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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Digital User Experience

YoungUpstarts

To successfully compete in today’s digital world, companies must design user experiences that resonate with customers and keep engaged. However, in the race to design smart capabilities, many businesses commit one or more “deadly sins” that can compromise the growth and viability of their business. Don’t ignore the wrath of your users.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Designer – Good design can make or break a product so make sure you have someone who can think about and drive all design aspects of your business – from brand/logos, the appearance of the product and marketing materials. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today, companies face five challenges they never had to deal with: Challenge one – As companies are discovering every day, the web has changed everything. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Kogi has almost 70,000 Twitter followers ( @kogibbq ), a web-based schedule so fans can see where the trucks will be on any given day, and has garnered tons of media attention, only adding to their legend. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Kogi has almost 70,000 Twitter followers ( @kogibbq ), a web-based schedule so fans can see where the trucks will be on any given day, and has garnered tons of media attention, only adding to their legend. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.