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It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray movie where he had to repeat a single day over and over. My Groundhog Day looks like this: wake up, check email/Slack, breakfast, get the kids set up on their school work, Zoom Webinar (or three), lunch, another meeting or two, walk around the neighborhood with the family, dinner, then Netflix, and then another restless night of sleep. Rinse and Repeat. I’m grateful that this is our routine and it could be a lot worse — our family is gainfully employed at jobs we love and our kids are adjusting to life at home pretty well.

That’s not true for too many people. I’ve talked to a lot of my friends who are out looking for clients for their companies or new jobs for themselves, and it really is tough out there. Another friend used the term ‘Riding the Struggle Bus’ and that seems appropriate. While I stopped watching the news because there’s nothing ‘new’ about it right now, I do get to hear bits of good things with companies getting funded or new funds being raised. There is surely light at the end of the tunnel, we just don’t know how long that tunnel is from where we sit today. All I can offer those who are riding the struggle bus is that I’m always available to chat (in between webinars of course) if you need someone to listen — 713–569–3703 and marc.nathan@egannelson.com

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• Capital Factory Family Supports Stand With Austin Fund — Link
• Support Local Companies Affected by the Covid-19 Shutdow: Urban Betty & Austin Weird Homes
• Degree Analytics Announces $2.5M Series A — Link
• Exclusive: Gembah Secures $3.28M Seed Funding Round For Product Development Platform — Link
  - Crunchbase News’ Christine Hall
• Epicor Launches MeBeBot’s Intelligent Assistant, Providing Real-time Communications and Q&A — Link
• Gov. Abbott outlines plan to relax restrictions and gradually reopen Texas economy — Link
• CommUnityCare opens new drive-thru testing sites — Link
• A perfect storm: Covid-19, the census and redistricting — Link
• Travis County judge says he will open up mail-in voting during Covid-19 pandemic — Link
• City, chamber, downtown alliance working to assist small businesses amid Covid-19 restrictions — Link
• Amid historic oil bust, Texas regulators consider the once unthinkable: Keeping it in the ground — Link
• Austin, Travis County extend stay-at-home orders, which now require face coverings — Link
• City may begin evaluating creative spaces bond sites in June — Link
  - Austin Monitor
• SXSW 2020 Episodic Pilot Showcase Debuts on Vimeo — Link
  - SXSW
• How I Ended Up Stranded in Austin Running a Dating Show During COVID-19 — Link
  - Austin Startups
• Texas factory joins fight against COVID-19 with 3D reusable face masks — Link
  - Culture Map Austin
• Austin 3D-Printed Homes Startup ICON Featured on Apple TV+ Show — Link
• Austin Product Design and Manufacturing Startup Raises $3M From Local Investors — Link
• Report: Lyft is Adding Meal and Grocery Delivery for Organizations in Austin — Link
• A Growth Story: Austin’s Coder Raises $30M and Plans to Double Team — Link
• The Top 10 Austin Tech and Startup Funding Rounds of Q1 — Link
• Hub Map: A Guide to Boston and Cambridge Coworking Spaces — Link
• Kanthaka Leans Into Virtual Personal Training Sessions and ‘Mommy and Me’ Groups — Link
  - Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
• Quarantine may be the opportune time to take stock — Link
• VC firms must take a critical look at founder data to better understand funding disparities — Link
• COVID-19 is a VR gaming boom-VR chair startup raises $1.8 million — Link
• Enterprise was the golden calf, but startups look to SMBs for next boom — Link
• President’s ‘reopen America’ committee will fail without a well crafted social contract — Link
• Learning to love COVID-19-induced involuntary simplicity — Link
• Remotehour helps you keep an open-door policy despite working from home — Link
• Giant corporations and a gig economy do not mix — Link
• The strongest business leaders in the COVID-19 era might be startup companies — Link
• Verizon abandons paying customers over COVID-19 fears — Link
• Uber wants new worker classification for ‘flexibility,’ probably from the law — Link
• Creative ways to improve your cash flow despite a global pandemic (we’re serious) — Link
• ‘Who would take advantage of a pandemic to permanently reduce someone’s salary beyond that pandemic?’ — Link
• Send mass two-way communication with AlertMedia — Link
  - American Genius
• Students create inventory website, make grocery shopping during COVID-19 easier — Link
• UT students create HERE4UT to compile resources, foster community — Link
• UT-Austin lab uses 3D-printing resources to make face shields for health care workers — Link
• Gov. Abbott opens retail stores for limited services, loosens surgery restrictions — Link
• Seniors reflect on their last semester being cut short — Link
• RTF students’ thesis film productions disrupted by COVID-19 — Link
• Graduate students deserve same lowered summer tuition as undergrads — Link
• UT professors adapt to online teaching with resources, support from coworkers — Link
• UT students find work in time of crisis — Link
• Gov. Abbott announces $50 million loans to small businesses, plans reopening business amid COVID-19 — Link
  - University of Texas
• Coder Raises $30M, Plans to Double Headcount — Link
• Six Serious Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence — Link
• Weekly Refresh: Hitch’s New Routes, Data.world’s COVID-19 Portal, and More — Link
  - BuiltinAustin
• Coder raises $30M, plans to double team — Link
• How Cindy Lo is able to keep paying her 25 employees — Link
• Austin VC funding started 2020 strong but could dry up quickly — Link
• In the money April 13: 7 companies rake in new funding — Link
• How Naturally Austin’s new boss is trying to help CPG companies survive coronavirus — Link
• How an essential electronics manufacturer is keeping its factory open, safe during pandemic — Link
• PPP postmortem: What worked, what needs to change, according to Austin bankers — Link
• Abbott eases some economic restrictions across Texas — Link
• Homegrown chain JuiceLand to reopen stores, hire 100 after getting PPP loan — Link
• Austin company helps GM convert car factory to ventilator plant — Link
• PPP dollars are gone, but this federal program is still issuing loans to small businesses — Link
• As Abbott prepares to roll out plan for restarting Texas economy, restaurants eager to reopen — Link
• After 41 years, Magnolia Cafe in West Austin to close permanently — Link
• Nonprofit thinks big about Texas’ future, even during pandemic — Link
• With PPP funding gone, business owners report mixed results — Link
• Golf is back on at Austin’s public courses — Link
• Austin hotels hit with devastating drops in occupancy, revenue — Link
• As PPP funds dwindle, Capital One still not accepting applications; Customers already defecting — Link
• Journal Profile: What Walter Robb’s been up to since leaving Whole Foods — Link
• How small businesses in suburbs can access zero-interest loans, other financial relief — Link
• What gig workers, self-employed need to know to get PPP loans — Link
• Austin business leaders named to Trump’s ‘Opening the Country’ council — Link
• Texas ranchers could see ‘significant amount of pain’ as meat processors shutter — Link
• Ray Perryman offers a broad breakdown of Texas’ economic prospects amid pandemic — Link
• As pandemic hammers vacation rentals, Austin startup fills quarantine niche — Link
• Here’s how many PPP loans have been approved for Texas businesses so far — Link
• Next Austin Chamber of Commerce CEO talks priorities, response to global health crisis — Link
• IRS grants deadline relief to some 1031 exchange investors, but not all — Link
• Abbott looking at how to reopen Texas economy while limiting spread of coronavirus — Link
• Extended stay-at-home order requires face coverings, other precautions at construction sites — Link
• Austin opens hotline for restaurants on navigating coronavirus — Link
• Goldman Sachs puts up $50M for loans to Texas small businesses — Link
• SBA rations disaster relief loans to $15,000 per applicant, US Chamber says — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• Austin startup Coder raises $30 million to continue growth — Link
• ESSENTIAL CHALLENGES: Even for ‘essential’ Austin companies, the outbreak is causing strains, forcing changes. — Link
• Coronavirus in Austin: How some small businesses are coping — Link
• Coronavirus in Round Rock: Some business owners adjusting to help employees — Link
• Coronavirus in Austin: Downturn started hitting local job market in March — Link
• Coronavirus auto insurance refunds: Here’s what you need to know — Link
• Coronavirus in Texas: 273,000 filed for jobless benefits last week — Link
• Coronavirus fallout: Texas Workforce Commission boosts hours, adds staff — Link
• Unusual alliance: Some oil firms, green groups agree on limiting Texas oil production — Link
• Coronavirus in Texas: State sets tax holiday for emergency supplies — Link
• Despite outbreak, Dell takes bigger slice of PC market — Link
• Austin-area gas prices keep plunging — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

• In This Together San Antonio — Link
• 7 Tips for Small Business Owners and Startups Enduring the Coronavirus Pandemic — Link
• Biotech Industry Leader Heather Hanson Named New BioMed SA President — Link
  - Startups San Antonio
• Local Christmas-based company designs ‘intubation boxes’ for San Antonio hospitals — Link
• Tito’s Handmade Vodka donates hand cleanser to Cibolo Police Department during coronavirus pandemic — Link
• Surge in online banking activity in San Antonio tied to stimulus checks — Link
• EVO Entertainment​’s top three executives gave up salaries to avoid furloughing staff — Link
  - San Antonio Express-News
• San Antonian Creates Tool to Pinpoint H-E-B Curbside Service Slots — Link
• Texas Businesses Approved for Highest Number of Relief Loans from SBA — Link
• On the House: Shiner Brewery Donates $500K to Aid Texas Restaurants — Link
• Five San Antonians Named to Governor’s Advisory Council — Link
• Texas 2036: Time for a Bipartisan Recovery Task Force — Link
• Commentary: Child Care Empowers Our Most Essential Workers — Link
• ‘Juggling Chainsaws’: Metro Health’s Emerick on Starting a New Job Amid a Pandemic — Link
• Continuing to Support Early Learners During Quarantine Is Critical — Link
• Face Masks Mandated as Bexar County Coronavirus Cases Top 900 — Link
• Medical, Health Experts Join Task Force to Guide ‘Reopening’ of San Antonio — Link
• Celebrate Fiesta From Home With Virtual Events, Actual Margaritas — Link
• Author Shea Serrano Raises $100K for San Antonio Food Bank — Link
• Many San Antonians Plan to Use Stimulus Checks to Pay Bills — Link
• Spring Without Cascarones: Fiesta’s Absence a Rare Thing for San Antonio — Link
• Researchers Utilize Expertise in Fight to Find Coronavirus Cure — Link
• Panel: ‘Science Is Going to Be What Solves’ the Global Coronavirus Pandemic — Link
• Models Show Coronavirus Cases Spiking If San Antonio Lifts Shutdown — Link
• BioMed SA Appoints New President, Announces Change In Board Leadership — Link
• How We Cope: Brand Strategist Juggles Crisis Management and Homeschooling — Link
• Christus Offers Rapid COVID-19 Antibodies Test for Some Patients — Link
• Bankers Deluged With Loan Requests from San Antonio Business Owners — Link
• Commentary: Tech Integration for Students Is a Crucial Investment — Link
• During a Pandemic, Expecting Moms Adapt to New Expectations — Link
• Life During Coronavirus: San Antonio’s Week in Photos — Link
• School Was Already Hard — Then Coronavirus Hit and Anxiety Spiked — Link
• Coronavirus Drives Telemedicine Use Among SA Doctors and Patients — Link
• San Antonio Food Bank Feeds Unprecedented Numbers as Need Surges — Link
  - Rivard Report
• Texas Gov. Abbott’s $50 Million Small Business Plan Looks Like Too Little, Too Late — Link
• 20 Restaurants, Bars and Liquor Stores Delivering Alcohol in San Antonio Right Now — Link
  - San Antonio Current
• Owner of Pearl-area restaurants closes businesses, lays off hundreds — Link
• These San Antonio banks are still accepting, processing PPP loan applications — Link
• Apollo Global Management ready to take Rackspace public again — Link
• SA seeking federal assistance to revive convention business — Link
• PPP may save fast-growing business — won’t stop devastating layoffs — Link
• Steak ‘n Shake CEO, SA-based investor, slams Cracker Barrel over coronavirus decision — Link
• Leading event planner sees reinvention, relationships as keys to survival — Link
• SA caterer ‘fighting for scraps’; believes it can ride out pandemic — Link
• The big event: What the fallout from the coronavirus means and will mean for SA’s event sector — Link
• This legacy SA events company getting used to word ‘canceled’ — Link
• SBA issues PPP rule for self-employed and general partners just before money runs out — Link
• This week in bankruptcies: Another health care company files amid the pandemic — Link
• Tapping local resources key to SA federal contractor landing PPP loan — Link
• Texas loses 4,200 clean energy jobs in March — Link
• VIA partnership fights digital divide for students in need — Link
• EnCap-backed startup brings another Andeavor veteran onboard — Link
• SA Toyota plant making face shields for local first responders — Link
• What the CARES Act has to offer real estate professionals — Link
• PODCAST: Texas economist Ray Perryman on where the economy could land after pandemic, energy collapse — Link
• BioMed SA taps new president with recruitment on her mind — Link
• Local company to help Air Force flight surveillance — Link
• South Texas Military Contracting Roundup: COVID-19 continues to affect solicitations — Link
• San Antonio retailer among first recipients of PPP loans in Texas — Link
• San Antonio considered ‘most prepared’ for recession, according to researchers — Link
• San Antonio biotech seeking critical capital in a pandemic — Link
• SA lenders to small businesses: Don’t do these things if you want to qualify for PPP loans — Link
• Can Texas handle a COVID-19 spike? Here’s what the data says. — Link
• Wells Fargo is again urging small business customers to consider other banks for SBA relief loans — Link
• COVID-19 leading to multiple changes at Joint Base San Antonio — Link
• Three ways offices won’t look the same after the pandemic — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• DEC Welcome To The Fast Start Mentor Program — Link
• Dallas Biotech Startup Lantern Pharma Files for IPO to Bring Cancer Drugs to Market — Link
• Coppell Nanotech Startup Lands $25M Series C to Acquire Polymer Company — Link
• Glorious PC Gaming Race Unites Gamers to Give Gloriously — Link
• Business Insights Company Digital.ai Emerges From Stealth After Mergers — Link
• Local Founder 3D Prints PPE for Frontline Health Care Workers — Link
• North Texas VC Activity Slows in Q1 as Coronavirus Threatens Recession — Link
• Report: Dallas Regional Chamber Sees Positive Post-Pandemic Local Economy — Link
• The Show Must Go On: FWSO Launches Virtual Platform During Pandemic — Link
• Hub Map: A Guide to North Texas Coworking Spaces — Link
  - North Texas Inno’s Kevin Cumming
• Texas university unmasks cutting-edge technology to battle COVID-19 — Link
• Texas startup adds services to help apartment-dwellers combat COVID-19 — Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
• How Are Dallas Landlords of Restaurant Tenants Responding Amid a Crisis? — Link
• Digital Matrix Systems Moves Headquarters to Plano — Link
• The DEC Network’s Platform to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses Navigate COVID-19 — Link
• Amazon Teams Up With Local Pharmacy Benefits Manager — Link
• SMU Offers Free Telehealth Counseling — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Leading Through the Coronavirus Crisis — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Mark Cuban — Link
• DFW-Based Jet Service Helps Dozens of Seniors Get Home During Pandemic — Link
• Alto Teams Up With Scripx to Deliver Prescriptions — Link
• These Three Employers are Ranked in Fortune’s Top 40 in Healthcare — Link
• Frustration and Success Navigating COVID-19 Small Business Relief — Link
  - D Magazine
• Kimberly-Clark Foundation and the Falk Family Donate $1M to United Way Covid-19 Fund — Link
• North Texas Companies Make Masks Their Mission to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic — Link
• TPG Capital-Backed Digital.ai Acquires Arxan Technologies — Link
• Fast Launch: Dallas‑Area Firms Join Forces for Smarter Healthcare Supply Chain — Link
• International Risk Management Solutions Firm to Relocate HQ to Plano, Plans to Hire Tech Talent — Link
• Dallas Invents: 146 Patents Granted for Week of March 31 — Link
• Dallas E-Commerce Retailer Soap Hope Integrates With Plano Nonprofit My Possibilities Initiative — Link
• Vibe Check: Match’s New Video Feature Helps Users Date While Distancing — Link
• COVID-19 ‘Game Changer’: Christus Health’s New Antibodies Test Can Detect Who’s Been Infected — Link
• Three Tech Companies Combine to Deliver a ‘Digital Nirvana’ to Large Enterprises — Link
• Great Places to Work: Fortune Names the 80 Best Workplaces in Texas for 2020 — Link
• Naya Ventures Portfolio Company Motivity Labs Exits to JNIT — Link
• Peak Nanosystems’ $25M Series C Funds an Acquisition and Product Expansion — Link
• National Database: Dallas’ Catapult Health Partners With Evive to Direct People to COVID-19 Testing Sites — Link
• PPP Program: Texas Governor Abbott Announces $50M in Small Business Loans With Goldman Sachs, LiftFund — Link
• Dallas-based Gluent Eyes New Funding, Growth, and Market Opportunity — Link
• Fidelity Investments Hiring Hundreds of Employees in Dallas‑Fort Worth — Link
• When COVID-19 Struck, College District Shifted 60k Students to Online Learning in a Week — Link
• Implementing a New Sales Enablement Solution for HealthMarkets — Link
  - Dallas Innovates
• Coppell startup raises $25M for acquisition, to expand products — Link
• CyrusOne ranks №1 among data center picks, analyst says — Link
• North Texas landlords, retailers ready to reopen under new retail-to-go guidance from governor — Link
• How do North Texas mayors feel about reopening local businesses? — Link
• No punishment for not wearing face masks, Dallas County Commissioners vote — Link
• North Texas lenders discuss what’s next for small businesses and the PPP — Link
• Property tax bills likely to rise despite COVID-19 economic crisis — Link
• Business as usual? What to know about Gov. Abbott’s order to reopen Texas economy — Link
• PPP dollars are gone, but this federal program is still issuing loans to small businesses — Link
• Dallas private aviation company halts flying, furloughs ‘most’ crew members — Link
• Tyler Technologies outpacing market as investors line up for ‘high quality’ company — Link
• Along with more funds, restaurants need changes to PPP requirements — Link
• Form-D Friday: Crestline Investors raises $593M — Link
• North Texas colleges just landed over $132 million in CARES Act stimulus. Will they need more? — Link
• JCPenney, Neiman Marcus skipped debt payments this week amid bankruptcy reports — Link
• Dallas biotech company files to go public as it works to help beat cancer — Link
• SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program has run out of money. What should DFW small businesses do now? — Link
• How the coronavirus pandemic will change Texas’ long-term goals, priorities — Link
• Gold’s Gym moves HQ, closes Uptown and Preston Center gyms permanently — Link
• DFW Coronavirus Tracker: Dallas County residents will be required to wear ‘cloth coverings’ — Link
• American asks government to suspend or delay service to these cities — Link
• The week in bankruptcies: MQ Coco Plum LLC, MQ Pretty Pond LLC and 4 more — Link
• Here’s where foot traffic has dropped the most in Dallas — Link
• Can North Texas’ local banks handle a second round of PPP loans? It depends — Link
• President Trump taps North Texas businesses for economic revival task force — Link
• Future of Dallas to Houston high-speed rail project uncertain — Link
• Texas leads the country in most approved PPP loans — Link
• Some Texas restaurants continue to wait on PPP loans — Link
• What DFW accounting firms are doing to protect clients’ — and their own — balance sheets after COVID-19 meltdown — Link
• Some DFW manufacturers’ shift to PPE production may become permanent — Link
• Dallas-area venture investments manage to climb in first quarter despite COVID-19 — Link
• Three companies, including one in California, combine to form Plano business with TPG backing — Link
• Some small businesses say local banks are coming to rescue with PPP loans — Link
• ‘It’s not really a doomsday forecast’: UMB Bank’s chief investment officer on Dallas, a recession and a jobless recovery — Link
• Could oil’s crisis be solar’s opportunity? — Link
• CEO says Irving company may have endured ‘through the worst of this’ as he avoids layoffs — Link
• Dallas CEO: ‘People tend to buy our product when they’re worried about what’s going on in the world’ — Link
• Behind the eatertainment ‘double whammy’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Link
• DFW Coronavirus Tracker: New Texas small biz initiative launched; when to expect your stimulus check — Link
• Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce: Half of members say they can’t sustain more than ‘a few months’ of current trends — Link
• How to tackle recruiting and hiring remotely — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal

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• Social Media Savvy Mothers Connect With Their Peers Via New SocialMama App — Link
• The Cannon Startup Innovation Scholarship — Link
  - The Cannon Blog
• The ION Podcast Series — Video
• Major Texas employer joins fight against COVID-19 with reusable masks — Link
• Texas startup launches new sanitation services to combat COVID-19 — Link
• University of Houston unmasks cutting-edge new way to battle COVID-19 — Link
• Answering ethical questions posed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution — Link
• 2 big companies team up with Houston nonprofit to feed unemployed hospitality workers — Link
• Rice University launches online programming for entrepreneurs dealing with COVID-19 closures — Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• Report finds Houston is short on health care workers — Link
• Houston expert shares 5 tips for brand messaging during a pandemic — Link
• Physics professor at University of Houston puts nanotech to work to fight the spread of COVID-19 — Link
• These 7 Houston health tech companies are providing COVID-19 solutions — Link
• International accelerator launches sports tech program in Houston — Link
• New Houston startup pivots to provide relief for small businesses struggling to pay rent — Link
• Houston health tech startup pivots to provide local governments a coronavirus screening tool — Link
• Houston innovation expert on life after COVID-19: ‘we may never work and learn the same again’ — Link
• Growing Houston blockchain company expands C-suite — Link
• Houston engineering firm provides grant for COVID-19 antibodies testing kits — Link
• Philanthropic supply chain tool connects Houstonians with resources during coronavirus crisis — Link
• Houston startup pivots to make communication software for hospitals limiting visitors — Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
  - InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
• More than two dozen Rice students win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, funding — Link
• With help from Rice community, students in need stay connected — Link
• Rice student mentors switch gears, go online — Link
• Prestigious Truman Scholarship awarded to Rice junior — Link
• Plastic use in pandemic contributing to global waste problem, says Baker Institute expert — Link
• Rice Athletics pitches in with thank-you packages for medical workers — Link
• Campus Kindness: Snacks for hospital workers and a boost for businesses: Jones School students team up to help out — Link
• Negotatiating the new normal: How Jones School MBA course negotiated transition to online learning — Link
• Rice’s Glasscock School launches courses to help small businesses — Link
  - Rice University
• Real Life Superheroes: UH Alumni On Front Lines In Hospitals — Link
• Facing a Dire Need: UH Producing Face Shields for Houston Hospitals — Link
• Harris Health System — University of Houston Collaboration — Link
• Mike Floyd Named Second Truman Scholar in UH History — Link
• Distant but Connected: UH Students Serving the Community in the Time of Social Distancing — Link
• COPD as a Lung Stem Cell Disease — Link
• Minimizing Relationship Tension at Home During COVID-19 Crisis — Link
• Discovery Offers New Avenue for Next-Generation Data Storage — Link
• Adapting Smartwatches to Improve Distance Learning and Health — Link
• UH Engineer Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship — Link
• UH Cougar Emergency Fund to Support Students Facing Hardship — Link
• New Hardware Project Would Boost 5G Networks — Link
• UH College of Education Launches Virtual Job Fair for Aspiring Teachers — Link
• Stay-at-Home Orders and Domestic Violence — Link
• How Have COVID-19, Low Prices Affected the Energy Workforce? — Link
• Stress Test: Putting Stress of Pandemic, Quarantine to Good Use — Link
• Researchers Report New Understanding of Energy Fluctuations in Fluids — Link
• Food for Thought: UH Expert Offers Best Practices for Handling Groceries and Take-Out During Coronavirus Pandemic — Link
• Strengthen Your Immune System with Home Exercise — Link
  - University of Houston
• As Gov. Abbott announces plans to reopen Texas, Mayor Turner, Judge Hidalgo urge caution — Link
• Here’s how many PPP loans were approved in Texas — and which industries got the most — Link
• ‘No quick fix in the real estate industry,’ but experts predict pent-up demand for retail — Link
• Gov. Abbott creates strike force, starts loosening retailer restrictions, more — Link
• Houston Apartment Association donates $100K to renter assistance fund — Link
• Nonprofit CEO aids smaller hospitals with protective equipment amid the pandemic — Link
• Houston pharma co. completes $15M facility sale to M.D. Anderson as drug research stalls — Link
• How to juggle your new side gigs alongside your main job — Link
• Op-ed: What dining out might look like after the pandemic — Link
• Behind the eatertainment ‘double whammy’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Link
• Universities adjust to new normal in placing students in careers — Link
• Houston mayor calls for continued social distancing, face coverings, working remotely for ‘quite some time’ — Link
• Houston hospitals prepare for the worst as physicians anticipate the pandemic’s peak in Houston — Link
• Could oil’s crisis be solar’s opportunity? — Link
• PPP funds are gone. Houston SBA, local lenders weigh in on what happens next — Link
• CEOs of Sysco, Houston energy cos. among appointees to Trump’s Economic Revival Industry Groups — Link
• Noble Energy cuts spending again, reduces exec pay, dividend — Link
• This Houston distillery’s first alcohol to bottle? Hand sanitizer — Link
• What gig workers, self-employed need to know to get PPP loans — Link
• Academy Sports + Outdoors furloughs staff, cuts pay — Link
• Thousands apply for Harris County forgivable loan program in 28 hours — Link
• Houston COVID-19 Recovery Fund continues to grow, makes first investment in 30 local nonprofits — Link
• How Houston-area lenders have responded to unprecedented surge of SBA PPP loan requests — Link
• Lawsuit: Star Cinema Grill owner claims buyer backed out of deal over coronavirus pandemic — Link
• Texas №1 for Paycheck Protection Program loans approved so far — Link
• Houston seismic data co. raises doubts around continued operations — Link
• Texas was doing a lot of things right heading into 2020. Here’s where the economy could land after pandemic, energy collapse — Link
• Houston SBA director on PPP loans: We’re doing in a day ‘what normally happens in a year’ — Link
• Conn’s keeps stores open, cuts execs’ pay, delays expansion plans amid COVID-19 — Link
• Coronavirus headlines: Houston testing sites accepting people without symptoms, Texas 49th in testing — Link
• Houston energy data co. hires adviser to explore strategic alternatives — Link
• Fitness facility owners, brokers look ahead to an uncertain future after coronavirus — Link
• In pushing for quotas, small drillers face an uphill battle at Railroad Commission — Link
• These are the Houston-area lenders that have approved the most PPP loans — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• Houston’s nascent startup scene struggles as COVID-19 pandemic continues — Link
• Free apps to turn to while passing time at home — Link
• Houston health care startup brings at-home coronavirus testing to hundreds — Link
• VPN complicating work-from-home connections — Link
• ‘The need is real’: Houston-area schools scramble for hotspots so students don’t fall behind — Link
• Online surveys hope to paint demographic profiles of pandemic — Link
• NASA, SpaceX announce date for launching astronauts — Link
• Scientists find potentially habitable planet that had been hidden in NASA data — Link
• Doctors treating COVID-19 at Houston Methodist get inside giant plexiglass boxes — Link
• Seismologists search for new earthquake data in suddenly… — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog’s Dwight Silverman
• Strong Values And A Culture Of Caring — Royal Technologies — Link
• People You Should Know — Dora Brown — Link
• Business You Should Know — 2f Akaushi Beef — Link
• Meet Your Ambassador — Selena Martinez — Link
  - The McAllen Chamber of Commerce

• Imagining How 2020 Plays Out — Geekdom Fund’s Michael Girdley — Link
• Grain, a startup built expressly atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making, raises $4 million — Techcrunch’s Connie Loizos — Link
• 11 Diverse Startups Win At The 2020 SoGal Global Pitch Competition Finals — Link
• Pivot, not panic: How startups are coping with the coronavirus crisis — Link
• Coronavirus Has Battered the Influencer Market — But Some Are Still Pulling in Work — Vice’s Hannah Ewens — Link
• Startup of the Year Special Event: Startups & COVID-19 | Virtual Presentation by Established — Video
• Pen and Sword: data.world’s Brett Hurt — Using Data to Crunch COVID-19 — Podcast
• How Child Care Startups In The U.S. Are Helping Families Cope With The Covid-19 Crisis — Techcrunch’s Catherine Shu — Link
• The 5 fundamental steps to getting your startup ready for VCs — The Next Web
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• Daily Dispatch: How are VCs and startups doing right now? — Link
• 4 Unusual Coronavirus-Era Leadership Habits That Will Help Your Employees Stay Productive — Inc.com — Link
• Paul Constant: COVID-19 isn’t hurting the economy, corporate greed is — Business Insider — Link
• How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty — TechCrunch — Link
• A Bookstore in Boulder Pivots to Bike Delivery of ‘Mystery Bags’ — Atlas Obscura — Link
• Changing policy, Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes investments case-by-case — TechCrunch — Link
• Lightspeed Venture Partners raises $4.2 billion for 3 funds — Link
• See the Impact of COVID-19 Unfolding by Industry in Real Time — Forthea — Link
• Emotional Health During the Coronavirus Crisis: How to Cope with Anxiety and Manage Stress at Work — First Round Review — Link
• Opinion — What Do You Owe Your Neighbor? The Pandemic Might Change Your Answer — The New York Times — Link
• These 4 Retail Groups With Bad E-Commerce Businesses Are Paying The Price As Coronavirus Pushes Shoppers Online — Link
• Venture Capital Funding Report Q1 2020 — CB Insights Research — Link
• The Impact of COVID-19 on early stage startups. The answer may surprise you — LinkedIn — Link
• The Covid Effect: Virtual Reality — Ebco — Trend and Consumer Experts — Link
• Why We Might Be Feeling a Little Off — GAN — Link
• How These 19 Founders And CEOs Are Leading During The COVID-19 Crisis — Link
• Punitive Liquidation Preferences Return to VC — Don’t Do It — TechCrunch — Link
• I’ve Given Up Coffee and Alcohol During Self-Isolation and it has Been… Great? — Hyper Giant’s Ben Lamm — Link
• Funding for COVID-19 Projects — Sam Altman — Link
• Retooling an At-Home STI Test for Covid-19 — Inc.com — Link

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WeWork Food Labs Presents:
Driving Profits and Revenue in the Foodservice Channel — a Primer for Startups
Monday, April 20, 2020 April 20 1:00pm — 3:00pm CDT
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Resetting Small Business America with Jon Taffer
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM CDT
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SKU Town Hall on Coping with COVID-19: Amazon and D2C
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM CDT
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Workology: Running Remote: How to Grow & Lead Remote Teams
Thursday April 23, 2020 at 1 PM CST (2 PM EST, 11 AM PST)
REGISTER500 + Oracle: Navigating an Unpredictable Economy With Seasoned VCs & Founders
Tuesday April 21, 2020 12:30 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)
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SA Tech Comes Together: Digital Campfire Meetup
Tuesday April 21 at 4 PM — 5:30 PM
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EarthxE-Capital Virtual Summit 2020
April 22–24 | A Digital Experience
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How to Be a Non-Obvious Thinker During a Pandemic *Online*
Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 12 PM — 1 PM
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The Freelance Conference
Tuesday April 28, 2020 — Wednesday April 29, 2020
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