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5 Strategies For Recognizing Early The Need To Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur realizes that change is now the norm, and they have to adapt their business quickly to survive and prosper. In fact, the best entrepreneurs seem to see breakthrough changes coming even before they really happen, and are able to turn them into huge new opportunities. In the trade, this rare capability is called the ability to see around corners.

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Package Delivery Service Fetch Lands $50 Million to Expand to New Markets

SiliconHills

Fetch, a last-mile package delivery service aimed at apartment dwellers, announced last week it has closed on $50 million in funding. Ocelot Capital led the Series C round of funding along with Greenpoint Partners, Alpaca VC, and Rose Park Advisors. Existing investors Iron Gate Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, Venn Ventures, Pando Ventures, and Seamless also […].

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Weekend Favs May 24

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs May 24 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Capstar Ventures Raises $41.3 Million Inaugural Fund to Invest in Innovative Consumer Companies

SiliconHills

Capstar Ventures L.P., an early-stage venture capital firm, announced last week that it has closed on its $41.3 million inaugural fund. The Austin-based VC firm founded by Kathryn Cavanaugh in 2019, invests nationwide in innovative consumer companies. Capstar raised the fund from individuals, family offices, and institutions including Capital Creek Partners, Tiger Partners L.P., and […].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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4 Best side hustles to make extra cash

Our Own Start-up

Side hustles are a great way to build your skills, meet new people and present you with career opportunities that you might never have considered before. The post 4 Best side hustles to make extra cash first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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REE Automotive Picks Austin for its U.S. Headquarters

SiliconHills

REE Automotive has chosen Austin for its U.S. headquarters. The Israel-based automotive company is establishing its first center for the assembly and testing of its electric vehicle platforms in Austin. The center is expected to create 150 jobs. The company is exploring collaborations with Koch Industries companies to establish the center. Koch Strategic Platforms, a […].

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Austin’s CS Disco Becomes a Public Company Valued at $2.4 Billion

SiliconHills

CS Disco became a public company last week debuting on the New York stock exchange under the stock symbol LAW. The Austin-based legal tech company offered its stock at $32 a share and raised $224 million from its Initial Public Offering. And when the stock began trading on Wednesday it “opened at $42.26 and closed […].