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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Dallas Startup Happy Hour is tomorrow @ 5pm! 27, at Campbell Centre, will include Blake Burris of CoHabitat ; Gabriella Draney of Tech Wildcatters ; Danica Mathes of Ignite Dallas ; and Joey Pomerenke of Startup Weekend. Blake has long been involved in the Dallas startup scene, having helped organize the first BarCamp Dallas in 2005.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Ever play Zynga’s “Words with Friends” or any of their “with Friends” games? Didn’t come out of the SF facility.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect. Brad was originally from Dallas and his father is still a practicing doctor there. It was a great breakfast.

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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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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas. My partner Dave Jilk, also a full-stack programmer (and a much better one than me), helped immensely as he completely grokked relational database theory.

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The Accelerator comes to the Dallas Entrepreneur Center

Austin Startup

The Dallas Entrepreneur Center (The DEC) is welcoming us to Dallas at the West End and soon the other locations such as Addison and Denton. They also have access to work from Capital Factory in Austin and tap into our network for introductions to investors and strategic corporate partners.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

It is actually half Chinese: while based in Dallas, Texas, it has main offices also in Wuhan and Shanghai. You will not find a massive volume of users, but maybe you will find better partners. One company may be looking for a distributor, another for a contract manufacturer, yet another for a partner in a joint venture.

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