From Corporate Law to Chocolatier: Welcome Maggie Louise Callahan — Link

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Maggie Louise Callahan interviewed by Marc Nathan
Wednesday, November 13th 6pm
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Venture Financing — From Seed to Series B
Presented by the Toronto Stock Exchange and Capital Factory
Wednesday, November 20th 1:30pm — 6:30pm
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TeXchange Austin Monthly Luncheon — Link

TeXchange Monthly Lunch
Driving Revenue in 2020: How to Increase Your Return from Sales and Marketing
Jake Dunlap LinkedIn. CEO of Skaled Consulting and Skaled Media (www.skaled.com)
Thursday, November 21st 11:30a — 1pm
Capital Factory
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AUSTIN STARTUP HOLIDAY MARKET 2019
December. 1st, 12pm — 4pm
Native Hostel
807 E 4th St, Austin, TX 78702
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BBVA names Gifts for Good winner of $100,000 prize during finale of BBVA Momentum 2019 — Link
General Assembly Expands To Dallas — Link
Zoho Hits 50M Business Users — Link
- Texas Tech Pulse
Waymo is Pulling Its Self-Driving Vehicle Operations From Austin — Link
Austin-Based Bumble and Affiliates Valued at $3B as Early Investor Sells Shares — Link
Here Are the Austin Companies on the Deloitte Fast 500 List — Link
- Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
Big SXSW Announcement on Nov 12 — Link
Nov 12: IOT at the Austin Forum — Link
SXSW Pitch: Health & Wearables — Link
Nov 19: D&I in ATX Tech Ecosystem — Link
New Worlds Space Conference in ATX — Link
SXSW Pitch: Augmented Reality — Link
Nov 13–14: Time Machine Tackles AI — Link
SXSW Pitch: Consumer Tech & CPG — Link
SXSW Pitch: Smart Cities — Link
SXSW Pitch: AI, Robotics & Voice — Link
November 6: SpaceATX at the Blanton — Link
Review Over a Decade of Data in the 2020 PitchBook Report — Link
What to Expect at the SXSW 2020 Trade Show — Link
New for 2020: Trade Show to Feature 23 Distinct Pavilions — Link
SXSW Alumni Releases — November 2019 — Link
- SXSW’s Hugh Forrest
‘Tonight Show’ host Jimmy Fallon hosts live taping at UT-Austin — Link
Aerospace professor says he wants to make UT ‘the Hogwarts for space’ at conference — Link
Artificial intelligence system Fashion ++ helps people make fashion choices — Link
Graduate school implements new name pronunciation software for faculty — Link
UHS appoints new chief medical officer — Link
Staff weighs in on UT’s future at forum — Link
Donald Trump to nominate University of Texas cancer center executive for FDA commissioner — Link
Austin launches webpage to track electronic cigarette lung injuries — Link
Moped rental company brings 1,000 mopeds to Austin — Link
- The Daily Texan
How 4 Austin Companies Navigate Growth While Scaling — Link
4 Austin Companies Made Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 — Link
Learn How to Fend Off Hackers With These 7 Austin Cybersecurity… — Link
Dandy Launches Platform for Custom-Tailored Pet Supplements — Link
6 Data Science Bootcamps for Mastering Machine Learning — Link
How Venture-Backed Startups Enter the World of NGOs — Link
- BuiltinAustin
Look inside Amazon’s first 4-star store in Texas — Link
Bumble, affiliated dating apps valued at $3B as Blackstone invests — Link
Waymo to pull driverless cars out of Austin — Link
M&A wrap: Ad agency T3, cybersecurity firm Jask acquired — Link
Wired: Dana DeBeauvoir is saving American elections — Link
Why Austin startup Medici is working with famed Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell — Link
‘ … y’all good?’: How GSD&M won the internet for the Popeye’s chicken sandwich — Link
A different kind of Whole Foods opens in Houston, with some other Austin companies in tow — Link
Geekdom Fund raises $2.3M for 2 Austin startups — Link
Real Good Vodka raises millions to keep up with the Joneses (and Tito) — Link
AMD shares reach 13-year high as CEO teases new chips — Link
Seeds now second-in-command at tech PR agency — Link
ABJ readers: Indeed’s new office outdoes Facebook, Google — Link
Lead fearlessly but ask for flexibility, accomplished female execs advise next generation — Link
Marketing company may cut nearly 150 Austin jobs — Link
Bumble puts its money where its mouth is to fund women entrepreneurs — Link
In the money Nov. 4: Austin’s $22M IPO, other funding news — Link
- Austin Business Journal
Austin game maker Cerberus acquires Austin-based Tastebud — Link
Waymo to close Austin operations, relocate workers — Link
UT’s IC2 Institute taking on new focus, chief says — Link
Austin’s Adjacent Technologies to merge with Arizona company — Link
Austin a candidate for ‘Blue Zones’ health project — Link
Austin cybersecurity firm CynergisTek grows with acquisition — Link
Bumble to help fund loans for Austin’s women entrepreneurs — Link
Hypergiant AI model aims to improve disaster search & rescue — Link
Apple’s Austin workforce continues to climb — Link
Startup Spotlight: Austin’s Reset aims to match companies with meeting spaces — Link
Austin digital marketing agency T3 sold to California firm — Link
Harte Hanks cutting 146 jobs in Austin — Link
- Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

Shift in Port San Antonio Strategic Approach Yields Close to 3,000 New Jobs — Link
UT Health San Antonio TechNovum Accelerator for Researchers Graduates 8 New Companies — Link
- Startups San Antonio
H-E-B launches new beauty department, Sears at South Park Mall closing and more San Antonio retail news — Link
Restaurant, store that was part of San Marcos outlet shopping ‘tradition’ closing in December — Link
A’Gaci hints at ‘coming back’ later this month, though questions remain — Link
- San Antonio Express-News
Shiner Brewery Claps Back at Corporate Beer Brand That Bought Billboards in Its Hometown — Link
City Staff Gives Green Light to Three E-Scooter Companies to Remain in San Antonio — Link
There’s Something for Everyone at the Fall 2019 Edition of TEDxSanAntonio — Link
- San Antonio Current
City Council Awards Geekdom $250,000 for Civic Technology Program — Link
Rackspace to Acquire Cloud Consulting Firm Onica — Link
CityFest Panelists Discuss Plans of Attack in Fight Against Poverty — Link
CityFest Mobility Panel: Car-Centric Mentality Won’t Change Overnight — Link
CityFest Sparks Dialogue on Issues Shaping San Antonio — Link
CityFest to Welcome More Than 50 Speakers for Second Annual Festival — Link
NYC’s High Line Founder and SA Native Robert Hammond Opens CityFest — Link
St. Mary’s University Exceeds $130M Fundraising Target 2 Years Early — Link
Bike-Share Program At Risk of Folding; Leaders Cite Scooter Trend Among Factors — Link
Blue Duck Scooters Prepares $30M Investor Pitch — Link
Lyft, Lime, Razor Recommended for 3 City Scooter Contracts; Bird Falls Short — Link
SAPD Selects New Software Technology for Police Reports — Link
With Rebranding and New CEO, Tourism Industry Group Turns Focus to Local Issues — Link
- The Rivard Report
Geekdom Fund raises combined $2.3M for two Austin-based startups — Link
City Council approves funds for pilot program with Geekdom — Link
Councilman hopeful scooter deals hold companies accountable — Link
Six local companies nationally recognized for hiring veterans — Link
In the service of entrepreneurs — Link
Executive Q&A: Aptum Technologies’ new COO and top local exec — Link
BBVA discusses investment in San Antonio — Link
City offering new tool to recruit companies, jobs — Link
Air Force software development startup to open in downtown SA — Link
Former SA biotech CEO talks abrupt exit after key wins — Link
Branding advice from the man who coined ‘Don’t Mess with Texas’ — Link
Rackspace buying California AWS consulting and services company — Link
BBVA USA pledges more than $15B to community development — Link
Bank of San Antonio launches receivables financing subsidiary; names president — Link
- San Antonio Business Journal
How NPower is Helping North Texas Veterans Find Tech Jobs — Link
Highlights From NTX Inno’s Launch Party — Link
How Richardson’s Reflect Systems Keeps Digital Advertising Fresh — Link
Fort Worth Razor Company Lands ‘Shark Tank’ Investment — Link
Why Ride-Hailing App Alto Doesn’t Want to Be the Next Uber — Link
- NTXInno’s Kevin Cummings
Evolve Energy Makes Energy Management Automatic in Texas with New AI-Based Platform — Link
- Odessa American
Texas’ top 10 fastest-growing tech companies, according to Deloitte’s Fast 500 list — Link
- The Dallas Morning News
Dallas-Fort Worth leads the nation with most minority-owned startups — Link
DFW startup clips $300,000 from investor on ABC’s Shark Tank — Link
- Culture Map Dallas
Design Students Bring Wearable Technology to UNT Opera’s Don Giovanni — Link
Sam Coats Plays the Fear Card to Protect VisitDallas — Link
Uber Technologies Breaks Ground on Future Deep Ellum 23-Story Tower Dallas Headquarters — Link
Photo Recap: The Dallas 500 Release Party — Link
Photo Recap: D CEO’s Oil & Gas Awards 2019 — Link
What the @*&^% Is Going on With Dallas Traffic? — Link
Laura Beil’s New Podcast Bad Batch Sheds Light on the World of Unregulated Stem Cell Treatment — Link
PepsiCo Frito-Lay Deepens Commitment to Southern Dallas — Link
Some On Council Don’t Want to Subsidize ‘Luxury’ Market Royal Blue Grocery — Link
- D Magazine
New SMU and UT Austin Research Paper Links Earthquakes to Oil and Gas — Link
- Dallas Observer
Electric bike-share program enters DFW market — Link
Form-D Friday: Oil and gas investor raises more than $20M — Link
The Westin DFW airport shows off new look (Slideshow) — Link
Economist: Improve Texas schools to keep corporations rolling in — Link
Get to know the CFO of the Year Awards class of 2019 — Link
Roundup of recent deals and dollars: Nov. 7 — Link
Richardson-based housing management tech provider to acquire Boston software company — Link
Website visits for the highest-revenue companies in North Texas — Link
North Texas leads nation in industrial sales price increase, report says — Link
How this CFO is preparing his billion-dollar software firm for the future — Link
Why this CFO moved from the healthcare space to a B2B services franchisor — Link
This CFO says her success at her old job led directly to her getting her current job — Link
Accountable care organizations results prove the future is now for value-based care — Link
Solera CEO steps down after six months, interim CEO appointed — Link
Inside Amazon’s new brick-and-mortar store in Frisco (Photos) — Link
As CFO for America’s Team, football is just the start of his responsibilities — Link
CFO for educational nonprofit says her skills have finally met her passion — Link
Why North Texas has such economic potential — a panel discussion on the state of business in the region — Link
Global investment firm opens office in Dallas, hires new CFO — Link
CFO for Dallas nonprofit is building a mission to serve those who need a home — Link
How Raytheon got creative to attract and retain DFW talent — Link
City of Dallas’ CFO is driven by a duty for public service — Link
Amazon to open 4-star store in Frisco this week, a first for Texas — Link
How this restaurant group VP is using customer loyalty to battle disruption — Link
North Texas bus service adds Dallas-Oklahoma City route — Link
Latest census data shows Californians continue to flock to Texas — Link
As CFO she’s able to fulfill her dual passions for real estate and accounting — Link
Raytheon DFW exec to be key part of company’s leadership post-merger — Link
Warehouse for imported meats, 200 jobs could be headed near DFW — Link
Dallas equality report shows changing disparities — Link
Report shows that private equity contributes billions in tax dollars for Texas — Link
Plano tech company acquires Frisco software firm — Link
How he went from founder of a commercial bank to also being its VP, COO and CFO — Link
Dallas leads Texas cities in M&A deal value — Link
- Dallas Business Journal
Painting With a View: Reunion Tower Takes Painting to New Heights — Link
Lone Star Film Festival to Feature Texas Filmmakers, Celebrities, and More Than 140 Films — Link
Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 List Recognizes Ten North Texas Companies — Link
Knot Standard: Dallas Menswear Goes Digital — Link
First Look: The Perot Museum Transforms its TI Engineering and Innovation Hall — Link
Discovery: UTSW’s Hi-Res Microscope Produces Better Images; UNT Prof Finds Polluted Air Can Cause Weight Gain — Link
Google Picks Dallas’ Zimperium to Keep Harmful Apps Away — Link
ExxonMobil Enters Two-Year Carbon Capture Technology Partnership — Link
Global Entrepreneurship Week is Returning to Fort Worth With 50-Plus Events — Link
Trinity Groves’ Pitch Contest Will Bring its Newest Restaurant or Retail Concept — Link
From the Stage to the Boardroom: Dallas Comedy House Revamps its Corporate Training — Link
Follow the Money: Safe Harbor Marinas Gets $41M, Mooala Nets $8.3M; Improving Acquires Code Authority — Link
Sparkyard: New Platform Launches to Connect Fort Worth’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem — Link
Complexity Gaming Partners with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ Extra Life Program — Link
Matchmakers for the Gig Economy: Snag Work Launches in Dallas — Link
The Countdown: Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in October — Link
Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29 — Link
Toyota Launches Innovation Center at Plano HQ — Link
Fort Worth Razor Startup Gets $300K From ‘Shark Tank’ — Link
Mooala Closes $8.3M Series A — Link
DI People: Koddi, Raytheon, Southwest Airlines, and Pier 1 Make Executive Announcements — Link
MeshTek Labs Deploys Smart Lighting Network in California Greenhouse — Link
Hypergiant’s New AI Model Helps First Responders Prioritize During a Natural Disaster — Link
Paul Quinn College Students Participate in Interactive ‘Quinnite Build’ to Ease Digital Divide in Neighborhoods — Link
‘Future of Digital Freight’: American Airlines Modernizes its Global Cargo Operations — Link
‘Similar Service Companies’: Plano’s Improving Acquires Frisco’s Code Authority — Link
- Dallas Innovates
Can our muscles stay young even as we get old? — Link
Getting fitted with a custom hip — Link
NextMed: FDA expands use of device that keeps donor lungs viable — Link
A device to help veterans breathe easier — Link
- TMCx
Scary Stories — Startup Edition — Link
- The Cannon Blog
Texas startup clips $300,000 from investor on ABC’s Shark Tank — Link
Houston lands on list of U.S. metros with most minority-owned startups — Link
TMC Innovation Institute announces redesign of its acceleration program for 2020 — Link
Houstonians get revved up at exclusive AutomotiveMap launch party — Link
5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
Rice Alliance names most promising life science companies at annual forum — Link
How blockchain is emerging as a core building block — Link
Rice University research finds certain cognitive factors appear in the minds of entrepreneurs — Link
Native Houston entrepreneur snags investment on Shark Tank — Link
City of Houston and local health care organizations receive $4M to treat mental health in students — Link
E-commerce growth is sparking some changes in Houston’s industrial real estate market — Link
Innovation leader wants Houston’s diverse population to have the same access to entrepreneurial success — Link
Houston biomedical startup granted $1.5M, Chevron taps into Plug and Play, and more innovation news — Link
Overheard: Expert panel weighs in on the future of Houston — from mobility to climate change — Link
Here’s what makes a startup stand out, according to University of Houston research — Link
10+ can’t-miss Houston business and innovation events for November — Link
From robots to immunotherapy, TMC talks innovation at its annual address — Link
3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
- InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
Nobel laureate discusses Social Security at RISE lecture — Link
White House science adviser to speak at Rice Nov. 12 — Link
Perovskite solar cells get an upgrade — Link
Rice tapped by Army for cutting-edge communications research — Link
Texas Heart Institute enlists Rice faculty to advance pacemaker project — Link
- Rice University
Sight for Success: UH Students to Provide Vision Screenings at HISD School — Link
University of Houston System Universities Raise Record Amount in FY19, Surpass Goals — Link
Debunking Common Misperceptions of Asian Community Health — Link
Hospital Disinfectants Struggling to Kill C. Diff Bacteria Colonies — Link
‘Brain on Art’ Performance Set for Saturday at MFAH — Link
Childhood Chores Not Related to Self-Control Development — Link
UH Energy Symposium Will Focus on the Future of Plastics — Link
- University of Houston
Major Houston hospital system plans $250M Woodlands campus expansion — Link
Texas health care innovation starts with people — Link
Health insurance exec wants to make health care accessible to all — Link
Texas Research & Technology Foundation CEO: East San Antonio the right destination for innovation — Link
Innovations in Health Care: UT's medical school already expanding - Link
Pioneering approach to funding new ideas in medicine takes shape at Dell Medical School - Link
As his 'membership medicine' model thrives, this CEO thinks his insurance product is just what the doctor ordered - Link
Innovations in Health Care: UT institute pioneering new health care model - Link
Innovations in Health Care: Q&A with Jim Hinton, CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health - Link
Innovations in Health Care: Q&A with Elyse Stoltz Dickerson, CEO of biotech firm Eosera - Link
Innovations in Health Care: Q&A with Ron Rittenmeyer, CEO of Tenet Healthcare - Link
Photos: Houston's first food hall outside of downtown opens this weekend - Link
We have a winner: Houston Endowment selects firm to design new HQ - Link
Photos: Look inside Whole Foods' new Houston store below Midtown apartments - Link
Downtown food hall-community hub nabs first retail tenant - Link
Yes Prep CEO wants to see number of his students double in five years - Link
Houstonians' 2019 holiday spending to exceed national average and last year's figure, report says - Link
Behind The List: Houston public companies show rapid two-year growth - Link
Houston Business Journal names new managing editor, assistant managing editor - Link
The future of coworking spaces and landlords - Link
Opportunity Zones gaining traction for Houston investors - Link
Former Shell leader launches environmentally friendly beef subscription service - Link
Houston billionaire's restaurant co. closes on Del Frisco’s acquisition - Link
Houston entrepreneurial coworking campus names new CEO - Link
Funding Roundup: LNG firm, real estate investor, Houston startups raise money - Link
- Houston Business Journal
Houston Women's Chamber, LiftFund to launch small business loan for female entrepreneurs - Link
SpaceX connects Brownsville to a new world of space enthusiasts - Link
Houston FBI leads efforts to protect energy companies from cyberattacks - Link
T-Mobile to turn on 5G network in Houston, nationally next month - Link
Bandwidth poised to become next bottleneck in the Permian Basin - Link
Two Houston podcasts get reel for movie fans - Link
- The Houston Chronicle's Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog
Why Startup Accelerators Compete with Smart Money - Silicon Hills Lawyer’s José Ancer - Link
SKU Cohort 8 Applications - www.sku.is/apply
When Women Invest in Other Women - Fortune - Link
4 Women Talk About the 2 Percent Club - Thrive Global - Link
3 Tips to Maximize Your Startup Ecosystem - Zach Ferres - Link
WeWork’s workers are organizing - The Verge’s Bijan Stephen - Link
Two Surefire Ways to Get Past Gatekeepers and Talk to CEOs - Steli Efti - Link
Saudis Back Travis Kalanick’s New Startup - Wall Street Journal’s Rory Jones and Rolfe Winkler - Link
One of Peter Thiel’s venture capital firms has devolved into legal chaos - Vox’s Theodore Schleifer - Link
Here’s what WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann - Vox’s Shirin Ghaffary - Link
Why Are Clean Energy Veterans Flocking To Royal Dutch Shell? - Huffington Post’s Julian Spector - Link
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork - Bloomberg Video - Link

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NOVEMBER 18-24

Start-Up Series with John Adams of Mucinex
by Kendel Rogers
Monday, November 18, 2019 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
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1000 Montgomery Street Fort Worth, TX 76107
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Denton SHEPreneur Crowdfund Live
Monday, November 18th 2019 at 6:00 PM CDT
Stoke Coworking
608 E Hickory St #128 Denton TX, 76205
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Tarmac TX Demo Day
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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1023 Springdale Road #11A Austin, Texas 78721
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Digital Fight Club: Houston 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)
White Oak Music Hall
2915 N Main St. Houston, TX 77009
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Inside Billy's Brain: Surgeon, Inventor, Innovator
Wednesday November 20, 2019 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
JLABS @ TMC
2450 Holcombe Boulevard Houston, TX
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Southwest Muster Across America Tour in Houston
Friday, November 22, 2019 1:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
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1334 Brittmoore Road Houston, TX 77043
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Made In Houston: Game Changers In The Startup Scene
Tuesday, December 10th 6:30 – 9 pm CST
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1301 Fannin St, Floor 21 Houston, TX 77002
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Monday, November 11, 2019 at 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
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118 Nueces Ln, Austin, Texas 78701
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Austin Impact Accelerator
Community Showcase Day
Monday November 12th 2019 6PM
Impact Hub Monroe
411 W Monroe St, Austin, TX 78704
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TCO19 Shell Gamechanger Hackathon
November 13-15 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
InterContinental Houston
6750 Main St, Houston, TX 77030
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Demystifying Fundraising: A Boot Camp For Women Entrepreneurs
Presented by Women@Austin
Monday November 18 - Wednesday November 21 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
1145 W 5th St, Austin TX 78703
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Defense Innovation Summit
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Austin, TX 78701
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Venture Financing - From Seed to Series B
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Wednesday, November 20th 1:30pm - 6:30pm
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November 20-21, 2019
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