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15 Events to Attend at the Sixth Annual Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

It’s hard to believe six years have flown by since the first Austin Startup Week kicked off with their first event at the Tiniest Bar in Texas. And Silicon Hills News, which is on its sixth year in business as the premier technology media startup covering Austin and San Antonio, was there to cover it. […] The post 15 Events to Attend at the Sixth Annual Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growth is Overrated… Especially if You Can't Manage It!

Small Business Force

Growth is the objective of all business. It is said (in fact, I have said it), if you’re not growing, in these times, you’re not even standing still; you’re going backwards! But growth, brings its own challenges and if you can’t manage it, it can, often, be worse than not growing. Bigger is not better; it’s only bigger.

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The U.S. IPO Market is Seeing a Slowdown in 2016

SiliconHills

The good news is there is an Initial Public Offering or IPO market, said Daniel Klausner, managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers based in New York. “At times, I think it’s been dormant or hidden,” he said. “September has been a great month.” But overall the IPO market in the U.S. is on track to have the […] The post The U.S. IPO Market is Seeing a Slowdown in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Start Your New Venture Without Quitting Your Day Job

Startup Professionals Musings

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. But not many of us have enough savings to live for a year or more without a salary, fund the startup, and still feed the family. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue.

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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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SXSL Kicks Off Monday at the Whitehouse

SiliconHills

Salon Magazine dubbed President Obama “Commander in Cool” for launching the first SXSL: South by South Lawn festival which takes place on Monday at the White House. The day-long celebration is fashioned after Austin’s highly successful SXSW, which President Obama attended and spoke at last March. The SXSL event features a number of talks on […] The post SXSL Kicks Off Monday at the Whitehouse appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Build a product that fits your runway

Hippoland

What product you should build as an entrepreneur should, in large part, be based on your runway. For example, very few entrepreneurs could have built Tesla, because most entrepreneurs are either not super rich or not able to raise tons and tons of money right out of the gate. This seems pretty obvious. But, everyday I see entrepreneurs trying to build products that are way out of the scope of their runway.

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