Fri.Nov 21, 2014

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Infocyte Raises $500K for Assessment Platform that Determines If a Network Has Been Hacked

Austin Startup

'Infocyte, Inc., a San Antonio-based cyber security startup, has secured $500k in additional seed funding to accelerate development of its’ assessment platform, Pulse. Led by Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners, the funding will be used to expand Infocyte’s development team ahead of their planned 1st Quarter 2015 product launch.

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5 Ways To Optimize Ecommerce On Small Business Saturday

YoungUpstarts

'by Rey Pasinli, Executive Director of Total-Apps. Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday created in 2010 by American Express. It encourages consumers to buy from small businesses on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. While it was originally aimed to persuade consumers to buy local at retail locations, you can still take advantage of this holiday with your eCommerce store.

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Productivity advice I learned from people smarter than me

The Next Web

'Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of The Obstacle Is The Way, the founder of Brass Check Marketing and gives monthly book recommendations to 30,000 people here. Like all people, I’d like to think I am a productive person. If I am, however, it’s because I’ve been ruthlessly efficient at one thing: stealing secrets and methods from people a lot smarter than me.

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Primary Problems with Enforcing Non-Compete Agreements

YoungUpstarts

' by Yasir Billoo, partner at Golden & Grimes LLP. Businesses often require employees to sign non-compete agreements to protect their business interests. However, just because an employee has signed a non-compete agreement does not make the agreement valid under the law. Employers often attempt to overreach on such agreements, which may make the entire agreement invalid.

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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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Friday fun and Xmas cheer: The TGIF mistletoe drone

The Equity Kicker

'Check out this brilliant video from the TGIF restaurant in Manchester where they hung mistletoe from a drone to get their customers kissing. The ‘Kisscam’ at 0.55 is my favourite moment. That’s quite put me in the mood for Christmas, and it’s not even December yet.

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The Latest Crop of Startups from Longhorn Startup Demo Day

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News From a ring that monitors glucose levels for diabetics to a mouth guard which tracks concussions in athletes, twelve student-run startups showcased their innovative ideas at the 7th Longhorn Startup Demo Day. The event held at the Lady Bird Johnson auditorium at the University of Texas at […] The post The Latest Crop of Startups from Longhorn Startup Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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WP Engine and Facebook Combine to Enhance Speed, Stability and Performance for HHVM

Austin Startup

'There has been a new technological advancement for PHP developers and the developer community as a whole. For the very first time PHP and HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), an open-source project created by Facebook, can now run side-by-side on the same server, vastly increasing speed, performance and stability for websites in production environments. By doing so, modern websites and applications with dynamic content built on HHVM can see an average response time increase of 560%.

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How To Get Your Slow Employees Working Faster

Mike Michalowicz

'Productivity, as any entrepreneur can attest to, is one of the, if not the most, important issues that a company has to deal with. Productivity gets things done, and when things get done, the company makes more money. But what happens if you have some employees that are just, well, slow? Don’t worry; it’s a common problem, and one that has a solution!

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Rackspace’s Chairman Invests Millions in its Stock

SiliconHills

'Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston has been bullish on his company since he made his initial investment to found the hosting company in 1999. And now, he’s investing even more in the San Antonio-based managed cloud company. This week, Weston announced he has purchased $2.5 million or 58,400 shares of the company’s stock on the open […] The post Rackspace’s Chairman Invests Millions in its Stock appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Social Media Gives Consumers and Brands a Direct Connection

Duct Tape Marketing

'Social Media Gives Consumers and Brands a Direct Connection written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Jessica Davis – Enjoy! . photo credit: Matt Hamm via photopin cc. Remember a time when it was not possible to share your opinions about a specific product with others because there was no outlet.

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Twitter Link Roundup #244 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Today is Friday and I am off to pick up a new puppy! Yep, you heard me right, new addition to the family! Well enough about cute little balls of fluff – it’s time for our weekly roundup of the great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ). We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesti

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How Entrepreneurs Must Prepare For The Unthinkable

Startup Professionals Musings

'Most entrepreneurs are so convinced that they are the disruptive element, they fail to anticipate that unknown facts or events can and will occur to disrupt their own well-laid plans. While it’s true that there is no way of know specifically what might happen, you need to anticipate the worst, and actually build a Plan B. People who haven’t thought about a Plan B often don’t survive the shock.

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