Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

Share Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same.

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The Next Web

MAY 15, 2016

Running a website, selling a product, building a business – it’s all about incremental improvements based on user feedback. But what if your users aren’t sure what they want? Or what if they tell you one thing, but act in a different way? The key is user data: With the right data, you can find out what your users really think and how to make your site, product or business better.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2016

FINALLY!!! After years of waiting for equity-based crowdfunding rules to be adopted and put into effect following legislative approval of… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Hippoland

MAY 15, 2016

I was in Atlanta this past week and spoke at an event about raising capital. One of the questions from the audience was really interesting What’s the difference between angels and seed VCs? If you had asked that question 5 years ago, the answer would’ve been really different. It would’ve been something like: Angels: Uses his/her own money to do investments Writes small checks Mostly sole decision maker VCs: Uses 3rd party money to do investments (from limited partners) Writes large checks Mu

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2016

People ask me all types of questions about this epic roadtrip I’m on of visiting 35 cities in 40 days for Localeur, but they all more or… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2016

by Russell Cowdrey is the CEO and co-founder of Plum. It’s Monday morning and you’re on the metro on your way to work. You scroll through your Facebook feed, and ‘like’ a picture your ex has posted of a dopey kitten. Do you really like cats? And do you want your feed to become filled with them? We have become a generation of ‘likers,’ flippantly clicking on every photo, meme, or shared article that catches our eye, regardless of whether it is a topic that really interests us.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 15, 2016

When the connected society arrived on the back of the web, companies who made stuff moved to make networks to connect directly to their customers. But it kinda shows that they are more interested in the stuff they make, than the connections they need. The supply chain has moved from a set of separate steps, owned by different people, to a network which can be staffed by a single firm.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2016

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State — SUBSCRIBE View this email in your browser Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Start Up Blog

MAY 15, 2016

When the connected society arrived on the back of the web, companies who made stuff moved to make networks to connect directly to their customers. But it kinda shows that they are more interested in the stuff they make, than the connections they need. The supply chain has moved from a set of separate steps, owned by different people, to a network which can be staffed by a single firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. All the great ideas in the world won’t make a business, if the ideas never get implemented. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both.

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