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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team.

Austin Startup

Meanwhile, Sales and Customer Success teams are plugging away, working remotely, as if nothing has changed. Sales and Customer Success teams have been “working remotely” for years with the most important people in your company… your customers. Because for them- it’s business as usual. What is the secret to remote work?

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. Austin, this time?—?to Bianca graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Supply Chain Management and Hispanic Studies.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

I apologize in advance that it is pretty hard-hitting but I want to be raw and honest with you in order to do my best to help you: We are at the tail-end of RISE week here in beautiful Austin. And, overall, it has been another great week for Austin, with TechStars announcing their launch, which I wrote about in this Lucky7 post.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. About 10 years ago they saw the customers were struggling with these packages. Well, many times customers can’t articulate that there is a problem. Even things like packaging.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Enjoy the list and see you in Austin! 05:00 PM: Eight Ways to Deal with Bastards – If 99% of your customers are fantastic, you’re still going to deal with bastards. Yes Radisson Austin – We can count on an abundance of news and information in a media-saturated age. Friday, March 12th. I like food.

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