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The Austin Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

Austin Startup

The centerpiece of the pledge is the Walker Rule, which is inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the late Dan Rooney in 2003 and is now supported by his son, Art Rooney II, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the years following its implementation, the number of minorities hired to fill head-coach roles doubled.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

In case you haven’t heard of the website before, it allows you to register and hire professional consultants with top-tier qualifications, at a fraction of the cost you might otherwise have to pay, and in a fraction of the time. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. During this journey in building (recruiting, hiring, training and managing) e-commerce teams I realized how other e-commerce business owners were struggling to fulfill their marketing needs. Thanks to Victoria Wieck. #13- 13- Help people with marketing projects.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Although some freelancers can do both, the skills for design and development are typically different and you may want to leverage different people for each part of the job. Keep the content fresh and current.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Although some freelancers can do both, the skills for design and development are typically different and you may want to leverage different people for each part of the job. Keep the content fresh and current.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). framework was built.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk.