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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

Building a product around the needs of actual users is the best way to develop something that will actually create value, but also to validate demand ahead of pouring more resources into your venture. Early adopters, especially those who are willing to pay for novel services, are the lifeblood of lean startups.

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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. Due to popular demand, we offered a late entry period this season through November 18. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards?

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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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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Meets the demand of the socially-conscious consumer. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service).

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? I couldn’t sew or draw so becoming a fashion designer was out.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Steve , on June 15, 2009 at 9:29 am Said: Ouch!