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Archive for August, 2009

Overcoming Irrationality

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Seems like a lot of decision-making going on these days makes little sense.  Government, corporations, individuals… not that they/our decisions ever made much logical sense before. I bring this up because I just finished an interesting book that deals with irrational behaviors and gives some very startup relevant observations.  In case you didn’t know, I’m [...]

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Dallas startup Traxo launched in beta

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I first met Andy Chen and Andres Fabris of Traxo last year when they came to pitch at HP Growth Partners.  They weren’t looking for enough money to fit into a typical VC fund, so they ended up raising angel funding. Honestly I didn’t really see the value of yet another social network, this time [...]

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Innovation is all around us

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

I can’t tell you how many entrepreneurs/innovators/idea people I see every week.  It amazes me when I hear that Dallas isn’t an innovation hub because I can hardly turn around without running into another startup.  It’s pretty cool.  It’s also why my partner and I are starting a new kind of fund in DFW.  We’re [...]

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