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Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Board Effect

It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to recruit experienced and qualified businesspeople to serve on their boards. While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas. When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Louis and now Texas. I was able to travel from coast to coast, Boston to LA, Chicago to Florida, to meet investors and other interesting people who ended up joining our advisory board or are some other way involved with my company. I also love that it’s a community, and how entrepreneurs help each other.

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Apptronik Systems

The Startup Magazine

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. HQ Location : Austin, Texas HQ. What is your secret sauce? Our people! The Apptronik Team. How is Apptronik impacting the world/your clients? .

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Aug 30 is Final Day For PanelPicker Voting

Austin Startup

So too with community voting and commenting on the 5000+ speaking proposals on a multitude of topics in the 2019 SXSW PanelPicker. Community voting accounts for 30% of the total score that each speaking proposal receives. Other inputs for this total score are Advisory Board judging and SXSW staff analysis.

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Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

In a recent survey of 2,000 business owners by Texas Tech, 83% of the respondents claimed that they have a business that they love so much that they'd recommend it to others, yet 29% do so. I like to group client referrals into four main types; direct, implied, tangible and community. So what do these referrals look like?

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Meet People At SXSW … While Working Out And Losing Weight

David Teten

Community Run SXSW. Hyatt Regency, Texas Ballroom 5-7, 208 Barton Springs Rd. Jim Kaese, Editor-in-Chief and member of the EVEN Hotels Wellness Advisory Board , observed, “Go [to a conference] with the right mindset. Active Living ff Venture Capital Fitness Food Startup Texas Travel' Friday, March 7, 9 PM.