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Silicon Collar excerpt The Sum of All Fears

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My new book, Silicon Collar, which will be released in Kindle format on Friday, is on balance a positive book about the impact of automation on jobs, but as I write “While the practitioners I interviewed were positive about the.

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6 Ways To Find A Fundable Startup Market Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away.

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How To Make Your IT Future Proof

YoungUpstarts

by Shaun McKay, Managing Director of LeadingEdge Technology Ltd. The future, they say, belongs to those who prepare for it today. In the ever-changing world of technology, small businesses need to be flexible and savvy to keep their competitive edge. The most important way to do this is to make sure that your tech is future-proofed and able to support business growth and change.

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Book: A Truck Full of Money

Feld Thoughts

In case you are curious, based on the feedback I got to Is Republishing To Medium Worth It? , the answer, at least for now, appears to be Yes. So, if you are reading this on Medium, enjoy! I’m a huge Tracy Kidder fan. I read The Soul of A New Machine as a senior in high school and, even though I don’t include it in the reason I went to MIT, I’m sure it played a part.

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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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What To Look For In A Great Staffing Company

YoungUpstarts

Need to fill some positions in your company fast? Better call up the staffing agency! Every business has been in this position at one time or another. Do you know what to look for in a great staffing company? In this article, we will share what makes these agencies truly great for business owners that are in a bind: 1. Do they deal with the talent that you’re looking for?

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Longhorn Startup kicks off our 9th Semester at UT Austin

Austin Startup

Last Thursday we kicked off the semester with the largest class ever — more than 150 student entrepreneurs from every corner of the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How To Find Business Software That Takes The Company At The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

Every single company in the world is thinking about profits. This is quite normal. Business growth is a priority for most CEOs out there. The big problem in many cases is that this is something that is expensive. In order to help you make smart decisions, Charles Phillips offers some advice that can be taken into account. He is currently highly respected in the business world because of the work he did for Infor.

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A Must Read Book for the Educated Class

Both Sides of the Table

I just finished Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. I can’t recommend this book strongly enough. I loved it in so many ways. J.D. grew in a single-parent (often zero parent) lower-income home in Middletown, Ohio and spent much of his youth also in his family’s cultural home of Jackson, Kentucky. His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy and lack of social mobility.

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