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TechEmpower Benchmarks and the Microsoft ASP.NET Core 1.0 Performance Story

SoCal CTO

I’ve had lots of conversations with fellow CTOs about the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks. Some really appreciate the value that they bring to help them understand performance characteristics of different frameworks. Depending on the Technical Performance Requirements for your system, this could be really valuable information that is part of your framework selection process.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

Given all that I’ve seen in my career I don’t sweat the small stuff. We didn’t talk about product; we didn’t talk about organization or raising money. We talked about our values, we talked about our hopes and dreams for the world, and that helped us realize why we were doing this project together. Startups aren’t only for twentysomethings.

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5 Mobile Apps Every Startup Needs To Use

YoungUpstarts

There are literally millions of apps on the app store, but which ones should be on your startup’s list? Well, not too many of them. It’s important that your startup has the best possible start in life, and that means being organized and decisive. The following five apps will help you be both those things, and we’ve thrown in a surprise along the way!

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Berlin: Startup Home As A Service

Feld Thoughts

I thought this was outrageously brilliant. Thanks to Andrew Hyde for sending it to me. For a long time I’ve ranted against naming your startup community “Silicon Whatever.” Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The LA startup community is called LA. The Washington DC startup community is called Washington DC.

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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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3 Steps To Hire Internationally For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Renee Pobjecky, Immigration Attorney at Pobjecky & Pobjecky, LLP. Have you ever been trying to fill a specific position at your company and you just can’t find the right fit? Maybe you have been keeping your search too local. The right employee may be located overseas! Using the H-1B visa system to hire a foreign worker can help you fill specialty roles at your company.

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I Started My First Business at Age 9: Here’s What Kids Can Learn from Being Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

When I was nine years old, I never dreamed that the small, quarter vending machine I owned would turn me into a small business owner and a college graduate. Wanting to inspire a sense of entrepreneurship and business in his daughter, my dad brought home a vending machine he had purchased from a friend. Setting it down in front of me in our living room, he asked—in all seriousness—“Do you want to start a business?”.

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The hardest thing about fundraising that no one talks about.

Hippoland

Fundraising is freakin’ hard. It’s time-consuming and draining. It requires being energetic and up 110% even when you’ve already been rejected a million times over. And, it’s a big sales job. But there’s one aspect of fundraising that no one talks about: how to balance growth and fundraising at the same time. For most companies, growing your revenue (or user base for consumer apps) while you’re fundraising is incredibly important, especially since the typical raise will span over a couple

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How to Develop a Positioning Statement for the Marketing Section of Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Positioning is the essence of marketing strategy, and some would say of all business strategy. It’s about how your business is different from the others. It’s about what your business does for people that other businesses don’t do. See Also: Business Planning Guide. The positioning statement template. I’m not sure where this classic positioning statement template started, or whom to credit, but I’ve found it very useful for years of developing business plans. “For [target market descriptio

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7 Productivity Hacks To Improve Your Daily Workflow

YFS Magazine

The more productive you become, the less overwhelmed you'll be. Here's a look at 7 overlooked productivity hacks that can really help you reign in "the busy" and get more done.

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Why I Unsubscribed 83,000 Emails (and Think You Should, Too)

ConversionXL

If you are an email marketer, chances are that the majority of the articles you read are about growing your list , getting more opens, clicks, etc. But what if your list is growing thanks to all those tips for improvement, but the open and click rates actually deteriorate? Are you doing something wrong? Not necessarily. The thing is that leads age – they become uninterested in what you have to offer for a variety of reasons (job changes, bankruptcy, already found a better product/service,

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A Look Inside the Fascinating Cannabis Branding and Marketing Boom

crowdSPRING Blog

For all the stereotypes about lazy, hapless stoners out there, those peddling green in states where recreational or medical marijuana use is legal sure know how to hustle. Make no mistake: the legal marijuana industry is booming, creating huge business opportunities and massive tax revenue incomes for their communities. As Forbes reports : The size of the market for legal marijuana in the United States is projected to grow to $7.1 billion in 2016, according to a report by New Frontier and ArcVie

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NewCo Conference Returns to Austin to Showcase the City’s Tech Industry

SiliconHills

NewCo Austin is a new kind of conference that takes people into the work spaces of some of Austin’s most innovative companies. The conference takes place on July 26th and 27th at various locations around town, and Capital Factory is hosting several sessions as an affiliate partner of the conference. This year, NewCo Austin expanded […] The post NewCo Conference Returns to Austin to Showcase the City’s Tech Industry appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Four Frequently Neglected Elements of Branding You Can’t Afford to Ignore

crowdSPRING Blog

When we talk about branding, we tend to talk a lot about marketing. We talk about logos and colors and persona and promises — all elements of how we present ourselves. Those elements are obvious crucial elements of any discussion about branding, and those conversations are important to a company’s growth. That said, there are other factors that impact the actual form of your brand.

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Austin Startups Attract $152 Million in Venture Capital During Second Quarter

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin is still doing well when it comes to attracting venture capital investment into its technology startups. During the second quarter, venture capitalists invested $152 million in 24 deals in Austin, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on […] The post Austin Startups Attract $152 Million in Venture Capital During Second Quarter appeared first on SiliconHills

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It’s all about the reps and mileage

Jeff Hilimire

I’m almost finished reading (well, listening to if I’m being honest) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, Total Recall. I’m sure I will write a post about this book. Of all the books I’ve read about entrepreneurs, I’m pretty close to saying Arnold might be the BEST example of a true entrepreneur. You’re probably confused by that statement, as I would have been before this book.

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Dell Medical School and Dell Seton Medical Center Win $300,000 Grant

SiliconHills

The Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin just launched with its first class of students this summer. Its goal is to rethink and reinvent the way healthcare is delivered to patients. And this week, Dell Medical School and the future Dell Seton Medical Center won a $300,000 grant to help resident […] The post Dell Medical School and Dell Seton Medical Center Win $300,000 Grant appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What entrepreneurial hacks can I develop to stay focused?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post What entrepreneurial hacks can I develop to stay focused? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Top 5 “Grown In Austin” Meal Delivery Options

Austin Startup

Updated: July 19, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Portrait of an Artist

Professor VC

In my professor role, many of my students look up to me (rightly or wrongly) as a teacher, mentor, advisor, confidante, and friend. I'm not always comfortable being put in that position, but have grown to enjoy that role as I've gotten older and (and perhaps although highly debatable) wiser. Two weeks ago, I lost my Dad, who had played all of those roles (plus many more) for me.

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Trump: Learn to Steal Smart

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Stealing Smart and Stealing Stupid. Melania Trump’s speech last evening at the GOP convention, and today’s subsequent media uproar and fiasco, is symbolic of several things in my view. Summarizing my themes here: Competence, Theft, and Ideas (or lack of them). I’ll take flack for writing this post, but understand, this is not about politics.