL, a startup that installs high-speed Internet on roadways, received the top prize of $150,000 in cash from MassChallenge Texas in Austin on Thursday night.
SiliconHills
APRIL 22, 2018
This year’s class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders.
SiliconHills
MARCH 28, 2019
Amazon, based in Seattle and Northern Virginia, already has more than 1,000 employees in Austin at two buildings in the Domain area. Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to add 800 jobs to its Austin Tech Hub. The jobs will be in the fields of software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing. And […]. The post Amazon Expands its Austin Tech Hub with 800 New Jobs and New Office Building appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
entrepreMusings
AUGUST 15, 2010
“Virginia Woolf wrote, ‘Across the broad continent of a woman’s life falls the shadow of a sword.’ Hamilton Pool. I just got back from a week long part stay-cation and part away-cation with some friends who live in two different cities.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. In response to my post Book: Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape several people asked me for the feminist literature reading list that Amy had put together for me. Following are the other ten books that I’m working my way through this fall. Sexual Politics by Kate Millet. Sisterhood is Forever by Robin Morgan. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2019
You wouldn’t need a PhD to know that the driver of the car, Virginia, Ellen’s mother was out of sorts. Virginia was a strong person, but the signs were evident. Unfortunately, it seemed Virginia wasn’t going anywhere fast on that particular day. Virginia smiled.
SiliconHills
JUNE 1, 2017
By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News As a kid growing up in rural West Virginia, Chris Taylor launched his first entrepreneurial venture, ranching turtles. In the summertime, he would capture turtles from the woods and create a “Turtle Ranch” that people would pay $1 to visit. At the end of the […] The post Chris Taylor Built Square Root into a Thriving Software Company in Austin with no Outside Investment appeared first on SiliconHills.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 16, 2013
Burton, III, Trustee, Commonwealth of Virginia Retirement Systems (VRS); Member, Board of Directors Chase Investment Counsel Corporation; Professor of Economics, University of Virginia.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The Seattle-based company announced this week it has selected New York City and Arlington, Virginia, as the locations for its new headquarters. Austin lost its bid for Amazon’s HQ2 project. Amazon plans to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs in the new locations. The fundamentals that made Austin a top 20 finalist […]. The post Austin Loses its bid for Amazon’s HQ2 appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
Transformify
JULY 27, 2019
Our guest today is Kimberly Wilson, Deputy Director of Human Resources, Volunteers and Community Service, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Kimberly, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an organisation that values volunteering and building a strong connection with the community.
SiliconHills
JULY 2, 2018
Focus4media provides sight, sound, scent and system solutions to businesses in the mid-Atlantic region, including Alabama, Florida, Virginia and more […]. Austin-based Mood Media, the parent company of Muzak, announced Monday afternoon that it has acquired focus4media, one of the largest Mood independent affiliates in North America. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
When Ohanian and his University of Virginia roommate, Steve Huffman, pitched their idea […] The post Be a Creator and Change the World Says Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit appeared first on SiliconHills. Everyone can be a creator now on the Internet, said Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. It doesn’t take anything but an idea and an Internet connection, Ohanian said during an afternoon keynote address at Dell World held at the Austin Convention Center.
The Next Web
MAY 8, 2016
Since its humble inception, Nathan has grown Heyo from his dorm room at Virginia Tech to 10,000 paying customers, $2.5 Just last month, Nathan Latka took a risk: A public, five million dollar, business-defining risk. At 26, Nathan is already a bonafide startup icon.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2010
The latest entry is DayOne Ventures , just opened for business in Southwest Virginia, and seeking applicants. By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Relationships , I said back then.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 4, 2016
As I sit in my hotel room in Virginia trying to fall asleep (and not succeeding), my mind has wandered to my trip here from Austin this morning and my trip home to Colorado tomorrow. Plus I’d be home now, instead of still in Virginia.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
New York state, for example, has reciprocity with several states, including Massachusetts, Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 28, 2014
Virginia. Virginia topped Forbes Magazine’s list of best states for business in 2013. Virginia is known for its educated workforce and diverse industry. by Lewis Robinson. Looking to start a business?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 23, 2018
” and Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. by Michael Lenox and Ronnie Chatterji, co-authors of “ Can Business Save the Earth?:
Mike Michalowicz
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
This is a picture (thanks to Google Maps) of the Virginia Tech drillfield, the center of campus. All the students living in dorms cross the drillfield every day to get to classes on the other side. The grey lines you see, crossing the drillfield are the sidewalks.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
One of the employees explained that approximately half the staff was from other Cracker Barrel stores in Virginia and that they were here to get the Jersey employees up to speed. During a recent trip I stopped by one of my favorite chain restaurants, Cracker Barrel.*.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2014
The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D.
Brandanew
JULY 11, 2015
For instance Virginia Slims is a cigarette targeted at women. Branding is complex topic. Everybody uses the term “brand” but few will be able to clearly define it. We have had clients, who confuse branding with a website.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 8, 2019
14.7%) New Mexico (7.14%) Virginia (14.3%) Four Industries General (28.57%) Healthcare/Life Sciences (28.57%) High Tech (28.57%) Social Impact (14.3%) 58% Female Founded “The amount of attention given to female and minority founders is long overdue,” said Sara T.
Growthink Blog
MARCH 27, 2018
I was in my third year at the University of Virginia, and my professor, Sandra Schmidt, was simply awesome. I took my first marketing course 20 years ago. And I absolutely loved it. She was one of those professors who loved what she did.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 2, 2010
Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and the VT KnowledgeWorks Business Acceleration Center at Virginia Tech, led by Jim Flowers.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2013
You have a great idea for an app or a startup but you have have absolutely no programming skills.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2018
In Virginia, we’re implementing a mobile solution that even works offline so child services professionals can spend more time protecting children and counseling parents in the field and less time on manual record keeping and administrative tasks.
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 3, 2013
Poquoson, Virginia. Located just outside Hampton Roads and Norfolk, Virginia, this mobile entrepreneur friendly town has amazing views of the world’s largest natural harbour. Businessweek declared Poquoson as one of the safest communities in Virginia.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Virginia is number two in the amount of funding over the past quarter. Venture capital is still alive and well, at least it was in the third quarter of this year.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia. When I first met Meredith Perry she was 24. That was three months ago this week.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
It bothers me, for example, when condo builders get tax incentives to build luxury condos in NYC when it’s pretty clear you can still make plenty of money without them—and it’s not like they would pick up and start building condos in West Virginia if they got better tax treatment. I’m not a fan of protectionism.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 9, 2019
Virginia seemed like a very big place back in 1998 when I decided to start this company under the name Virginia Lake Management. Today, Virginia is just one of more than 35 states we serve throughout the country.
Brandanew
JULY 21, 2015
One of the finest writers of the 21 century, Dalrymple’s roots can be traced back to Virginia Wolf. Storytelling is an art , an art propelled by the condition of life itself.
Steve Blank
MAY 12, 2015
National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 2, 2019
Virginia. Did your dream job make an offer? It’s everything you want it to be – except it’s in another city, state, or even country altogether. Around 11% of all job seekers in 2018 relocated. The next person to make the big move could be you!
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