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Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit Features Austin’s Kerry Rupp with True Wealth Ventures

SiliconHills

Kerry Rupp, a general partner of True Wealth Ventures in Austin, is one of the featured speakers at the 2020 Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit, which kicks off on Sunday. The post Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit Features Austin’s Kerry Rupp with True Wealth Ventures appeared first on SiliconHills.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

If there’s a new technology out there, we are presenting, demonstrating, and exhibiting it to Hispanic and other girls of color in our clubs, camps, workshops, and conferences. This year, Latinitas turns 15 years old; we have reached our “quinceanera” — we are a teenager, burgeoning on adulthood.

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Episode 5: Profit And Social Media Strategies With Cyndi Thomason And Brent Robinson

Mike Michalowicz

He is a design thinker and “recovering” architect, and spent time in Silicon Valley providing technology solutions to professional service firms and start-up companies during the Dot Com Boom… and Bust. 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency). 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency).

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. Here in the U.S. it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Maryland was the first U.S.

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What Is the Difference Between Leadership and Management for a Nonprofit?

Board Effect

The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee , said: “A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.”.

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Students To Make Biodegradable Plastic Bags A Reality

YoungUpstarts

But not if four University of Arkansas student have anything to say about that – the founders of cycleWood Solutions Inc. Cao found the technology, a lignin-based biodegradable plastic, on the Office for Technology Commercialization’s website. intends to make biodegradable plastic shopping bags into reality.

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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

All three of the others were strong business plans, with good product-market possibilities, strong technologies, and strong management. They’re from the University of Arkansas. By the time I asked that question, my fellow judges were probably rolling their eyes, because I’d asked that of every other team in that track.