Why startups are betting big on Texas

Texas has courted many coastal transplants. A Fast Company panel at SXSW dug into the state’s explosive growth.

From left: Max Ufberg, Fast Company senior editor; LiveOak Ventures partner Mike Marcantonio; and Michael Sury, director of the Center for Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin [Photo: Maggie Boyd for Fast Company]

BY Anna-Louise Jackson

Everything is bigger in Texas, they say—including an economic boom there in recent years.

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