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Take 5 minutes to help other Austin entrepreneurs and vote in the SXSW Panel Picker!

Austin Startup

The Senate hearing with Mark Zuckerberg revealed how little our political leaders actually understand what’s going on, but we’re still bound by the decisions they make regarding the technology we use on a daily basis. Cultivating Conditions For Inclusion What is a Fractional Executive (CTO, CMO, CFO)?

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When I started my consulting business, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who guided me, and the best advice she gave me was to name my company something about myself, but not my actual name. It came gradually until I realised that I was constantly coming back to Net Lawman and comparing with others. 8- Homage to my heritage.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

In this conversation Eren and I talked about his journey from a small town in Turkey to founding the education startup Udemy, also quite successful, to Carbon Health and eventually Carbon Health's vaccination efforts. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. His number one takeaway is one we have heard again and again. million vaccines.