TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We love this! If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. Every time I watch one I marvel, this is Microsoft? Clearly we're seeing a new Microsoft. If you're not watching, you would have also missed how much emphasis the ASP.NET team is putting on performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5 million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Image credit: Warehouse from Shutterstock. There are many different reasons why you may need a type of storage unit. Perhaps you are moving home, for instance, in which case you need portable storage containers to not just move your belongings, but to bridge the gap between moving out and moving in as well. It is also possible that you simply don’t have enough space in your own home or office to store all your belongings.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I like posting the occasional robot video, and this one made my jaw drop. Check out the way the robot trips and recovers itself around 45s. Then see if you feel sorry for it when it’s human overlord starts being mean around 1m 22s.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you want to have a good online marketing strategy, you have to make sure that reputation management is part of that. Many expert online marketers focus on a range of different techniques, but have long overlooked the important of an online reputation. This is a problem, because reputation is everything. Not just that, reputation management is actually a vital part of search engine optimization (SEO) as well.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Blogging is a strong marketing strategy in the arsenal of any growing your business. It will aid marketing efforts, engage your audience, score quality
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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A group gathered at bleachers in a test field just off Culebra road on Monday as a giant red cab of an eighteen wheeler drove up and stopped along with a Ford Explorer, nicknamed Marti, and a Humvee. None of them had drivers. Most people have heard […] The post Driverless Vehicles and Other Projects Being Developed at Southwest Research Institute appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Image credit: Contract from Shutterstock. by Paige Zandri, Attorney Network Director at Priori Legal. From hiring your first employees to managing an entire staff, employment law runs the spectrum of employer-employee interactions. Labor laws and statutes in the United States are diverse and numerous – some are new while others are long-established.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The TechCrunch to Venture Capital path is well-understood, but TechCrunch to business school? Not quite yet the same trope. Alexia Tsotsis stepped away from her co-EIC role at TechCrunch last year to enroll in the Sloan program at Stanford – essentially a one year MBA. . Hunter Walk: So I know a bit about the Stanford Biz School Sloan Program you’re currently doing since my wife graduated from it too.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert may have been the vanguard of a new trend in business marketing. Over the last decade, online reviews have become one of the most important decision-making tools for buyers seeking the best price on electronics, the tastiest vegetable lo mein, the most trustworthy plumbing contractor, or the widest selection of shoes. Hundreds of thousands of Yelp, Foursquare, and Google+ reviewers are entering the fray and offering their own “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to help prosp

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

“We have come to rely upon capitalism for justice and the government for economic stimulation, precisely the opposite of what reason would suggest. Capitalism does not produce justice, any more than knife fights do. It produces winners and energy and growth. It is the job of government to channel that energy and growth into socially useful avenues, without stifling what it seeks to channel.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Do not let a lack in these areas hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Instead put your time and energy in creating a vision for your business and figuring out the direction you want to go. Make the decision to be successful today.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

You know that a good user experience leads to more conversions. You also know there’s always room for improvement, and you’re never done optimizing. There are always areas of opportunity. One of the biggest areas of opportunity, for most companies at this point in time, is mobile optimization. How is it different and how can you improve the mobile user experience?

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News Entrepreneurs from around Austin gathered at WeWork downtown for the second stARTup Studio of 2016, and had a chance to hear about innovations being developed at The University of Texas at Austin. The event, which began in 2013, is co-sponsored by WeWork, the Austin Chamber of Commerce […] The post Healthcare Robots and Software Showcased at stARTup Studio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

When I first joined the customer support team at crowdSPRING, I was convinced that every customer or creative needed detailed replies; the next great American novel in email response form. More content means good customer service , right? Boy, was I wrong about that. Think about your own experiences as a customer. Would you rather save time and get the answers you need, or take time to dig for the answers you need in lengthy verse?

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The focus of the Innovation Center in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin is to help professor led startups. To that end, the Innovation Center formed a grant fund and Wednesday announced its first two grant recipients. The center awarded grants to Professor Luis Sentis, who runs a robotics […] The post Two UT Professors Get Startup Grants from the Innovation Center appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you grew up when MTV was still a music channel you’ll remember that many music videos were recorded at live concerts… except that they weren’t. Nine out of ten of them we’re in filmed studios in a way which made things look bigger than they were. Clever camera work that looked like the band was already a big thing, when many times, the band was a new thing.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Travelling isn’t always the easiest time to stay fit, but these hacks can add some fit #inspo to your next trip.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Shopgate, a German-based mobile ecommerce company, announced Wednesday it is moving its U.S. headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto and plans to hire 50 local employees. Shopgate also announced Marc Biel as its Chief Executive Officer to lead its expansion into the U.S. market. Biel previously served as chief financial officer and chief operations officer […] The post Shopgate moves U.S.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from an old Ben Horowitz post lately: When they teach you how to drive a racecar, they tell you to focus on the road when you go around a turn. They tell you that because if you focus on the wall, then you will drive straight into the wall. If you focus on how you might fail, then you will fail. Focus on the target.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

How to Get Better at Public Speaking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Hugh Culver. Public speaking is hot these days – seems like I see a new book on TED or a new course on speaking on a daily basis. And I get it – many people dream of a career as a highly paid speaker. But, there’s something that not enough people are talking about.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Image credit: Car Coating from Shutterstock. Coating is all around us, even though we often don’t realize it. Essentially, it is the type of material that is used to be applied to any kind of substrate that has different functions and applications. Very simply put, they are materials that are put on something else in a very thin film. This is done for a variety of reasons, although barriers, protection and decorations of a surface are the most common ones.

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Brandanew

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Every now and then, we get stoked by some amazing social media stats that are relevant to business and individuals alike. In our second edition of showcasing social media and Twitter statistics you must know for your business, today we’re focusing on a few crunchable ones. Absorb, Tweet and share away with your teams! Remember, keeping an eye on market trends is just as important as creating loads of great content and is definitely a part of making your content strategies !

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

There is perhaps nothing more important to a business nowadays than its online reputation. The world is one huge digital place nowadays and it is very easy for people to find out information about a company, including its reputation. So easy, in fact, that almost 70% of people read them before deciding to shop somewhere or not. Unfortunately, however, the internet is also a place of rumors, often fake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you can’t deal with failure, then the entrepreneur lifestyle is not for you. Don’t believe that urban myth that all you need is a good idea, a little fun work, and the money will start rolling in. When you are pushing the limits, nobody gets it right the first time, or even maybe the tenth time. That’s why the term “pivot” was invented, so you don’t have to call every change a failure.

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