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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Your website is designed for you, not for your customers. You want to incorporate a design trend or best practice. Let’s look at each of these in detail to help you assess how you can make your website design work for you, rather than against you. As we wrote previously : A brand is more than logo design.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

In other words, consumer-facing startups are likely to find a grateful and sizeable audience within and beyond the city limits. Another notable Austin-bred phenomenon is the Alamo Drafthouse — is cinema chain founded in 1997 that is famous for its food and drink service as well as maintaining proper cinema etiquette.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. It’s designed to provide capacity to nonprofits in the areas that they’re weakest. Audience questions: Q: When is a startup no longer a startup?

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. My very first job I was working as a jewelry designer in the diamond district in New York.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

I have a designated place to work: my home office, a co-working space, or a coffee shop. The best advice I can give to fellow entrepreneurs when it comes to staying motivated is to maintain close connections with your users, customers, or audience. So I’ll work from 7 to 10, work out, shower and back to work. I eat at my desk.