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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

In western Oklahoma there are many companies depending on oil production for their livelihood. Failure due to ignorance regarding your business can strike either the management side or the operations side of a business. Catastrophes are the natural and man-made disasters that originate outside your business and hinder your goals.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding?

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The Flaming Lips and Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. It’s in just a few weeks, so register, and make plans now to arrive in Oklahoma City for the March 31st one day event. Oklahoma City has turned the corner on talent exporting, let me explain.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In his career, Stephen has started, operated, and successfully sold two companies and also spent nine years at Austin Ventures, where he was a General Partner. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. It will allow us to track conversations about our brands and campaigns, spot trends in core content areas and identify key influencers that are connected to our brands.” Operations.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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