Tue.Feb 07, 2017

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Digital Marketing: 2017 Trends To Look Out For

YoungUpstarts

by Adam Blackford-Mills, Head of Digital at MRS Digital. We’ve made it through the first month of 2017 and the New Year’s hype has died down. Now is the time to focus on the upcoming months, make business plans and set goals. Looking ahead at what’s in store for businesses and digital marketing this year, there are some fascinating trends and predictions about what the next big thing is going to be.

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Why You’re Not Consistent In Business

YFS Magazine

So many of us struggle with consistency. Here are 5 common reasons why you are not consistent in business and what you can do about it. This article Why You’re Not Consistent In Business appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Protecting Small Business Data – Six Steps

YoungUpstarts

by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International. Even the smallest of businesses relies on data. Whether it’s detailed schematics on a product, a formulation for a new medicine, or a list of customers, data is invaluable. Protecting this information is vital for the success of any small business, but unfortunately data security is often an afterthought.

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My next chapter of VC: More data!

Version One Ventures

On the heels of being named principal last week, I am humbled by Boris’s announcement and thrilled to begin leading deals for Version One. While many of you have already worked with me directly or read my thoughts on this blog over the years, I want to take the opportunity to share my goals: what I’m working on, where I can be the most helpful, and where I’d like to go from here.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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5 Ways A Business Consultant Can Grow Your Company

YoungUpstarts

Have you ever thought about hiring a business consultant to help you grow your business? It’s a decision that could change the fortunes of your company forever and make it a more efficient and profitable venture. Below are some of the ways these business experts can grow your organization: Your Resources Will Be Used in a More Effective Way. Some businesses have all the resources they need to become a success.

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How I Defined Success On My Own Terms

YFS Magazine

Have you considered what it means to define success on your own terms? These success tips will help you go out into the world and make your own rules! This article How I Defined Success On My Own Terms appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Serving Up Savings: Tax Tips for Food Truck Owners

Up and Running

Do you feed hungry customers all around town in your food truck? If so, you’re part of the in-demand mobile food industry that is commonly found in major U.S. cities where people are eager to grab a quick bite for a reasonable price. While making money to cook up tasty treats can be enjoyable, there are lots of federal, state, and local tax rules that apply to running a food truck business.

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Soggy In San Francisco

Feld Thoughts

I arrived this morning to a downpour and a city that feels exceedingly waterlogged. I’m sitting at a coffee shop in Berkeley in advance of a talk I’m giving on Startup Communities , a topic that to me suddenly feels even more relevant than before given the self-inflicted chaos going on at a macro level in America. As things unfold, I’m calmly pondering the next 20 years as I put the final touches on a presentation for a talk at the Greenspring Associates annual meeting later t

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How might startups and entrepreneurs match up with cities to solve shared civic challenges?

Austin Startup

Are you looking to find a dynamic way to help build, prototype, or validate a solution in one of America’s largest cities? Want an… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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What is Leadership?

David Cohen

Recently Steve Wulchin (who has also been an investor in our funds at Techstars since the beginning) was asked by two of his nieces to talk to them about leadership. As part of his preparation for the session, Steve polled a number of people that are in leadership positions, including me. These are people that Steve has known for years, and their experiences cover a wide range of leadership roles in a variety of organizations.

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Rackspace Lays Off 6 Percent of its U.S. Workers

SiliconHills

Three months after its $4.3 billion acquisition by Apollo Global, Rackspace Tuesday announced it is cutting 6 percent of its U.S. workers. Founded in 1998, Rackspace is one of San Antonio’s largest technology companies with about 5,000 employees worldwide. It has about 3,700 employees based at its headquarters at the former Windsor Park Mall in […] The post Rackspace Lays Off 6 Percent of its U.S.

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Why Many Companies Mistakingly Think Trolls & Harassment Are Good for Business

Hunter Walker

A live mic. They gave me a live mic at last week’s Upfront Summit to interview Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian. Our discussion lasted about 20 minutes but that was sufficient time to cover his open letter on immigration , Reddit’s community standards, his feelings about tech’s role in politics and the opportunity he now has to become more than just “tech famous” if he so desires.

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SubVRsive Lands $4 Million in Funding and Hires New CEO

SiliconHills

SubVRsive, a cinematic virtual reality production house, announced it has received $4 million in funding and hired a new Chief Executive Officer. WPP, a global communications services company, invested in the Series A round. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2015, hired Johannes Larcher as its CEO. He most recently served as executive at Hulu, the […] The post SubVRsive Lands $4 Million in Funding and Hires New CEO appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mobile Game Development Experience (Goal: 12 Weeks and 100K Download)

Austin Startup

How difficult would it be to create a game with 100K downloads on mobile platforms? When we started to think about the required steps for a game (scripts/coding, characters, technical/mechanical features, environment design, UI/UX designs, and launching/marketing) we thought that we should share the difficult development steps with everyone; especially the people who say, “Let’s build a game on mobile because it’s easy to make money there”.

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Carvana Opens a Coin Operated Car Buying Vending Machine in Austin

SiliconHills

Just like buying a can of Coke, a giant Carvana fully-automated coin-operated car vending machine will deliver consumers cars. It opens in Austin Tuesday morning. Carvana, the online used car buying platform, has installed a car vending machine located to the South of Stassney Lane at 6014 S. IH 35. It has a similar machine […] The post Carvana Opens a Coin Operated Car Buying Vending Machine in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Monetizing Twitter

Austin Startup

I’ve been on the Twitter bandwagon as an investor for a little over a year. After the stock cratered to $26 a share I thought it was cheap… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How to Deal with Outliers in Your Data

ConversionXL

One thing many people forget when dealing with data: outliers. Even in a controlled online experiment , your dataset may be skewed by extremities. How do you deal with them? Trim them out, or is there some other way? How do you even detect the presence of outliers and how extreme they are? Especially if you’re optimizing your site for revenue, you should care about outliers.

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Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence or You’ll be a Dinosaur in 3 Years

Both Sides of the Table

Mark Cuban opened the Upfront Summit in an epic interview by Jason Hirschhorn , founder of Media REDEF. Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur to investing outside of Silicon Valley and of course Trump and sports. But perhaps to most insightful was their discussion about Machine Learning / AI.