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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Drew Houston. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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Texas Startups Roadshow Wrap-up

Austin Startup

Two robot buses full of dozens of venture capitalists and family office investors from around the world traveled for three days around the great state of Texas from Dallas to Houston to Austin. Houston is the US headquarters for about 25 oil & gas and energy companies?—?most Houston is also home to the Texas Medical Center?—?the

Texas 48
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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Yet amid this grim news, we also can’t underestimate the triumph of modern biology over a novel disease variant — enabling companies such as Moderna to develop a vaccine formulation in two days without physical access to live cultures, faster than even the virus itself traveled around the world. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years.

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$100,000 Defense Innovation Investment Challenge

Austin Startup

Capital Factory wants to help the Army deliver technology overmatch to warfighters by finding and investing in startups with “dual-use” solutions that were developed for the commercial industry but could also be used by the Army. The two topics for this challenge were selected from among the Army’s top six modernization priorities.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. million barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from Houston to New York. Artificial Intelligence & Data Sciences.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. The team maintains a development office in Lima, Peru which brings incredible talent and energy.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.