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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

CareerPlug and Chargify first partnered together in 2018 after CareerPlug recognized it had a significant business problem that fellow Texas-based Chargify could solve. About CareerPlug Since 2007 CareerPlug has worked to make hiring easier for over 12,000 growing companies in the U.S. and Canada.

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

ReadWriteStart

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. More importantly for startups, “global firms received more than twice as much funding from venture capitalists as firms with U.S. This is no longer the case. More lucrative, too.

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The Great Resignation is Accelerating: Here’s What You Should Do

Board Effect

Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, coined the term the Great Resignation, and it was so apropos that it caught on rapidly and globally. . The Great Recession hit in December of 2007 and ended two years later. A couple of decades ago, in 2001, just over 3.5 million Americans quit their jobs.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Do you tax a business traveler from Texas who orders TurboTax on his WiFi at Starbucks in Cherry Creek or a tourist from Oklahoma who does so from his SmartPhone while sitting on the chairlift at Vail? On the low end, think of a download of small mini-apps: a $.95 95 ringtone, a $1 MP3 song, a $2 e-book, a $5 upgrade to your GPS.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. In 2007, Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox for a reported sum of $925 million. Yankee Candle Company.

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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! - The 2018 Global Coworking Survey shed some light on the numbers behind who uses coworking spaces. According to GCUC, the global number of coworking spaces is expected to grow from 11,100 in 2016 to 24,306 in 2020.

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Will Grim Job Prospects Scar Today’s Grads? USATODAY.com Wonders

Campus Entrepreneurship

.”A lot of us are silly optimistic, sometimes,” says Amanda Frattarola, 22, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2011 and found a job as a health and wellness coordinator in Arlington, Texas. Her job search lasted eight months. via Grim job prospects could scar today’s college graduates – USATODAY.com.