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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

The Growth Edition (April 29th-May 1st) is for companies whose founders are already making a full-time living from their software products. The Starter edition is for founders who are not currently making a full-time living from their software products but who seek to do so in the future. Business of Software. Seattle, USA.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. They had me lay off the entire team of seven designers and then laid me off. Thanks to Andrea Heuston, Artitudes Design ! #2-

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The product design sprint: prototype (day 4)

www.gv.com

At the Google Ventures Design Studio, we have a five-day process for taking a product or feature from design through prototyping and testing. We call it a product design sprint. This is the sixth in a series of seven posts on running your own design sprint. This part of the sprint is super exciting for me as a designer.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices. … “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design. Template Startup Financial Model.

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29 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They’re Making in Their Business as a Result of Pandemic

Hearpreneur

When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. To prepare for this we invested in Virtual Tour cameras and software and packaged it with our other services. We now design homes for the less affluent.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

View More in Seattle ›. Seattle Events ›. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›.