The German Cowboy drinks Americano

Austin American Statesman, July 5th 2007:

The German Cowboy drinks Americano

A chat with Sylvester Becker, the creator of Austin Business Babes.

It began not on the high plains or even down Mexico way on horseback. It started, really, on the face of a blank business card.

Sylvester Becker, an emigre from Stuttgart, Germany, in 2004 was moving to Austin with his wife, Dana Minney, and newborn twin sons.

He'd been living in New York, working on his own video production business and taking seminars on business with executive coach Martin Sage. If he were to list everything he wanted to do in his new life on a business card, nobody would understand it all.

"A friend of mine said, 'When you go to Austin, that's Texas; you become the German Cowboy.' I thought, 'That sounds not bad!' "

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