Archive for: entrepreneurship

 

Despite Obstacles, Black-Owned Businesses Are on the Rise in Texas

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Black-owned businesses are growing fast in Texas—but they tend to be smaller than average, and black entrepreneurs face significant economic challenges, according...

 
 

“How Millenials Are Sparking Change”: Five Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurship is in. That was the message from a town hall event this week at UT’s Student Activities Center. Co-hosted by the Atlantic, National Journal,...

 
 

Report: UT’s Startup Incubator Has Created 6,520 Jobs

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For the past quarter-century, the Austin Technology Incubator—a startup hub based out of UT’s IC² Institute—has been quietly chugging along at the Pickle...

 
 

Rocky Mountain Chapter Talks Business With John Doggett

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Texas Exes chapters may be best known for their happy hours, chili cook-offs, and tailgates, but Longhorn alumni are just as serious about lifelong learning as...

 
 

UT Food Lab Grows an Organic Conversation

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Breathable chocolate, cheese with biodegradable packaging, and frozen yogurt pods that don’t melt: these futuristic food ideas sound like the stuff of fantasy. In...

 
 

Fishy Business

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UT grad Alan Blake commercialized the world’s first genetically modified pet: a glow-in-the-dark fish. A decade later, the glow hasn’t worn off. Walk into almost...

 
 

A Bottom-Line Focus Would Harm Texas’ Top Universities

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This article also ran in the Texas Tribune Over the past year in Texas, we’ve heard a vigorous debate about our public universities. Critics of Texas higher education...

 
 
 
 
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