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To: combjelly who wrote (875478)	7/26/2015 11:37:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587522

TAMU has some great resources. Google, for example, just loves the Computer Science department. The Ag Sciences are pretty strong. Just to name two that should have a lot of practical spinoffs. Now one company that was in the incubator a few years back produces that do celestial navigation. It takes a few snapshots of the star patterns and pumps out where in the solar system you are. With commercial asteroid exploitation on the near horizon, they could do very well. Not saying its impossible to turn a city into a tech center; just tough...........and a certain amount of luck is involved as well. For an example, Gates and Allen started MSFT in New Mexico. However, both men were from Seattle and they were having trouble recruiting programmers in Albuquerque; and so moved the company to Seattle. In that instance, Seattle lucked out. Ditto with Qualcomm in San Diego. It just happened that the founders were professors at UC San Diego. As you know, back then, there weren't angel investors. A city and/or state had the luxury to nurture their tech companies without fear of poaching. That's all changed now. For an example, a number of Seattle start ups have had their 'angels' force them to move to Silicon Valley. The larger tech companies poach the smaller ones in order to keep up their growth in revenues and profits. I think its much harder these days for a city to get a foothold in tech.