Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. — In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technology makes a lot of things in business more efficient and engaging, especially HR, where you can lost in stacks of papers for days if you don’t stay on top of organization. There are many ways to use technology in HR, recruiting process to organization. by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. are engaged?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 16, 2018

With an aging baby boomer generation and statistics that place 55% of the RN workforce at retirement age, the nursing industry is ripe for a new incentive to fill the growing global nurse shortage. I started my tech business because I was interested in the world of start-ups. Tell us about your products and services.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2017

Gil Mulders, the head of learning at InterContinental Hotels Group, was speaking last month at the 2017 HR Tech World Conference in London , where he touched on the difficulty of finding the right balance between teaching methods. The world changes on a daily basis, with technology, and as a result, history, evolving constantly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

When planning your next product, the less you leave to chance, the better. And while you can never guarantee a successful product launch, you can vastly improve your odds if you prepare properly. You need to know what a successful product looks like if you want to chart a course to get there. iPhone (2007).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 11, 2023

Since its inception in 2017, when it was known as Vector.ai , Raft has undergone significant development. Raft’s dedication to staying on the cutting edge of technology and providing its customers with innovative solutions is reflected in this shift. Let’s take a look at some of Raft’s most essential features.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

With men and women increasingly investing in beauty services to get their groove on in today’s globalized world of style and luxury, a beauty on demand app would terminate the one thing people cannot afford despite needing the next-gen trendy haircut – TIME. The stylist review serves as an internal archive that signals the quality of demand.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. 3- Create a unique product. My wife Erin and I started our business as we needed a product that did not exist. Hence the Elixir2Go bottle was born back in 2017. Photo credit: Kevin Miller.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. We were infatuated with tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. We held our first close on August 1, 2017.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. Photo Credit: David Moise. I led projects.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of our Bplans writers described going into business in cannabis as a “ once-in-a-generation opportunity ,” with the product rapidly becoming legal for recreational as well as medical use in many states. In legal states, the markets have become so saturated that cannabis companies can end up with thousands of pounds of unsold product.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

A global accelerator program is taking applications from any startup offering innovative solutions to multiple product and service challenges. Each team will receive: The chance to trial their product in a ready-made international market. The chance to secure follow-on funding of up to £100,000/$135,000 [ * ] per startup.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The evolution of technology brought smokers a different experience called ‘vaping’. billion in sales in 2014 to $3 billion in 2017. A 2017 report forecasts a global growth of the e-cigarette and vaporizer market by 20.8% A 2017 report forecasts a global growth of the e-cigarette and vaporizer market by 20.8%

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2017

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Technology is shrinking the world every day, creating a marketplace where businesses find themselves competing with companies around the world for workers and consumers. Choose an area of business that needs a productivity boost. Think about the roles within your business that offer opportunities to increase productivity.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Wave 1: Store of value (product market fit). But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. Wave 2: Disruption of financial markets (early product market fit). As of mid October, more than $0.5b

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

He began his career as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and moved to National Bank Financial, where he worked for 11 years, first within the mergers and acquisitions group, and then as a director of global equity derivatives. In 2017, he embarked on a new venture, founding.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A finalist in Transportation and Delivery , which will pitch at 9:30 am Saturday, March 9, CargoX is reshaping the future of global trade with the world’s first blockchain-based Bill of Lading solution. In December, CargoX secured partnerships with both Global Cargo Alliance and ConsolFreight. What are your goals for CargoX in 2019?

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For start-ups looking to achieve leadership positions in emerging and highly competitive global markets, it makes sense to prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. John’s top-line OKR in Speed and Scale is to contain global warming to no more than an increase of 1.5 Then, there’s climate change.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 18, 2018

France is one of the world’s leading global powers, but what is it like to conduct business there? The hourly labor productivity in France, for example, ranks sixth (produces €45.6 In 2017 the CIR was €6 billion. You can go to VAT Global to review them. France Has A Very Large Market. High-Quality Workforce.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

an ad for a product you left in your cart on another site). Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan agrees : If an ad uses deeply personal information to appeal to emotional vulnerabilities or exploits psychological tendencies to generate a purchase, then that is a form of privacy violation—regardless of the technical details.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so Did I miss something?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. During this period he spent the majority of his time in the design and research field wondering what the future of AI technology was.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- 14- Polaroid. Photo Credit: Justin Carpenter. 15- Richard Branson.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

I talk to at least a dozen new entrepreneurs each week and probably review two dozen email pitches. Is it an Texas-based tech startup company or is it doing something in the email space? For me, that’s any tech startup company in Texas or any email related company in the world. Do you have a minimum viable product?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

His book Digital Human (2017) championed the concept of prioritizing humans in the digital transformation. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So the contributor, and we see that in our global talent trends, you might know that we do annual of course, surveys on what is trending and what people expect.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled workforces that can support tech startups. . In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 20, 2019

In 2017, Upwork and Freelancers Union released a comprehensive study of the freelance workforce in the U.S. If they’re simply interested in hiring a graphic designer to assist with a rebrand, this is a short-term project where hiring a freelancer with an impressive portfolio and good reviews would make most sense. They found that 57.3M

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

It seems all technology is getting smaller and more efficient. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Although this gap is decreasing due to the rise of mobile website optimization , conversion rates for these websites are still poor when compared to their desktop counterparts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In fact, a 2017 peer-reviewed study in the Lancet revealed that pollution continues to be a major global health concern. In response to this global trend, businesses are adopting environmentally-friendly strategies when they design products, product packaging, and when marketing their business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled work forces that can support tech startups. In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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