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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. Google’s Sergy Brin has been quoted as saying that, “any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.”

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

After a few conversations, she offered up an alternative name for the company, “Find Your Influence.” The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. The brand name has stood out and acted as an earworm of sorts during the sales conversion process. We settled on “Ignite Influence.”

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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

The wrnchAI engine is a real-time AI platform to digitize human motion and behavior from standard video. We want to make the wrnchAI engine the de facto standard for visual human machine interaction. We have been working on the engine for two years with key partners and will be officially launching it at NVIDIA GTC in March.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks. Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines. Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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