Entrepreneurship Analysis

Stephen Austin was born on the Third of November in the year of 1793 at Austinville, Virginia. His family was one that made their wealth through the booming industry of lead mining. When he became fourteen years old, Austin went to study at Transylvania University in Kentucky; after two and a half years of study, he would never finish as his father needed his assistance to run his store. Also, this experience in running a store would provide Stephen F. Austin with “the excellent business habits and knowledge of human nature,” which would be useful for his future career as well as the title as the Father of Texas (Father of Texas, 14). His experience from this métier would be necessary for the formation of

Austin, Texas, home to the Texas Longhorns and Bevo, as like football Austin has a rich and long history. Austin was founded in 1837 and was name after Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas. After Texas Gained independence in 1837 Austin became the capitol until 1842 when Sam Houston, the current Republic President at the time, moved it to Houston which was a city named after him since he was the hero

Born in 1973, Stephen F Austin is quite a crucial character in the history of Texas. Though he was born in the Wythe County in Virginia, Stephen spent most of his time during his youth in Missouri (Henderson 4). His father, Moses had a lead mining job that gave him enough returns to take Stephen to the best schools in the county. Moses however later lost the family business in the financial panic that took place in 1819 (6). Stephen is remembered for his several achievements during his time that paved way to the independence of Texas. The achievements he made earned him a lot of credit which is evident in the many institutions in Texas that are named after him such as Stephen F. Austin State University and the Stephen F Austin State Park which

The Texas State Historical Association affirms that the city of Austin was established in 1839 as the Republic of Texas and was named after its founder Stephen F. Austin (Humphrey, 2010). Head surveyor Edwin Waller was appointed to plan and construct Austin. Their intent was to have the city ready by the time the Texas congress assembled in November 1839 so they built temporary government buildings at temporary locations (Humphrey, 2010). By October government offices opened, the first church was organized, and the Austin City Gazette, the city’s first newspaper, made its debut. In January of 1840, Waller was elected the town’s first mayor. By that time, the city had 856 inhabitants, including 145 slaves (Humphrey, 2010). Initially

- Austin economy had always been universities and government as the state capital. Austin had a government workforce of over 110,000 including state, country and city employees and plus recently added 3,000 government sector jobs,

This is a point where Mexico only had 3,500 native Mexicans settled in Texas; so in 1821, the Spanish government granted permission to Austin to settle 300 families in Texas. Austin’s luck was about to turn around for him with this deal. On the other hand, he would not see his vision come to fruition, as he would perish on a return trip from Mexico City after being robbed. Before his untimely passing, his son Stephen F. Austin promised his father he would carry out the task and see it until the end.

Austin is the largest city in the southern part of the United States, the capital of Texas. The city's population is growing rapidly, and in 2014 there were more than 912 000 inhabitants. Together with suburbs it is 1,7 million. In 1839, the village named Waterloo was renamed in Austin, in honor of Stephen Fuller Austin - a man who played an important role in the history of Texas. In 1846, Austin became the capital of Texas.

Austin’s planned settlement of Texas hit many snags between 1821 and 1830, not least of which was the fact that Mexico achieved independence in 1821, meaning he had to re-negotiate his father’s grant. After many delays and frustrations with the Mexican government, Stephen F. Austin introduced a large number of colonists from the

According to Techtarget.com, ”Silicon Valley continues to be one of the country 's leading regions for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for about one-third of all venture capital investment in the United States” (Rouse). Based on this statement, readers would think that the residents

One of the most outstanding characteristics of the innovation powerhouse Silicon Valley that helped Tesla as a startup is the intrinsic network of facilities infusing the entire environment. Some of the most prestigious research universities in the world (e.g. University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco; Stanford University) are authorities of new technologies and inventions. As a startup, Silicon Valley’s top researchers provided Tesla the opportunity of exploiting these growing pool of talent by collaborating with them. In fact, Tesla and Berkeley teamed up to research on solar storage technologies (SolarCity, 2010) that would later on help Tesla to start building solar-powered charging stations for their electric cars (Parrott, 2015). Tesla had access to a deep reservoir of top technical talent and knowledge that would help to conduct innovative

Chevron Technology Ventures Investments searches for early-stage companies working on new technologies and helps these gifted entrepreneurs realize their vision. Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.

In today’s world full of improvisations and fast paced technology innovations, the word “Startup” is quiet common. Everybody who has a potentially worthy idea, that would revolutionize the world or at least make them profits, draws up a business plan, raises money and sets out on a path to make it happen. This report is a sincere attempt of capturing my summer internship experience at a startup I5 Dynamics, Inc. based in Research Triangle Park (RTP) which develops Enterprise Resource Planning Software with a unique value proposition. My ten week internship began with me listing down my learning objectives and discussing it with my supervisor, who was also the CEO of the company. To accomplish those objectives, I had to work on simultaneous projects, which in turn, helped me improve my professional and personal skills. In this report, I am going to elaborate on how my objectives influenced my involvement and how my active contribution resulted in the successful realization of what I can do as a result of this internship experience.

Governments around the globe have been trying to stimulate economic growth by encouraging entrepreneurship and creating innovations. Many entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas had limited availability of financial resources. For more then thirty years Venture Capital was able to match bright ideas of entrepreneurs with cash-rich investors, benefiting the economy by creating new jobs and generating wealth.

Venture capital has been the driving force behind some of the most vibrant sectors of the US economy over the past two decades. Venture capitalists were instrumental in fostering the tremendous growth of firms such as Microsoft, Compaq, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, which were all founded less than 20 years ago, but have rapidly become dominant players in the high technology arena. While the contributions venture capital makes to the economy overall are underexplored, there exists a widespread belief that

The Harvard Business Review case study "Networked incubators: Hothouses of the new economy" was clearly written during the heady days of the dot.com revolution. It is a rosy vision of how a number of 'accelerator' firms attempted to capitalize on the dot.com boom by incubating start-up organizations by providing them support ranging from physical structures (including housing many of the firms within the same office space in divided cubicles) to actual venture capital support. Most of the firms in the article are no longer solvent. However, one lesson which can be learned from the article is that networking can be valuable: i.e., the creation of an environment where networking and connections between members of the organization can be fostered in a positive manner and profit both the incubator firm and the incubated firm. The organizations which were the most successful in these ventures actively encouraged networking between the firms in their portfolio of start-ups and engaged in networking with firms outside of the organization.