Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. Half of these startups will demo their talents on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 on Sunday, March 11. Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony (7 pm Sunday, March 11), at the Hilton Austin. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I recently did a podcast with Ton Dobbe. I have know Ton for a long time in various roles at Unit4.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As an active angel investor, I’m accustomed to hearing entrepreneurs pitch their expectation to quickly create a new dominant brand, based on their disruptive technology. In the past, such statements have been credibility red flags, since “everyone” knows that a dominant brand takes decades to establish and scale. Only recently, I realized that times are rapidly changing.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A growing business is an exciting thing to be involved in. You can watch as your dream blossoms into reality, bringing all the things you had hoped for — independence, income, and an outlet for your creativity. In fact, sometimes it might go a little too well. Not that you don’t want the business to grow, but it can reach a point where you run into some hard decisions.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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For Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There are seven key stages in a startup’s evolution from $0m to $50m in revenue. Understanding where you are in that evolution, and how to act at each stage is critical for success, as what is appropriate at one stage is not appropriate at another stage. In my talk at SaaStr 2018, I will lay.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

by Daniel Haurey, president of Exigent Technologies. Traditional standards of value are changing as technology progresses at a screaming pace. With these changes, how our businesses adapt to them has to follow suit. Where once products, services, people, credit, liquid assets, and hard cash were the economic benchmarks that measured the success of a business, less tangible things are becoming more and more a part of true value.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There is a consistent demand for specialist cars and parts suppliers and businesses in this niche continue to grow and perform well. Despite the effects of the economic downturn and austerity measures, classic car purchases and values are increasing, and companies providing a specialist service for parts have grown their businesses as consumer interest in all things automotive continues to flourish.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Doing less in order to be more productive might initially appear to be a contradiction or a paradoxical idea. But there is an important difference between being busy and being productive. Businesses are constantly trying to squeeze more activity into less time. Increased connectivity in and out of the workplace blurs the separation of work and life as it is.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In Amazon’s Super Bowl ad, there are major hints that Austin is definitely on Amazon’s radar. Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa, a hardware device that runs on artificial intelligence, is the ad’s star along with Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos. The ad opens up with a woman in her bathroom brushing her teeth, listening to Alexa. Alexa […].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You need more than luck to design and sell popular products. After all, most successful products help to solve a problem for people who use those products. Ultimately, great design is about understanding people and their pain points. Products get inside the heads of consumers in surprising ways, and product designers have taken advantage of this for decades.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is the month for love and we are focusing on hard work and hustle aka Project Work Ethic. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and startups to start their week off on the right foot. This motivational video from Gary Vaynerchuk “reminds us the most important word is hard work and hustle.” “Hard work matters … period. deploy it on what matters to you. parenting, work, your company your friends etc.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

When you need to hire new people, you want to hire the best people possible. But how do you find those people? Often, you can’t tell if someone is going to actually work out until you have seen them on the job, but there are some things you can do to give yourself a better chance of finding the right person. What Other People Say. It can be annoying and time-consuming to contact references, but what a former co-worker or boss says about someone can tell you a lot about a person.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

That’s right, Dragon Army recently turned 40! Wait, you’re not thinking I mean years, are you? No, we’re just over four years old. I’m talking about people! Actually, we’re 43 people today (37 full time and 6 “full time” contractors.). To put that in perspective, this time last year we were 13. 13! Those 43 people are made up of the following roles: Developers: 20.

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