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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

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Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. legal, bank accounts, government filings, etc) behind setting up a startup. Get to know the founders. And your least?

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

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Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston.

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SXSW Startups: Fluidity

Austin Startup

Based on feedback from government bodies, drone organizations, leading manufacturers and others, we know we’ve solved for something that was a significant problem but that was never addressed. Tell us about the startup ecosystem in Houston, where Fluidity is based. Houston is ripe with innovation?—?it’s

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Citefull

Austin Startup

Citefull Co-Founders: CSO Crystal Houston and CEO Kyle Grone The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 According to a Pew Research Center study , Americans rate fake news as a larger problem than racism, climate change, or terrorism, one that is eroding people’s confidence in government and each other.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Previously, Shamina was Mastercard’s Global Director of Government Services and Solutions where she worked to digitize social subsidy programs in over 40 countries. As the third U.S.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. I get my healthcare insurance through Vox Media, so I actually don’t know the cost of my healthcare, or the government-. Bill Gurley : Great. Bill Gurley : Oh, absolutely.