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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

Fundbox leverages Big Data analytics, engineering and predictive modeling to give small businesses credit-on-demand that is accessed through its existing account software so that the point of workflow is never disrupted. Conversations can be had. As projects progress, users can move cards from list to list. Due dates can be assigned.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

Consisting of a veteran team of financial market and technology executives, blockchain leaders, valuations/product experts and experienced engineers. SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

Consisting of a veteran team of financial market and technology executives, blockchain leaders, valuations/product experts and experienced engineers. SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So of course when he graduated, I convinced him come work with me at SneakerLabs (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). These companies don’t have search engineers on staff. Small world!

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So of course when he graduated, I convinced him come work with me at SneakerLabs (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). These companies don’t have search engineers on staff. Small world!

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The myth of the brainstorming session: The best ideas don’t always come from meetings

The Next Web

Rsearchers at Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina noted that we generally value practical ideas because they are proven and familiar compared to novel concepts which are riskier to endorse. Groups hate scary ideas. Being too rigid in the creative process can kill the seeds of exceptional ideas.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. Here's my conversation with Raylene and Jen.