Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #227

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• CollBox Raises $1M in Seed Funding Round — Link
• How I Learned to Stop Being Jealous of Other Entrepreneurs’ Success — Suzanna Cameron — Link
• Smart Home Experiment May Change How We Conserve Water, Build and Live — Link
  - Texas Public Radio
• Coworking space Industrious opens in downtown Austin — Link
  - Community Impact Newspaper
• 2019: Austin’s year in review — Link
  - Austin Monitor
• Austin Startups: The Top Venture Capital Funding Deals and Acquisitions in December — Link
• The Most-Read Tech and Startup Stories of Austin Inno in 2019 — Link
  - Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
• Free shipping is everywhere…how can small businesses keep up? — Link
• Worker badges track location, posture, potty breaks, and more — Link
• Return policies are getting more strict, so act quickly — Link
• Gender discrimination is still out there, even blatantly in job descriptions — Link
• Changing passwords should be your new years resolution — Link
  - American Genius
• Ideas to Invoices Top 10 Podcasts for 2019 — Link
• Silicon Hills News’ Top 10 Stories of 2019 — Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek
• Jan 7 Austin Forum Talks Tech Trends — Link
  - SXSW’s Hugh Forrest
• Top UT Austin Rankings of 2019 — Link
• Study to Develop a New Economic Growth Model for Rural Communities in West Texas — Link
• VIDEO: UT Austin 2019 Year in Review — Link
• Top UT Austin Research of 2019 — Link
• Code for Empathy — Link
• 3D Print a Piece of Mars for the Holidays — Link
• National Academy of Inventors Names UT Austin Professor 2019 Fellow — Link
• How We Transport Water in Our Bodies Inspires New Water Filtration Method — Link
• First-of-Its-Kind Master’s in Design in Health Launches at UT Austin — Link
• Longhorn Laureates — Link
• Research shows ramping up carbon capture could be key to mitigating climate change — Link
• Let’s Drill For Heat Instead of Oil — Link
  - University of Texas
• These Austin Tech Companies Raised Over $1.7B in 2019 Funding — Link
• Welcome Aboard: These Austin Companies Added New Execs in December — Link
• How GoDaddy, Red Ventures and LogicMonitor Scaled in 2019 — Link
• How Square Root Takes an Empathetic Approach to Customer Success — Link
• Weekly Refresh: SecureLink Expands its Executive Team and Ender Gains… — Link
• How These 6 Austin Tech Companies Give Back to Their Communities — Link
  - BuiltinAustin
• How small startups can attract big talent — Link
• So long, 2019; here’s to an auspicious 2020 — Link
• Journal Profile: How Wade Lombard brought his business back from the brink — Link
• Zillow predicts Austin will have nation’s hottest housing market in 2020 — Link
• 20 people to watch in 2020 — Link
• XBiotech sells new drug candidate for $750M to Johnson & Johnson subsidiary — Link
• Capital Gains: New Miami flight, burgers to replace tacos & ABOR settles — Link
• The decade is over but the population explosion rolls on — Link
• Car2go to lay off 47 in Austin — Link
• Austin’s biggest stories of 2019 — Link
• Austin real estate deals: More coworking on east side, office space downtown, retail in suburbs — Link
• Texas college grads find big money in oil, computers — Link
• In the money Dec. 30: More than $284M in deals — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• Get ready to Bumble: Experts say this Sunday is your best time to swipe — Link
• HIGH SPEED, HIGH IMPACT? How Google Fiber’s arrival changed things in Austin — Link
• Austin’s economy in 2020: Expect solid growth, but below boom-town pace — Link
• Dell’s new laptop line includes AI components — Link
• Dallas Fed: Growth in Texas service sector accelerates, retailers optimistic — Link
• Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin artists explore new meaning in data — Link
• Wait, that really WAS Sharon Stone on Bumble — Link
• Car-sharing company car2go cutting 47 jobs in Austin — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

• The Playbook — Link
  - Geekdom Funds’ Michael Girdley
• Four Ways the San Antonio Startup Ecosystem Changed in 2019 + What to Watch For in 2020 — Link
  - San Antonio Startups
• DreamWeek Welcomes Rwandan Humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina as Keynote Speaker for 2020 Event — Link
• Texas Pot Possession Cases Have Dropped Since Lawmakers Legalized Hemp — Link
• In Memoriam: Saying Goodbye to the Innovators, Creators, Movers and Shakers San Antonio and Texas Lost in 2019 — Link
  - San Antonio Current
• Putting 2020 into Focus: San Antonio’s Leaders Share Resolutions for the New Year — Link
• The Rivard Report‘s 2019 in Photographs — Link
• In Memoriam: Remembering the Prominent San Antonians Who Died in 2019 — Link
  - The Rivard Report
• SA coding school wants to take all of Texas under its wing — Link
• Meet SABJ’s new real estate and retail reporter — Link
• U.S. Chamber backs Amrock in $700M HouseCanary tech dispute — Link
• EDF boss on how San Antonio will court companies in 2020 — Link
• A look at San Antonio through the Business Journal lens in 2019 — Link
• These San Antonio public companies have the most debt (slideshow) — Link
• Report: Majority of business leaders expect to be more profitable next year, still worry about an economic slowdown — Link
• SA wind energy company slates new projects for 2020 — Link
• The business stories that shaped 2019 — Link
• San Antonio companies raised billions in equity funding this year — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• Local Drone Services Company Helps Launch Hydrogen Propelled Craft Premiering at CES 2020 — Link
• Fort Worth E-Bikes to Be Free First Fridays of Each Month — Link
• Follow the Money: DFW Startup Funding, M&As and VC Activity in December — Link
• Making Moves: DFW Tech Hires and Departures in December — Link
• Meet the 29 North Texas Companies Bringing Their Tech to CES 2020 — Link
  - NTXInno’s Kevin Cummings
• Energy Innovation Capital Accelerator Sessions at the EnerCom Dallas Energy Investment Conference February 11–12, 2020 — Link
• School for aspiring code-writing ninjas powers up new Frisco location — Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
• Discovery: UNTHSC Grad Joins ‘Disease Detectives,’ UTSW Studies Plant-Rich Diet’s Effect on Pathogen — Link
  - Dallas Innovates
• By working with Silicon Valley clients, recruiting firm Will Reed wants help Dallas land more tech hubs — Link
  - The Dallas Morning News
• D CEO Most Read Real Estate Posts of 2019 — Link
• Nominate: D CEO’s 2020 Financial Executives Awards — Link
• D Magazine Online Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2019 and the Decade — Link
• D Magazine Art Director Kevin Goodbar’s Favorite Photos of 2019 — Link
  - D Magazine
• Form-D Friday: Revere Capital raises more than $100M, focusing on acquiring debt and specialty financing — Link
• Dallas health care company has raised $26 million as it looks to leverage AI — Link
• Business Journal adding new digital, Weekly Edition features — Link
• Could CyrusOne acquire an Asian data center company for $2 billion this year? — Link
• Here are the biggest travel technology trends for 2020 — Link
• Dallas company looks to stamp out harassment, discrimination in the workplace — Link
• Looking for a new job this year? Here are the top DFW companies — Link
• Year in Review: The stories that shaped DFW in 2019 (a visual tour) — Link
• 5 social impact startups to watch in North Texas — Link
• DBJ 2019 events year in review: Most Admired CEO, Best Places to Work and CFOs of the Year — Link
• OrderMyGear’s CEO is stoking growth as company looks beyond schools to woo customers — Link
• North Texas looks to tech to solve transportation issues — Link
• DBJ 2019 events year in review: Women in Technology, Middle Market 50 and Women in Business — Link
• Oilfield service firms predict 2020 spending cuts — Link
• Snap Kitchen CEO Jon Carter takes healthy eating — and living — seriously — Link
• This nonprofit is bringing the concept of microcredit to low-income individuals in Dallas — Link
• Why Codeup is bringing its software bootcamp to North Texas — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal

• Training Houston’s Next A-list Crew will Boost the Local Economy — Video
• A Lawful Moment from Baker Botts — Intellectual Property Strategies — Link
  - The Cannon Blog
• Houston startup uses artificial intelligence to bring its clients better business forecasting calculations — Link
• 2 Houston startups land multimillion-dollar venture capital investments — Link
• Local bank commits to Houston startup scene by setting up shop in The Cannon — Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• 10+ can’t-miss Houston business and innovation events for January — Link
• Here’s why you should pay attention to 5G in Houston — Link
• Editor’s Picks: Top 10 Houston startup feature stories of 2019 — Link
• What Houston startups can learn from the power of the pivot — Link
• Top 5 Houston innovation lifestyle stories for 2019 — Link
• Texas recognized as second best state for business, while Houston expected to see key economic growth — Link
• 5 Houston innovators to know in 2020 — Link
• - InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
• Year in Review: Building Houston’s tech ecosystem — Link
• Behind the deal: Houston’s growth brought this furniture retailer to town — Link
• Things to Watch in 2020: Houston’s trend threads to follow in the new year — Link
• Houston’s Things to Watch in 2020: Commercial real estate and residential real estate — Link
• Houston’s Things to Watch in 2020: Retail — Link
• Houston’s Things to Watch in 2020: Oil and gas — Link
• Houston’s Things to Watch in 2020: Education — Link
• Houston’s Things to Watch in 2020: Innovation, VC, banking, hospitals, law firms — Link
• 2020 traffic projects: Here’s what Houston drivers can expect — Link
• Iconic Houston grocery store to close in mid-January — Link
• Newly public Houston solar co. raises $150M for growth — Link
• Houston billionaire’s restaurant co. reports data breach — Link
• Here’s how much square footage $250K will get homebuyers in Houston, elsewhere — Link
• In memoriam: Houston business leaders we lost in 2019 — Link
• Year in review: Weatherford was Houston’s largest 2019 bankruptcy — Link
• 3 questions with the new CEO of Houston’s Memorial Hermann Health System — Link
• Why this Houston power tech co. is spending on R&D, not M&A — Link
• BBVA, Briggs & Veselka leaders selected to national list of influential finance executives — Link
• The business stories that shaped Houston in 2019 — Link
• Money Monday: Cancer-focused VC fund raises money, Houston PE firm makes investment — Link
• Year in Review: Houston area sees major university donations in 2019 — Link
• Downtown Houston food hall operator to replace EaDo eatery, plans new concepts — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• How the U.S. giving up control of the Panama Canal boosted the Houston economy — Link
• Gym class without the gym? With technology, it’s catching on — Link
• U.S. strike on Iranian leader sparks fears of cyberattacks — Link
• Houston company working on 1st 5G Permian oil rig — Link
• Tech resolutions for a safer, saner 2020 — Link
• How we survive the surveillance apocalypse — Link
• Othram applies DNA sequencing to aid investigations — Link
• UH professor harnesses the itty-bitty to make a big impact — Link
• AI can protect old equipment from attacks — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog
• Amazon’s 14 Principles of Leadership — Link
  - McCallen Chamber of Commerce

• The Race to the Bottom in Startup Law — Silicon Hills Lawyer’s José Ancer — Link
• How to Successfully Facilitate a Meeting — Voltage Control’s Douglas Ferguson — Link
• What Casino Marketing Can Teach You About Building Long-Term Customer Relationships — Marketing Insiders Group’s Michael Brenner — Link
• Female Founders Are Changing the World. Please Stop Calling Them ‘Mompreneurs’ and ‘She-E-Os’ — Inc. Magazine’s Leigh Buchanan — Link
• How I Learned to Stop Being Jealous of Other Entrepreneurs’ Success — Suzanna Cameron — Link
• How To Build A Facebook Community in 2020 — Forbes Women Contributor — Stephanie Burns — Link
• It’s 2020 and you’re in the future — Tim Urban — Link
• Travis Kalanick and the four paths of ousted tech founders — CNBC’s Matt Rosoff — Link
• The Comprehensive Guide to Speaking at Technology Conferences in 2020 — Karl Hughes — Link
• As Entrepreneurs Focus Ahead, We Look Back At Some Highs And Lows Of 2019 In Black Tech — Link
• Seda Goff: Why women veteran startups are the next big thing in entrepreneurship (and how we support them) — Fox Business — Link
• I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. — Ross LaJeunesse — Link
• Life in 2030 — Andreesen Horowitz’s Frank Chen — Link
• How the Digg team was acquihired. — Will Larson — Link
• Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble? Company denies it, but empty shelves tell story — SF Chronicle’s Shwanika Narayan — Link
• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea — Link
• boldstart 2019 recap and what’s 🔥 in enterprise 2020 — Link
• California’s New Independent Contractor Law Should Be Noted By Employers Everywhere — Link
• 12 big things: A wild, weird, WeWork-y year — PitchBook — Link
• Boring Trade Show Businesses Are Minting Billions. Here’s How. — Trends by The Hustle — Link
• Investors Research: Basic Understanding Before Fundraising — Institutional Investors — Link

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Tuesday, January 7th — 9th 2020
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Austin Technology Council Presents
Women In Tech: Negotiating Your Salary
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 07:30 AM — 09:00 AM
Calavista
3700 N Capital of Texas Hwy #450, Austin, TX 78746
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Story Marketing: Your Message is in Your Mess
Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
The Riveter Austin
1145 West 5th Street Austin, TX 78703
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Austin Fast Start: Consumer Packaged Goods Pitch Event
January 9, 2020 5:30 PM — 7:00 PM (CST)
H-E-B and Favor Eastside Tech Hub
2416 E 6th St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
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Capital Factory Roadshow at DreamWeek with Accenture
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00 PM — 4:45 PM CST
Accenture
6415 Babcock Suite 100 San Antonio, Texas 78249
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Latinx Trends in 2020
Presented by Big Oak Tree Media
Friday, January 17, 2020 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (CST)
Austin Public Library, Carver Branch
1161 Angelina Street Austin, TX 78702
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Houston Day of Code
Saturday, January 18, 2020 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM CST
Improving
10111 Richmond Avenue #Suite 100 Houston, TX 77042
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AustinInno’s State of Innovation: Startups To Watch 2020
Thursday January 30, 2020 4:00pm — 6:30pm
Hotel ZaZa Austin
400 Lavaca Street Austin, TX 78701
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SocialAmplified: Build Your Tribe
Hosted by Social Amplified and Communities That Convert
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 4 PM — 5 PM
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Top Tech Trends for 2020 (And Beyond)
The Austin Forum on Technology & Society
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 6:15 PM — 7:30 PM CST
Austin Central Library
710 West Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78701
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Welcome Preston James of DivInc!
by Startup Grind Austin
Wednesday January 8th 6 PM
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Austin Texas 78701
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Get It Together: Gain Compentency as a Startup Founder (ONLINE)
Hosted by Ada Ryland Consulting
Friday, January 10, 2020 at 9 AM — 12 PM
Impact Hub Austin
411 W. Monroe Street, Austin, Texas 78704
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WORK: A Conference For Creatives And Entrepreneurs
Hosted by BossBabes ATX
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 9:30 AM — 6 PM
Robert B. Rowling Hall
300 Martin Luther King Blvd W, Austin, Texas 78701
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Bunker Connect Austin: A Community of Resources for New Year’s Resolutions
Monday, January 13, 2020 5:00 PM — 7:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Voltron, 1st Floor Austin, TX 78701
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xTech 3.0 Accelerator — Defense Innovation Ecosystem Immersion Day
by FedTech
Thursday, January 16, 2020 1:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Austin Texas 78701
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MassChallenge Texas in Austin Launch 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:30 PM — 7:30 PM CST
South Congress Hotel
1603 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78704
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