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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people. What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 16, 2020. If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

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How to Create an App Like UberEats

ReadWriteStart

Initially, Uber launched its vertical in the food delivery services with the name UberFresh. billion in the year 2020. As per the year 2020, UberEats has a user base of 66 million worldwide, which is thrice that of the year 2019. Mobile platforms. UberEats – King Of Food Delivery Apps.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Skilllab

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 17, 2020 Skilllab has a clear mission: to develop technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate refugees into local labor markets. With Skilllab’s mobile app, job seekers can identify and document their professional skills in 27 languages to explore possible career pathways.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , see the Quantstamp pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.