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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

Another great spot to find emerging talent is the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards presented by KPMG on the evening of Monday, March 11 at the Austin Convention Center. 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.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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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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SXSW Interactive Names Girlstart’s Tamara Hudgins to its Hall of Fame

SiliconHills

South by Southwest has named Girlstart Executive Director Tamara Hudgins to its Interactive Hall of Fame for 2015. SXSW is honoring Hudgins for her work in expanding and developing the Austin-based nonprofit organization since 2009. Austin Girlstart SXSW Interactive'

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Twice in a Lifetime

Austin Startup

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Twice in a Lifetime was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology.

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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. Roger Dooley: Well if you … it is usually a bad thing, but that means that if you can eliminate it, you will have an advantage over your competition. Same thing for prescription drugs.

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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! Yes Radisson Austin – We can count on an abundance of news and information in a media-saturated age. Sponsored by SXSW Interactive, the International Game Developer’s Association of Austin, Mr. Data, Ricochet Labs and the Digital Media Council. Friday, March 12th.

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