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Austin’s Paper Census: Helping Government Break Up with Paper

Austin Startup

In 2017, Austin City Council passed the Smart Cities Strategic Roadmap. Getting the blessing of department heads and other leadership gives staff freedom to participate fully in the process. Where do you start when you decide to become a smart city ? For Austin, one of the first steps is going paperless.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did !

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

With over 20 years of experience in the language services industry, Elizabeth garnered national praise for her leadership and expertise in her field with awards such as Negocios Now’s Latinas in Business Award (2017). TSM: With a bit more detail, what does NAWBO do for its members from a benefits and amenities standpoint?

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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Most government agencies and many large corporations have procurement programs that allot a percentage of their contracts to women-owned small businesses.

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Soulful Leadership: Reimagining Leadership’s Purpose

YoungUpstarts

Gaurav Bhalla, CEO of Knowledge Kinetics and author of “ Awakening a Leader’s Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems “ New times require new narratives… and leadership is no exception. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg as proof: The 2017 Edelman Global Trust Barometer informs us that “trust in leaders” is in tatters.

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Nando Caporicci: How Blockchain Outperforms Financial Institutions

The Startup Magazine

For centuries, people have relied on banks or some equivalent of government-backed institutions that are designed to safeguard their assets. Price Leadership. Not to mention the fact that people who own cryptocurrency can watch it grow over time like it did 2017. Enter financial intermediaries and large corporations.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

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. How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests?