Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #182

Texas Startup News, Opinion & Events in the Lone StartUP State
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VelocityTX Innovation Hub Receives City of San Antonio Incentives for Development — Link

- StartupsSanAntonio.com’s Iris Gonzalez

“The Velocity Center will house the new VelocityTX biomedical sciences innovation center. The approved package included a $750,000 Chapter 380 agreement or economic development grant with the rest structured as a TIRZ Development Agreement in the amount of up to $5 million over seven years to offset the cost of public improvements made to the Merchant’s Ice site.” — Iris Gonzalez

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• Firefly returns from the dead — with a larger rocket and lunar aspirations — Link
  - Ars Technica
• Is Austin Racist? Joah Spearman — Link
• In Defense of Valentines Day — Link
• How to Have a Smarter VC Strategy — Link
• The Austinites Guide to Better Dating — Link
• The British Chap Who’s Changing the U.S. Cell Phone Market from Austin — Link
  - Austin Startups
• Incentives or no, Amazon growing in Austin after nixing New York — Link
• Good news: Fewer people moved to Austin in 2017. Bad news: It was still a lot of people. — Link
  - Austin Monitor
• Austin could score Amazon jobs after HQ2 decision to ditch New York — Link
• 10 influential black Austinites to follow on Instagram right now — Link
  - Culture Map Austin
• YETI Adds eCommerce Expert To Board — Link
• Houston’s Automated Voice & Data Solutions Acquired By Avtex — Link
• Samsung To Open Retail Store In Houston — Link
• Pinpoint Picks Up $13.5M For Software Analytics — Link
• MyFitnessPal Information Put Up For Sale By Hackers, Millions Of Hacked Accounts — Link
• HighRadius Taps AI For Accounts Receivables Management — Link
• CrowdOut Capital Expands To Dallas — Link
• Indeed Appoints New CEO — Link
• Pivot3 Names Sales VP — Link
• Bill.com Sets Up Shop In Houston, Plans Hiring Push — Link
• Bumble Rolls Out New Spotlight Feature — Link
• StreedCred Dangles $50K In Bitcoin For Mapping Out Austin — Link
  - Texas Tech Pulse
• Emergency Services Cloud Software Maker RapidDeploy Nets $12M — Link
• Funds for Richard’s Rainwater, New CPRIT Executive, & More TX Tech — Link
  - Xconomy’s Angela Shah and David Holley
• San Antonio’s venture-capital investments lag, but ‘climate here is changing’ — Link
  - San Antonio Express-News
• 10 Austin Makers to Watch | Indeed’s New CEO — Link
• How Bootstrapped Invoiced Is Growing Like a VC-Backed Startup — Link
• Pinpoint Launches its Platform with $13.5M in New Funding — Link
• Rank & Style: How a Dynamic Austin Trio is Curating Fashion with Data — Link
• Report: Austin Startup Investment Hit Historic Levels in 2018 — Link
  - AustinInno’s Brett Wistrom
• Third annual Improve UT Challenge accepts applications — Link
• UT power plant makes a lot of energy but which buildings require the most? — Link
• Jackbox Games provides game night alternative — Link
• The forbidden fruit of the film industry: inside Rotten Tomatoes — Link
• ‘Black Panther’ Oscar nominations break barriers in black representation — Link
• UT Lecturer talks food technology at Austin forum — Link
• Harry Ransom Center hosts new exhibition, “The Rise of Everyday Design” — Link
• Tinder serves as ultimate dating detector — Link
• UT student keeps collection of vinyl records worth $12,600 — Link
• Student drops UT for startup advertising agency — Link
• Aerospace engineer shoots for the stars with fellowship — Link
• SafeHorns wins $20,000, plans to invest in safety — Link
  - The Daily Texan
• Five Reads: After Parkland — Link
• SXSW Startups: Hendrix.ai — Link
• SXSW Startups: Supportiv — Link
• SXSW Startups: TransferFi — Link
• SXSW Startups: Eggschain — Link
• SXSW Startups: LinkDyn Robotics — Link
• SXSW Startups: Horizon — Link
• SXSW Startups: Fantag — Link
• The 50 Top Startups at SXSW 2019 — Link
• On Feb 13: A Love Letter to Austin — Link
• SXSW Office Hours & Meet Ups — Link
• How To Not Let Your Phone Die at SXSW — Link
• Keynotes Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, T Bone Burnett, Kara Swisher & More Join SXSW 2019 — Link
  - SXSW’s Hugh Forrest
• Pinpoint scores $13.5M Series A to measure how well engineering teams… — Link
• Amazon doubles down on Austin, win Bitcoin for highlighting your fave… — Link
• In it to win it: How 5 Austin tech companies define and celebrate… — Link
• Beyond the technical: The traits that help engineers at 5 Austin… — Link
• RapidDeploy follows move to Austin with $12M Series A — Link
• This Austin startup wants to make workers’ comp more accessible — Link
  - BuiltinAustin’s Katie Fustich & Kelly O’Halloran
• This is Austin: Lani Rosales, Founder of Austin Digital Jobs & COO of The American Genius — Link
• One state could make it illegal to ask a job applicant’s age, graduation dates — Link
• Don’t buy the hype that Google’s $13B investment is about creating US jobs — Link
• Personal finance steps every freelancer must take to avoid ruin — Link
• A more environmentally sensitive Pantone color of the year — Link
• Video marketing is here to stay — 5 ways to change your SEO strategy — Link
• Delivery startups skim customer tips to pay employees #wth — Link
• Fallout from Facebook’s shady program spying on children — Link
  - The American Genius
• Investors with an eye on Austin move to Texas — Link
• With Facebook on board, downtown Austin’s Third + Shoal tower could sell for record price — Link
• Get career advice from 41 of Austin’s most successful women at Mentoring Monday 2019 — Link
• When KFC’s top chef needed inspiration for innovation, he found some in Austin — Link
• Viewpoint: Startup scene needs to mind harassment — Link
• National Instruments hires first-ever chief marketer — Link
• Yeti Coolers hits new high on NYSE after surpassing Wall Street’s expectations — Link
• Google spending $13B to grow this year, including in Austin — Link
• Here’s what sitting in Austin traffic costs you — Link
• He was a public company CEO twice before age 30. Now he’s in the C-suite at Resideo. — Link
• Expert: Fix schools or ‘wolf is around the corner’ for economy — Link
• Indeed names new CEO — Link
• Whole Foods to raise prices on hundreds of items — Link
• RetailMeNot adds to executive team — Link
• After move from Africa to Austin, startup raises $12M — Link
• Sources: Amazon leases big chunk of high-rise under construction in Austin’s second downtown — Link
• How a small, local agency came up with the brand for Austin FC, the city’s first major league sports team — Link
• $20M gift to pay for major changes at Blanton Museum — Link
• In the money Feb. 11: More than $182M in funding deals in Austin, from CPG to software — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• Average hourly wage on the rise in Austin, Dallas Fed report says — Link
• Who is Jonathon Morgan? Austin researcher makes a name — and finds controversy — in cybersecurity world — Link
• Amazon cancels plans for HQ2 in New York. What does it mean for Austin? — Link
• Austin’s Indeed naming new CEO, but keeping same focus — get people hired — Link
• Whole Foods rolled back investment as it merged with Amazon. It’s back to business. — Link
• Austin’s RapidDeploy raises $12 million for growth — Link
• Austin’s RigUp could be among next ‘unicorn’ startups — Link
• Austin company’s cricket-based snacks make jump to H-E-B -
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  - Austin American-Statesman / 512Tech

SAN ANTONIO

• UTSA Startup Grind Chapter Launches with Lorenzo Gomez as Guest Speaker — Link
• VelocityTX Innovation Hub Receives City of San Antonio Incentives for Development — Link
• The IMG Studio Shapes Visitor Experiences at Convention Center with AR-Enabled Platform — Link
• San Antonio Startup Events for the Week of February 11, 2019 — Link
  - Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez
• VelocityTX Lands City Grant for “Innovation Center” Redevelopment — Link
• San Antonio Life Science Business Acelity Cuts 260 Jobs in Texas, NC — Link
  - Xconomy’s David Holley
• Robots Are Farmers, Too, 4-H and FFA ‘Agrobotics’ Competitors Show — Link
• Lyft Set to Enter Crowded Scooter Market on Wednesday — Link
• City to Provide ‘Disconnected Youth’ With Opportunity Pipeline at New Center — Link
• Food Manufacturer to Build $120M Facility at Brooks, Bring Hundreds of Jobs — Link
• City Tightens Regulations on Electric Scooters, Bikes — Link
• City Council Hears ConnectSA Briefing as Brockhouse, Perry Question Funding — Link
• Medical Device Company Acelity to Eliminate 200 Jobs in San Antonio — Link
• App, Community Buy-In Can Help Decrease Litter in San Antonio — Link
• Amazon HQ2: Texas Experience Shows Why New Yorkers Should Be Skeptical — Link
• - The Rivard Report
• Call for San Antonio Entrepreneurs: Register for H-E-B Primo Picks Quest for Texas — Link
• Ever Wonder What It’s Like to Be In a Scooter Accident? We Had a Physicist Break It Down (It’s Not Pretty) — Link
• Ending the Wild Ride: Council Approves Tougher Rules for Dockless Scooters in San Antonio — Link
  - San Antonio Current
• SA leaders look to recruit talent, startups at SXSW Interactive — Link
• Brooks draws world’s largest sous vide plant — Link
• City Council adopts more regulations for scooter industry — Link
• City Council approves millions in incentives for East Side innovation hub — Link
• When Google maps fall short: UTSA seeks new tech to navigate campus — Link
• SA tech startup aims to streamline property assessment appeals — Link
• Rackspace’s tech academy to accept GI Bill benefits for first time — Link
• City of SA mulls converting its vehicle fleet to electric — Link
• Local tech payment company raises $2M — Link
• Layoffs and Drones: Enthusiast-turned-entrepreneur finds growth in commercial use — Link
• StemBioSys strikes distribution deal with California company — Link
• SA biotech expanding reach north — Link
• Czech company CEO shares US HQ plans in San Antonio — Link
• Executive Q&A: Red Robin CEO on women in C-Suite, the future of chain restaurants and her years at Trinity — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal’s Kristen Mosbrucker

• Dallas to launch smart cities incubator — Link
  - Smart Cities Dive
• Embracing the Workplace of the Future — Link
• Amazon Bails on New York, But It is Unlikely That Dallas Is Back in the Running for HQ2 — Link
  - D Magazine
• Dallas could score Amazon jobs after HQ2 decision to ditch New York — Link
• Texas startup drives travel to next level with rentable Teslas — Link
• Here how’s to get a Google Home Hub, absolutely free — Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
• Texas: Prepare for slow growth in M&A? — Link
• Dallas company aiming to modernize parking lands $13M in new funding — Link
• Looking back: Photos from the 2019 Minority Business Leader Awards — Link
• Amazon’s decision to split HQ2, ditch New York could boost Dallas’ chances — Link
• Amazon just killed HQ2 in New York. Here’s what that means for Dallas — Link
• Get to know the DBJ’s 2019 Minority Business Leader Awards — Link
• DEC unveils new Dallas hub focused on smart cities, gets hand from Microsoft, AT&T — Link
• This DFW executive has had a lifelong fascination with managing money, wealth creation — Link
• How Ana Rodriguez is shaping the multicultural leadership pipeline — Link
• Her goal? Showing women that owning an IT company is attainable — Link
• How Omar Jahwar is guiding social transformation through his nonprofit — Link
• From call center to corporate, meet AT&T’s Mohammed Farshori — Link
• How she’s priming the workforce pump for Baylor Scott & White Health — Link
• For DFW Airport’s diversity programs, ‘growth means continued and new business opportunities’ — Link
• Equinix is investing $138M at Dallas Infomart site for new data center facility — Link
• With $76B in economic impact and counting, here’s where AllianceTexas is headed next — Link
• Crowd-sourced business lender taps local PE exec to run new Dallas office — Link
• DFW tech company accelerates growth with ‘forgotten’ people, aims to add about 200 workers this year — Link
• Why North Texas CIOs need to keep a sharp eye on future — Link
• Jared Sine leads Match’s ‘world class’ legal department — Link
• Overwatch League inks Coca-Cola, Toyota, T-Mobile as sponsors — Link
• American Airlines offering new amenity kits for premium passengers — Link
• Dallas program offering tuition-free bachelor’s degrees hits 16,000 pledges — Link
• JPMorgan Chase launches loan fund to boost minority entrepreneurs — Link
• Monday Money: Dallas biopharma startup that works on nano level aims big on new fundraising round — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal
• Meet the Innovators: Veena Somareddy, Neuro Rehab VR — Link
• Startup Funding: Who Got the Money in 2018 — Link
• Look Inside: VITAS Healthcare Opens New Hospice Care Facility in Dallas’ Southern Sector — Link
• Discovery: UTSW’s Autism-Related Disorder Breakthrough; Why UNTHSC Prescribed Escape Rooms — Link
• Q+A: GoodWork’s Amy King on Bringing Sustainability and Wellness to Coworking — Link
• Dallas Startup With the ‘World’s First Transparent Marketplace’ Helps Businesses Cut Costs — Link
• DHD Films Shows Off Group VR in Dallas Showcase — Link
• Follow the Money: ReCode Nets $1M, Monarc Gets $700K, PanOptis Makes Exit — Link
• The DEC to ‘Innov8te’ With New Smart Cities Incubator That Supports Emerging Tech — Link
• Coworking Grows Up: Shared Space Is One of North Texas’ Hottest Placemaking Tools — Link
• Inclusive Kanarys Platform Raises $575K to Bring Advanced Tech to Social Enterprise — Link
• Meet the Innovators: Corey Clark, BALANCED Media Technology — Link
• Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 5 — Link
• Look Inside: 2019 Dallas Innovates Magazine Reception — Link
• Q+A: Stackpath Takes Users Closer to the ‘Edge’ — Link
• Meet the Innovators: Brig. Gen. Michael W. Miller, Viziv Technologies — Link
• DI People: OrderMyGear, Modo, Compass Datacenters Make Leadership Moves — Link
• Elbit Systems of America is Upgrading Border Control — Link
• Redfin Announces DFW Expansion, Launch of RedfinNow Cash Purchase Service — Link
• SMU, LIFT Team Wins $2.5M in Adult Literacy XPRIZE Competition — Link
• Atos Ramps Up Cybersecurity Protection for Healthcare Organizations — Link
• Angie’s List Parent Acquires Dallas-based Fixd Repair — Link
• UNT Shakes Up Retail with Tech‑Focused Degree Program — Link
  - Dallas Innovates
• Athlete investor-funded Admiral Capital makes another play in the D-FW real estate market — Link
• Coworking firm Venture X jumps to Frisco with new deal — Link
• Amazon cancels HQ2 in New York City; Dallas, Austin could get more jobs at existing hubs — Link
• Angie’s List parent company buys Dallas home repair and warranty startup Fixd — Link
• Infomart owners gearing up for $138 million data center expansion — Link
• Renting with Airbnb can be lucrative in Texas, but it also might be raising housing costs — Link
  - Dallas Morning News

• Announcing our TMCx8 Digital Health Cohort! — Link
• TMCxpo: Luma Health — Link
• TMCxpo: GiantLeap — Link
• TMCxpo: DosentRx — Link
• TMCxpo: BetterConsult — Link
• TMCxpo: Meru Health — Link
• - TMCx
• Startup Security — Link
  - The Cannon Blog
• Houston Health IT Firm Decisio Forms Partnership with GE Healthcare — Link
• Finding True Love Can Be Ruff, But This Startup Could Have Your Match — Link
  - Xconomy’s Angela Shah
• Entrepreneurial Opportunity of the Year Contest — Apply
• How The Cannon’s managing director uses her entrepreneurial background to support local startups — Link
• After nationwide search, Palo Alto fintech co. chooses Houston for new office — Link
• Houston energy giants partner with VC, accelerator to identify industry tech needs — Link
• Nashville-based tech co. to add 430 jobs in Houston, moves to bigger office — Link
• Houston med device co. closes $10.4M IPO, to begin trading on Nasdaq — Link
• California boutique investment bank sets up Houston office — Link
• What Spec’s owner thinks of keeping liquor stores open later — Link
• Samsung Experience Store to debut in Houston next week — Link
• HBJ adds fastest-growing companies List for The Woodlands, North Houston — Link
• Houston-based plastic logistics co. to open another 337,000-SF facility in Baytown — Link
• Houston-based seafood and steak chain suffers data breach — Link
• Technology and employee expectations continue to change the work environment — panel discussion — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• Houston hangover pill startup seen on Shark Tank toasts a new name — Link
• Texas startup drives travel to next level with rentable Teslas — Link
• Houston-based pitch contest announces 2019 finalists ahead of SXSW competition — Link
• Houston biotech company aims to enhance oncology treatment of highly resistant cancers — Link
• 5 top trending innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• How new technologies are empowering financial advisers — Link
• 5 Houston medical device companies changing the industry — Link
• How a Houston entrepreneur is bringing design to startups — and making the world a better place — Link
• This growing Houston company is revolutionizing the way new mothers pump in the office — Link
• Expanding fintech company bets on Houston for second office — Link
• 5 things to know about TMCx’s newest cohort — Link
• Fact or fiction? Houston blockchain expert addresses common misconceptions — Link
• Houston entrepreneur expands her passion project to international franchise business — Link
• 2 UH scientists receive prestigious national recognition for fostering innovation — Link
• Houston homeowners first in Texas to showcase Zillow’s new cash offer homebuying program — Link
• 3 Houston energy tech innovators to know this week — Link
  - InnovationMap / Culture Map Houston
• Daniel Cotlar — COO of Apartment Butler — Link
• Regina Vatterott — COO of EllieGrid — Link
  - HighDrive Network
• Vardi leading new initiative on technology, culture and society — Link
• Rice Magazine is out, and it’s ‘a big deal’ — Link
• Shaping light lets 2D microscopes capture 4D data — Link
• Better red than dread: Barrier keeps batteries safe — Link
• Laser-induced graphene gets tough, with help — Link
• Smalley-Curl Institute rewards top presenters — Link
• Lefty or righty molecules lend a hand to material structures — Link
• Working proteins make good use of frustration — Link
• Looking for love online may impact how humans evolve — Link
  - Rice University
• Asurion to double its Houston workforce to more than 800 employees — Link
• Austin-based RigUp on list of potential tech unicorns — Link
• The latest in sleep technologies to be presented in Houston — Link
• Amazon dumped New York, but cities still wooing the company — Link
• Wait a while before jumping aboard the 5G wireless train — Link
• In praise of user Apple groups — Link
• Drillinginfo rolls out ‘oilfield version of Zillow’ — Link
• Samsung Experience store to open in the Galleria — Link
• In the smartphone era, lithium for batteries is the new oil — Link
• Austin-based RigUp on list of potential tech unicorns — Link
• The latest in sleep technologies to be presented in Houston — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog
• Six Things to Do to Create Change and Opportunity — Link
  - The McAllen Chamber of Commerce

• How Software is Destroying Jobs and Improving our Lives — Michael Flaxman — Link
• Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination — Texas Monthly’s Eric Benson — Link
• Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future? — Both Sides of the Table’s Mark Suster — Link
• Funding Rounds May Be Up, But Investor Confidence Is Down — Crunchbase’s Mary Ann Azevedo & Alex Wilhelm — Link
• DoorDash Said To Be Raising $500M At $6B+ Valuation — Crunchbase’s Mary Ann Azevedo & Savannah Dowling — Link
• #1712 How Nathan Latka Went from Podcast Nobody to $1m in Sponsorships, 10m Downloads — Mixergy — Podcast
• What we did when our investors told us we weren’t working hard enough (1/4) — CharlieHR’s Rob O’Donovan — Link
• 3D-Printed Buildings Catch On — Builder Online — Link
• Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do — Thom Singer The FreshBooks Story with Mike McDerment — Podcast
• How the Sharing Economy Is Transforming the Short-term Rental Industry — Knowledge@Wharton — Link
• For these angel investors, diversity means more than just white women — FastCompany’s Lydia Dishman — Link
• How business-savvy scientists can find success in the risky start-up world — Link
• Joe Montana Dishes on Investing and His NFL Days — Link
• Member Personas for the Coworking Space — Link
• Startup wants to take guesswork out of buying cowboy boots — Link
• With Silicon Valley Just About Maxed Out, Tech Companies Look Elsewhere to Expand — Barron’s — Link
• Maana Named Investment of the Year by Global Corporate Venturing — Link
• What CMOs Should Tell Board Members (and What Boards Should Be Asking) — CMSWire’s Christine Crandell — Link
• Venture Capital vs. Private Equity: Understanding The Difference — Forbes Contributor Alejandro Cremades — Link
• How to Destroy America for $450,000 — Alexander Muse — Link
• Neiman Marcus’ innovation lab dissolves under CEO’s new strategy — Retail Dive — Link
• Interviews with the world’s best entrepreneurs — British GQ — Link
• Circular Economy — Gotham Gal — Link
• What we learned from Kara Swisher’s brutal interview with Jack Dorsey — Link
• Press Packs: Getting on the good side of journalists — Distilled — Link

Tech Events Network: Austin | Dallas | Houston | San Antonio

Capital Factory Presents Ask Me Anything with Venture Capitalist & Emerging Technology Founders
Tuesday February 19, 2019 4:00 PM — 6:30 PM CST
Accenture Houston Innovation Hub
1301 Fannin Suite 1900 Houston, TX 77002
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F*ckup Nights — Special Edition | Entrepreneurial Couples
by Impact Hub Houston + Creative Vida + FACC
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
Oakmont
1916 Baldwin St Houston, TX 77002
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Warecraft 2019: The Craft of Software and Hardware
Thursday, February 21, 2019 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM CST
Heath Software
1107 South 8th Street Austin, TX 78704
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Ask Me Anything with VC Chris Saum from Active Capital
Laura Lorek/Silicon Hills News
Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00 PM — 1:30 PM CST
Galvanize — Austin
119 Nueces Street Austin, TX 78701
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Think & Drink (Coffee): How to Supercharge Your Morning Routine
Hosted by Reset
Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 8:30 AM — 9:30 AM
Tillery Kitchen and Bar
3201 East Cesar Chavez, Austin, Texas 78702
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Civic Innovators of San Antonio — First Gathering
Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 6 PM — 8 PM
Burleson Yard Beer Garden
430 Austin St, San Antonio, Texas 78215
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Baylor New Venture Competition
February 21–23
Baylor University
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Technology Advisors Group
Wi-Fi 6: Bridge for Digital Transformation
Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance
Friday, February 22nd 25th at 0700
Calavista Software
3700 North Capital of Texas Hwy, Suite 450
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Alice’s Houston Founders Meetup
Friday February 22, 2019
8:00am — 9:15am CST
1500 E Memorial Loop Dr
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Open Project Night — 9th Edition
Impact Hub Houston
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6 PM — 8 PM CST
The Black Sheep Agency
611 W 22nd St, Ste 201, Houston, Texas 77008
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[RE]verse Pitch — Opening Pitch Event
Tuesday February 26, 2019 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM (CST)
Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX, 78701
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Startup Coffee Connect
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 10 AM — 11 AM
UT Student Activity Center
2201 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78712
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Houston Cyber Summit
Wednesday February 27, 2019
The George R. Brown Convention Center
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Techstars — How to Build a Successful Startup Ecosystem in Your City Webinar
Thursday February 28th 2 pm CST
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DFW Open Data Day
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 8 AM — 8 PM
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
1515 Young Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
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Outlier Podcast Festival
May 17th 6:30pm — May 18th 4:00pm
Galvanize Austin
119 Nueces St, Austin, TX 78701
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NRLC Workshop: Pretotyping & Prototyping with Kara Palamountain
by Lilie: Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00 PM — 5:30 PM CST
Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
6100 Main Street Cambridge Office Building, Suite 130 Houston, TX 77005
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Austin Impact Hub Accelerator Info Session
Tuesday February 19 at 9:30 PM — Feb 20 at 10:30 AM
Impact Hub Austin
411 W. Monroe St., Austin, Texas 78704
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Innovation Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 6 PM — 7:15 PM
UT Media Innovation
Belo Center for New Media
300 W Dean Keeton St, Austin, Texas 78705
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Explore Your Passion
Hosted by HYPE — Houston Young Professionals & Entrepreneurs
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 5:30 PM — 7:30 PM
701 Avenida de las Americas, Suite 900, Houston, Texas 77002
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Big Ass Social Happy Hour #BASHH
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM CST
Hangar Lounge
318 Colorado Street Austin, TX 78701
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Dad 2.0 Summit
Thursday, February 21- 23
The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio
420 W Market Street San Antonio, TX, 78205
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The Big Ass Tale of Bootstrapping from Zero to $500M
Hosted by Team Austin
Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM CST
Relay Coworking
1023 Springdale Road
Austin, TX 78721
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BossbabesATX February ’19 Community Meet-Up
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30 PM — 9 PM
The Women’s Museum
3800 Parry Ave, Dallas, Texas 75226Robert B. Rowling Hall
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Hook & Pitch
by Nectar House & Amazing at Home
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM CST
Launch SA
600 Soledad Street San Antonio, TX 78205
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TechTalk with Hugh Forrest, SXSW
Hosted by Austin Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 8 AM — 9:30 AM
Austin Chamber of Commerce
535 E 5th St, Austin, Texas 78701
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1 Year Pheramor Anniversary + Debut of WeHaveChemistry
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 5 PM — 9 PM
103 Copper Stream Ln, Richmond, TX 77406–3673, United States
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Technology Startup & Investor Showdown
by Fruition Technology Labs
Friday, March 15, 2019 1:00 PM — 5:00 PM CDT
16800 Imperial Valley Dr Houston, TX 77060
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Getting It Together in the Early-Stage — March 2019 (6 sessions)
Hosted by Impact Hub Austin
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 9:15 AM — 11:45 AM
Impact Hub Austin
411 West Monroe Street, Austin, Texas 78704
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Open Government Symposium 2019
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