Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors Every week we meet incredible entrepreneurs from all over the country and all over the world who would move to Austin if they only had some funding. This April, one startup is going to get their chance! We’ll fly five of them to Austin for an epic pitch-off resulting in one of them receiving $100,000 in seed funding and a year of free access to Capital Factory’s coworking facility an

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2017

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. For minimum content, see my original article “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2017

by Amir Noghani, General Manager at GWM SEO Agency. Google’s main consistency is that it’s constantly changing. There have been many changes in local search during the last couple of years, some of the most recent being 3-pack ads in local results. The sidebar ads are gone, so you have to scroll further to see the local results. In order to stay ahead of the game, you need to determine what your main goals are, and formulate a local SEO strategy.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Let’s stop and recognize all of the amazing people on the SXSW team who work all year round to make these two of the best weeks in Austin. Their focus is always putting everyone else in the limelight, but they deserve a lot of credit for making it happen year after year. It’s hard to talk about the magic of SXSW without mentioning Hugh Forrest , Director of Programming.

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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

MARCH 19, 2017

We spend a staggering 9,000 hours at work every year. In total, this equates to around one-third of our entire lives. So, if you do not have a job that you love, time at the office can be a major source of frustration. While it is not always easy to balance job satisfaction with the rising cost of living, the reality is that you are the one in control.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Latinitas Reports from SXSW 2017 Generating perspective through storytelling is not a completely new concept and filmmaking is one of the mediums that has had a stronghold on this for quite a while now. Virtual reality (VR) is one of the latest technological shifts in entertainment and its potential is causing many film and media industry leaders to evolve from skeptics into prominent advocates.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Donnell Creech plans to take SXSW by storm this year while developing effective ways to progress diversity in tech Donnell Creech is a black tech professional striving to improve workplace diversity and leadership development among minorities in the field of tech. To do this, Creech founded MVMT50, a coalition of Black thought leaders committed to sustained and systematic improvement in employment diversity, cultural representation and leadership development in the innovation, technology and dig

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 19, 2017

I just finished listening to Trevor Noah’s book, Born a Crime , on Audible. He reads the book, which is why I highly recommend you consider listening to it. Trevor Noah, if you aren’t aware, is a comedian from South Africa. He replaced Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show. He’s been particularly hilarious – and on point – with his assessment of the current political situation we find ourselves in.

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Hippoland

MARCH 19, 2017

Storytelling goes a long way in fundraising for your company. One of the biggest components of this is differentiating your product / your company from others. Differentiation is very difficult — there are so many entrepreneurs who are doing something similar to you and also so many alternatives that achieve the same results as your product / solution.

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