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Welcome To The Year Of The Customer

YoungUpstarts

Specific verticals, such as sales and marketing, will definitely stand to benefit from leveraging the data collected from the Internet of Things to make predictions, effectively set targets and tailor their go-to-market messaging to understand their target audience better.

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5 Key Tests When Assessing Your Business Idea

YoungUpstarts

A good idea, from a business perspective, is one that solves an important problem for a set of customers in a big enough and rapidly growing market, with enough value in the solution that you can continue to grow your company over time. If there is no market or customer need, then there is no value proposition or viable business model.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Sevin Rosen in Dallas launched the next year and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the two firms vied for their place in the Texas market.