Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

One of our most recent seed investments recently posed a question to me. They had designed a technical hiring process to try and eliminate gender bias but were losing all the women midway through their funnel when a take-home project was introduced. What was going wrong? I reviewed their current approaches alongside Homebrew’s Head of Talent Beth Scheer and we made a few recommendations, but there was nothing glaringly broken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside looking out, but now it must come from a dialogue and engagement with constituents.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Year after year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday amass billions in sales. In 2016, Cyber Monday sales increased 12.1% to $3.45 billion , breaking records in the process. Consumers begin looking into Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales weeks before they begin, and many shoppers reserve the bulk of their holiday purchases for this particular weekend. What’s great about this unique shopping extravaganza is that, no matter what type of business you run – startup or corporation, e-commerce or bri

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Have you considered investing in early stage startups? But you don’t know how to do it? There are questions you need to think about: How much do you invest? Where do you find startups? How do you balance your portfolio? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, don’t worry, you are not alone. There are many investors who want to become a business angel and invest in startups, but don’t know where to start.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

by James Clarke, owner and founder of Biocell Water. Whether it’s because they’re tackling air pollution and food waste , or carbon emissions and excessive water use , businesses big and small are supportive of sustainable business practice. However, what businesses don’t often talk about is what they are doing to tackle poop pollution. This needs to change, so here are a few things businesses should do to tackle the environmental issues caused by human waste. 1.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: November 5, 2017 If you have a cool new startup, then you only have a few days left to apply for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. Final entry deadline for this competition is end of the day on Friday, November 10. For March 2018, we are seeking forward-thinking startups in ten different categories: — Augmented & Virtual Reality  — Enterprise & Smart Data  — Entertainment & Content  — Health & Wearable  — Hyper-Connected Communities  — Payment & FinTech

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Many people wonder if it’s possible to design their own products. The truth is that product design used to be very expensive, time consuming, and fraught with many pitfalls. Even today, most entrepreneurs and small businesses face many challenges when trying to design their own products. But product design doesn’t need to be very expensive or time consuming.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Jan Ryan is a well-known advocate for women in tech in the Austin community. She founded Women@Austin in 2013 after identifying a need for women to promote themselves and their companies in Austin. In October, Ryan joined the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin in the new position of Director […]. The post Serial Entrepreneur Jan Ryan Advocates for Austin’s Creative Economy on Ideas to Invoices appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Photo by Jazmin Quaynor on Unsplash About half of my friends think I’m a marketing major. The other half has no idea why I’m actually majoring in Management Information Systems, taking design thinking classes, and working as a data scientist when I graduate. I’ve chosen a bit of a different path through college. I’ve taken courses and pursued topics inside and outside the classroom that reflect my actual interests.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

A startup can be as big or as small as it gets, but it can always do with a little help. From budgeting for advertising and marketing, to sourcing warehouse space, every single amount needs to be thought of carefully and spent judiciously. If help can come from some quarter, then a startup would be wise to take it. For a startup, the social influencer holds tremendous advantage.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Every startup that achieves momentum, say even ten people or more, begins to slot its talent into appropriate specializations. Internally the job boundaries may be a bit fuzzy as employees help each other, but when you send a team out into the world for sales, training, support, a trade show, or any form of gathering, you should make some careful decisions as to the mix of that team.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Spiritual success comes from doing the right things like leading a good life, loving your neighbor and doing good works. Most everyone’s heard of the “ Seven Deadly Sins ,” originally proclaimed nearly 1500 years ago by the early church, as those negative behaviors that could be fatal to spiritual success. In the same way, sales success comes from doing the right things that make customers want to do business with you, initially, and want to continue to do business with you ove

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