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RISE 2010 Registration Open

Austin Startup

The fourth annual Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs (RISE) returns to Austin, Texas, March 1-5, 2010 with five full days of free sessions covering a wide range of topics of interest to aspiring, new and established entrepreneurs in all industries. RISE Funding Forum. RISE Fast Pitch Competition and the.

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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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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas. Last night, Cotter was one of our keynote speakers, along with Mark Cuban, at the University of Texas for Longhorn Startup Demo Day (the event was just fantastic, by the way, and Josh Baer, Ben Dyer, and Bob Metcalfe deserve a huge round of applause for it). and I bet he’ll be back.

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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 2007, Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox for a reported sum of $925 million. In 1978, John Mackey and Rene Lawson Hardy opened up a small natural foods store called Safer Way Natural Foods in Austin, Texas. Yankee Candle Company.

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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. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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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! - When you rent an office in a coworking space, you have access to a built-in community of contacts that can become your future friends, clients, and referral partners. “If you put up walls, there’s no point.

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