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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

Talent may be evenly distributed but opportunity most definitely is not. Of our 61 Accelerator startups in 2017, 8% had at least one Black founder, 13% had at least one Female founder, 16% had at least one Asian founder, 21% had at least one LatinX founder. We need more Women founders getting funded.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. THE CASE FOR PURSUING AN MBA.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. THE CASE FOR PURSUING AN MBA.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. The DEC and Trey Bowles in Dallas, Station Houston and John Reale in Houston, Geekdom and Lorenzo Gomez III in San Antonio, and Georgia Thomsen and Capital Factory in Austin.

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Chargify Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer

Austin Startup

Matt has an impressive reputation for leading high-growth teams that scale, transform, and innovate at fintech companies,” said Michael Klett, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Chargify. Downs will be based in Colorado and split his time between Chargify’s Texas headquarters and SaaSOptics’ Georgia headquarters respectively.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Ahmaud Arbery: A 25-year-old black man who was pursued by armed white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood, and murdered while jogging. McDade was allegedly killed by police. Three other police officers watched and did not intervene. Mr. Floyd was 46 years old. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose.

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Sentenai

Seeing Both Sides

Today, we are announcing co-leading a $1.8m seed investment in Sentenai , an exciting machine learning company based in Boston, alongside our friends at Founder Collective, Project11 as well as a new local seed fund, Hyperplane. . We are excited to be in business with co-founders Rohit Gupta and Brendan Kohler.