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Austin’s CodeNEXT

Austin Startup

Picture Description: CodeNEXT Logo and Tag Line: “Shaping The Austin We Imagine” Will Austin’s revised land development codes hurt or help people with disabilities? Urbanization is one of the most important global trends of the 21st century. It has the potential to contribute to the “re-design” of our world supporting the creation of sustainable, accessible, and inclusive cities for all.

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Bypass The Brain’s Default Mode To Improve Innovation

YoungUpstarts

by Ed Harrington, CEO at Ideas To Go and co-author of “ Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward “ Every business relies on cutting-edge ideas to stay ahead of the competition. Success hinges on maximizing the efforts needed to take a product from idea to development to launch. An important consideration for product development teams that can boost their capacity to generate new ideas and find creative solutions involves learning to

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5 Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Stop Working Late

YFS Magazine

If you don’t take conscious control of your own work hours, the work hours can easily take control of you.

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The Tax Advantages To Investing In Oil And Gas Your CPA’s Probably Never Heard Of

YoungUpstarts

by Casey Minshew , COO of EnergyFunders. Investing in oil and gas as a new and alternative tax strategy can be a great way to substantially reduce your tax burden*. But chances are, your CPA hasn’t mentioned it. That’s because, like doctors, CPAs specialize. And the same way an ENT doctor wouldn’t advise you on how to treat, say, a rash, a CPA who doesn’t live in one of the few states where oil and gas is a major commodity isn’t likely to advise a client on its adva

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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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You name the price; I’ll name the terms.

Berkonomics

I admit that my dad taught me this when I was just a fifteen–year old kid starting a business and negotiating with suppliers for the first time. But I learned it again and again in my various business lives. The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash.

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5 Most Valuable Degrees For Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are starting your first business or running a successful business, you need the relevant skills and knowledge to sustain business growth. Earning one or two degrees will take your business to a higher level of profitability than you ever thought possible. You need education for personal growth as well. If you have ever thought of going back to school to run your business better, here are some degree programs that you can pursue. 1.

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Talking Australia and Texas Technology Collaboration on Australia Day

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Steven Ciobo, the minister for trade, tourism and investment for Australia, spent Australia Day, the day Australians celebrate the founding of its nation, in Austin. “There is a strong focus in continuing to diversify the Texas economy and therein lays the opportunity as I see it,” Ciobo […] The post Talking Australia and Texas Technology Collaboration on Australia Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mentor Shares Lessons On Balancing Business And Motherhood

YFS Magazine

Lessons on how to reach your full potential both as a mother and as a professional.

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How to Diagnose Your Traffic Issues with These SEO Tools

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Diagnose Your Traffic Issues with These SEO Tools written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Believe it or not, SEO is not a rocket science. In most cases, it comes down to the most obvious common sense things, like easy-to-understand website structure, well-written relevant copy, carefully picked descriptive page titles, etc. Some more complicated problems may occur (those that require professional help) from time to time, but in most cases, you can identify and fix things w

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Transformify Joins WEConnect International to Empower Women Entrepreneurs and Advocate Their Rights in Europe

Transformify

Feeling out of place in a corporate work culture? Hayley felt the same way. Too many career growth limitations, too many boundaries hard to stay within. She really tried to make it work for a while, but her life had a major turnaround when she approached her 40 th birthday. “Approaching that big date and reflecting on my life I understood that life’s too short to spend it this way, that I didn’t want to play on the safe side anymore.

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IBM Watson Workspace Hackathon

Austin Startup

Last weekend General Assembly + IBM Watson Work teamed up for a national hackathon which took place at 3 GA campuses: Los Angeles, New York… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Colorado Innovation Training

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

A brief post to make sure you know about the upcoming Denver, CO public course in Advanced Innovation Facilitation. This is a high value training. It’s partially sponsored so the price is much lower than usual. Here’s a page with details. It’s next week Starting Wednesday February 1, continuing on Feb 2, finishing at noon on Feb. 3rd.

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Our bathrooms don’t need more legislation

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s mission is about connecting people together to help them reach their full potential and solve some of the world’s biggest… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Post-Purchase Emails: How to Boost Retention and LTV

ConversionXL

A common mistake ecommerce store owners make is accepting the sale as the end-goal. It is easy for brands to think in such a transactional way; looking beyond each purchase can prove challenging. A 2014 survey by Econsultancy revealed , “Just 42% of companies are able to measure customer lifetime value.” Though the remaining 58% understand the importance of customer loyalty and retention, they may find it difficult to execute and analyze customer happiness and conversion campaigns.