YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

'by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably. Consumers can now conduct a wide variety of bank-related transactions from the comfort of their computers, tablets and mobile devices.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2015

'Science is fun! And, for sure, CERN’s Alice project is fun, but even more fun is a drone’s-eye-view of the experimental site and down down down a cavern shaft to 60m underground! OK now catch your breath. Why? Because it’s time for our own flyover drone shot, AKA our weekly Roundup! Here is a whole slew of great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

'By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. What does it take to get to that level?

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Up and Running

APRIL 3, 2015

'Thanks to the huge range of accounting applications available for today’s small and medium-sized businesses, it’s easier than ever to keep an accurate record of where your business’s money is going. While accounting software has made bookkeeping and accounting easier for small businesses, it’s also made errors and accounting mistakes—from incorrectly categorizing a transaction to doing all accounting yourself—much more common.

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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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The Next Web

APRIL 3, 2015

'Ash Read is the founder of Nudge, a Twitter community management and customer service tool. This article first appeared on Medium. I’m not gonna lie to you. Building a product is really, really hard work. Especially when you can’t push the pixels and dive into the codebase yourself. As a non-technical person, starting a software business can seem like an uphill battle.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2015

'B2C becomes B2B every time someone walks into an office with their smartphone in their pocket. It’s been amazing over the last 18 months to see Shyp make organic inroads into small businesses, retailers, marketing departments, etc not because they’ve targeted these customers or because the product has evolved specifically in their direction (more work to be done!

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SiliconHills

APRIL 3, 2015

'Interactions plans to hire 400 analysts at its technology center in Austin. The company, based in Franklin, Mass., provides natural language virtual assistant solutions and reports its business is booming. Interactions’ virtual assistant technology combines “Watson speech and natural language technology with human intelligence to substantially boost understanding.” “The position of the Intent Analyst is […] The post Interactions Set to hire 400 Analysts in Austin a

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2015

'How to Write a Press Release written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s Guest Post is by Nash Riggins, Enjoy! The web is filled to the brim with static content. That’s bad news if you’re an up-and-coming business owner because there’s a never-ending sea of competition out there – and so if you want your brand to stand out, you’re going to have to move beyond that generic company blog and start making some real headlines.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 3, 2015

'CognitiveScale has announced the formation of a healthcare business unit and the hiring of Charles Barnett, a 30-year healthcare executive and former executive chairman of the board of Seton Family Healthcare, as president of the new unit. The Austin-based startup’s new healthcare unit “will apply cognitive computing to improve the treatment and care of people […] The post CognitiveScale Forms Healthcare Business Unit and Hires Former Seton Executive appeared first on SiliconH

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Rob Go

APRIL 3, 2015

'I’m feeling particularly blessed today. And it’s not just because it’s Good Friday. Nancy has been traveling a bunch the last month. I think she was gone 14 nights in the past 30 days. It was pretty tough with my own travel schedule, but we got through it and am really glad that she’s back for a while. I’m grateful that we have great help and support through my in-laws and our au pair who allow us to handle these sorts of life fluctuations.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 3, 2015

'Austin-based Conceivable announced it has raised $800,000 in seed stage funding to launch its fertility program. The startup raised the funding from a group of investors including former and current patients, successful healthcare executives and former venture capitalists. Conceivable has created an app, available from the Apple App Store, that can track a woman’s menstrual […] The post Fertility Startup Conceivable Launches with $800,000 in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on Sili

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