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Four Trends In Artificial Intelligence That Affect Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

by Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific at Hortonworks . We all have seen the headlines: “Google’s AlphaGo defeats world-class Chinese “Go” player”; “IBM’s Watson is tackling healthcare with artificial intelligence”; and so on. Artificial intelligence (AI), which is essentially a set of tools and programs that make software ’smarter’ in a way an outside observer thinks the output is generated by a human, is starting to break out on

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Attend Austin’s Tech Town Hall on Aug 24

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: August 20, 2017 More than any other mayor in the history of Austin, Steve Adler has courted and created strong ties with the city’s tech and startup community. These ties proved to be an important pillar of his successful election bid in the spring of 2014. These ties have been re-affirmed by his ongoing efforts to bring dozens of big city US mayors to Austin for SXSW.

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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

Thinking of ways to market your small business can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the cost and return on investment. Big companies spend millions of dollars every year marketing and building their businesses. Small businesses have a similar need to get the word out but have much more modest budgets. Here’s the secret that smart marketers hold close to their heart: marketing your small business doesn’t have to cost a fortune.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue.

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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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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

Thinking of ways to market your small business can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the cost and return on investment. Big companies spend millions of dollars every year marketing and building their businesses. Small businesses have a similar need to get the word out but have much more modest budgets. Here’s the secret that smart marketers hold close to their heart: marketing your small business doesn’t have to cost a fortune.

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Automation and Jobs: the tide turns

deal architect

I felt lonely last year as I was writing Silicon Collar. I had a minority view that modern machines will not lead to dramatic job losses, at least not any time soon. In recent weeks I have read many articles.

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Why You Should Insure Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Any business owner could face disaster at any point, regardless of how successful the business is. Having suitable business insurance may be essential to keep your company running even when the worst happens. This is even more of an important factor for new and small businesses who are less aware of the risks and don’t have the sufficient funds to pay out should anything go wrong.

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How you and your co-founder can develop a reliable relationship

The Next Web

Many entrepreneurs think that once they’ve found the right person to partner with, the rest of the relationship will be smooth sailing. While it’s true that finding someone with shared values and vision can put you on the path to success, you have to remember that strong business relationships don’t materialize out of thin air. Reliable co-founder relationships are built over long periods of time, and they are only at their best when both parties put in a continuous effort to strengthen and m

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5 Unexpected Ways IT Services Might Save Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

While startups can (and often do) operate with as few as a handful of employees using personal laptops in a shared workspace, the successful ones encounter rapid growth and the challenges that come with transitioning to a larger scale. There are, however, a number of steps a small business owner can take in order to optimize this process. Instead of addressing IT needs only when they arise, having a well-thought out plan can ensure that a startup is on track for sustained growth. .

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Why energy will be free in under 10 years

Start Up Blog

It’s easy to forget how many things we used to pay for that we now get to use and consume for free. Energy is very close to becoming one of them. The global economy is very quickly transforming to an all electric economy. Yes, for both your house and your car. Very soon we’ll only. Continue reading → The post Why energy will be free in under 10 years appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Top 15 Remote Work Sites for Digital Nomads

Transformify

I’ve been a digital nomad for 3 years and love it. Traveling, visiting new places, meeting new people, exchanging business ideas, and learning from each other can hardly be compared with anything else. Great co-working and co-living spaces , conferences, after parties… However, this is just the bright side experienced by those having businesses of their own, savings or a stable source of income.

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Don’t miss the 1st Women in Tech Summit at Capital Factory!

Austin Startup

One of the first Women@Austin meetings at Capital Factory. It’s no secret that women are changing the world of tech. Take a look at Kimberly Bryant , Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls Code, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, or Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX. Women continue to monumentally change the face of tech and leadership, not only in Austin, but all across the US.

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A terrific story about leadership and inspiration

Jeff Hilimire

Simon Sinek’s book, Start with Why , is bound to inspire any leader. It’s currently inspiring the pants off of me, and I had to share this story from Chapter 6: The Emergence of Trust. — Consider the story of two stonemasons. You walk up to the first stonemason and ask, “Do you like your job?” He looks up at you and replies, “I’ve been building this wall for as long as I can remember.

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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

This is an exciting time to be a software entrepreneur and investor. We are living in a time when there’s about to be massive disruption in tech infrastructure that will affect almost every industry. I haven’t felt this same level of excitement since the late 90s. But, let’s first take a step back in time. When most people think back on the late 90s, they think the dot com era was exciting because it put tech entrepreneurship on the map in a big way, and lots of entreprene

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5 Principles For Working With Someone You Don’t Like

Startup Professionals Musings

One thing is certain in any business – not everyone you have to deal with will be like you, or will like you (and vice versa). These people may include one of your business partners, an investor, a key vendor, or even one of your best customers. In my role as a business advisor, I see more and more how business people must bridge these differences to accomplish shared business goals.