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Austin Startup
OCTOBER 19, 2019
He was completing his undergraduate studies with a major in Management Information Systems at the University of Texas and was aspiring to a management consulting position. Brett started his career in technology development at a large global management and was a very strong performer. I was one of his interviewers.
David Teten
AUGUST 20, 2019
Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.
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Austin Startup
AUGUST 10, 2017
Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.
Hearpreneur
JULY 30, 2016
I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). We have so many organizations that touch the home, yet in order to manage and run my home, I need to touch so many different types of companies.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2018
Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 19, 2017
I met Jessica Alter when was running FounderDating, which helped solo founders discover their perfect cofounders. Like many of us, the 2016 Presidential Election alarmed her, but unlike many of us, she’s doing something more than just rage tweeting. The Republicans outspend them 3:1 on just Google digital channels (2016).
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