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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Right now, across parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, people are literally using a kitchen soup ladle and cheesecloth to salvage blood,” says Carolyn Yarina of Sisu Global Health , creator of Hemafuse. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

for startups that isn’t San Francisco or New York), Cove.tool has buildings in Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as across America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

Austin Startup

The Jordanian startup MENAVR is relying on Austin as source of technical expertise to develop its own VR platform, but more importantly, to connect with American VR publishers and license content to its home region, i.e. Middle East and North Africa. A brilliantly simple and powerful reason to have one finger in the Austin pie.

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How to Start an Ebay Business

Up and Running

Once you’re on this page, you will see a vertical navigation on the left side of your account. Africa Direct’s eBay Store is a great example of a store that operates as a website in micro. To create your first listing, log in to your eBay account. Click the ‘My eBay’ link in the top right hand corner. Click the “Sell an Item” link.

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Transcript of Why Continuous Learning Matters for Today’s Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Matt Cooper: We have focused in on creative as our real sort of core vertical and core area of expertise over the last 12, 18 months, in particular. So it has become increasingly global over the years. John Jantsch: Yeah, I guess that was my next question. Is there a typical student profile?

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

At the time, I had a blog that became popular about traveling around the world and living in this orphanage out in Africa. And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. So I mean I basically ended up as an early employee at Twitter after becoming an early user of the platform back in 2006.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).