Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2020

One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. They know from forums such as Shark Tank on TV that asking for either too much or too little will derail credibility in the eyes of the investor, and leave the entrepreneur with no money and a struggling startup.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 4, 2020

RSVP now to attend the Tues evening, Jan 7 edition of the Austin Forum exploring top tech trends for 2020 The Forrest Four-Cast: January 2, 2020 Will this be the year that VR finally achieves its hype? Does Section 230 survive? Do Facebook’s ongoing PR problems ever impact its stock price? Can we agree on meaningful artificial intelligence safeguards to mitigate public concerns about the safety of these machine-enhanced systems?

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 4, 2020

———————————————————————————————————————————————– Below is a list of my top three posts in 2019.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 4, 2020

Temple Health and Bioscience District hosts Temple Independent School District Students for a Hands-On Lab Tour Contributed post by Temple Health and Bioscience District | Tami Annable (far right), Executive Director of Temple Health and Bioscience District’s (THBD) , a not-for-profit bioscience incubator located in Temple, Texas, shows Temple ISD students pipetting inside the common laboratory at THBD.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2020

Weekend Favs January 4 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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Our Own Start-up

JANUARY 4, 2020

Doing everything that’s needed to keep your electrical system running during the cold winter months will decrease the chances of experiencing electrical blowouts in your small business. Taking the right precautions can keep your electricity running through all kinds of harsh weather so that you won’t have to experience interruptions in your production.

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Our Own Start-up

JANUARY 4, 2020

Most people don’t like to think about the possibility of serious emergencies occurring in the workplace.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 4, 2020

There's been so much written about hustle porn and one of the most outspoken people on Twitter is @dhh on Twitter. He is one of the founders of Basecamp and with his cofounder, has even written a book about it not having to be crazy at work. As much as I like to agree with him, the reality of the world we live in is often nuanced. As much as I'd like to fully agree that you can build highly successful businesses with a maximum 40 hour workweek, my day to day shows otherwise.

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