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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

You might say that Pat Mackaronis has never not been an entrepreneur. He got an early start as an entrepreneur at the age of 12 when he used to live near a golf course and would gather up lost golf balls from the players in the trees, ponds and lakes. Pat would then clean up the golf balls and set up a stand in the parking lot and sell the golf balls back to the original owners!

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Tips for Confidential Business Document Storage

The Startup Magazine

Business documents are very important and should be stored safely. If you need to retrieve information from such documents in the future, it can be done easily. A firm should, therefore, have good records management. Confidential business document storage should be done in every firm to also avoid exposing important information to external parties. In fact, most competitors may use confidential information to their advantage.

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How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Urban. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Ryan Urban. He is the founder and CEO of BounceX , a people-based marketing consultancy that helps organizations increase their online conversion rates.

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How to build a brand with purpose, according to 5 entrepreneurs who just won big money doing so

The Next Web

It’s no longer good enough to be in business for yourself alone — if it ever was in the first place. Corporate social responsibility is more important than it’s ever been, and consumers — especially younger consumers< — are much more cognizant of a corporation’s purpose than they’ve ever been. But don’t confuse the idea of corporate social responsibility with the idea of purpose.

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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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A Tale of Two Bubbles: Why Cryptocurrency Isn’t the Next Dot-Com

ReadWriteStart

Economic bubbles aren’t new. From the tulip bubble of the 1630s, to the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, to the big-tech mania we’re seeing today, overvaluations happen — but not all bubbles pose the same risks or offer the same rewards. Every few years, it seems we’re warned of another looming “bubble” about to burst. Most recently, pundits like Warren Buffett and George Soros have compared the rise of cryptocurrency to the dot-com bubble , wondering aloud if we’re on

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TNW asks: What’s your worst career-related f**k up?

The Next Web

As day two of TNW Conference begins to wind down, the editorial team took it upon itself to badger some (un)lucky event attendees. We wanted to talk about the types of things everyone experiences, but few want to relive. Today we asked the TNW faithful about their worst career-related f**k-ups… and we want details. If you’re feeling left out, or just want to join in on the fun, please leave your story in the comments below (or on Facebook).

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Xeris Pharmaceuticals Files to Raise $75 Million in an IPO

SiliconHills

Xeris Pharmaceuticals, founded in 2005 in Austin, filed on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange with an initial public offering valued at $75 million. The company, now based in Chicago, has strong ties to the Austin startup community. Xeris has raised $202 million to date in […]. The post Xeris Pharmaceuticals Files to Raise $75 Million in an IPO appeared first on SiliconHills.

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IT Entrepreneurs: How To Prepare For The Microsoft MTA 98-349 Exam

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurs and business professionals in the IT industry face unique challenges. One way to overcome them is to stand out and build credibility and brand authority through certification, particularly Microsoft certification.

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Jean Belanger with Cerebri Ai Talks About Artificial Intelligence, Data and Machine Learning on Ideas to Invoices

SiliconHills

Jean Belanger is co-founder and CEO of Cerebri Ai which helps Fortune 500 companies find their customers’ voice. A serial entrepreneur, Belanger has helped launch three software companies starting with Metrowerks, which went public on NASDAQ and later sold to Motorola. Next, Belanger started Reddwerks, a pioneer in the Internet of Things industry providing solutions […].

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6 Fundamental Tips For iPhone App Development

YFS Magazine

What are some iOS app development best practices that entrepreneurs (and their dev teams) should not ignore? Here's a look at six fundamental tips.

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25 Companies Named Winners of the 2018 Austin A-List of the Hottest Startups

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News For the eighth time, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce celebrated Austin’s hottest startups at its A-List Award ceremony. “Startups are trailblazers, risk takers, and pioneers,” said Hugh Forrest, programming director of South by Southwest, which co-sponsors the awards. At the event, the A-List awards went to […].

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Announcing E/N Alpha

Austin Startup

I’m very excited to announce the launch of E/N Alpha , a flat-fee subscription program ($500/mo) that our firm has launched for high-potential very early-stage startups. The details are available on the linked page, and should be fairly straightforward. In particular, I think it’s important to read the section describing what it’s not , because it reflects our firm’s thought-out response to what we see as a lot of failures / nonsense in the legal market where firms, for marketing purposes, prete

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The 4 Most Common Stressors in the Modern Workplace

Transformify

The key to a thriving, profitable business is engaged employees. But keeping your employees focused and healthy can be quite the challenge. Here are four of the most common stressors in the modern workforce: Outdated Technology. It's hard for employees to keep up with modern times when they're working on old technology. From a computer that crawls at a snail's pace through web pages to machinery that's inefficient—outdated technology can be a frustrating workplace experienc

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Rethinking the Elevator Pitch

Jeff Hilimire

My friend Adam writes a great blog about his entrepreneurial journey, and a post earlier this week was once again spot on. In the post, “This is where I encourage you to pitch your elevator pitch” , Adam talks about the fallacy that he sees in the concept of an elevator pitch. I hate the whole concept of the elevator pitch. I think it is the most overrated, over-discussed element of salesmanship.

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How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Ryan Urban. He is the founder and CEO at Bounce Exchange, a people-based marketing consultancy that helps organizations increase their online conversion rates, and we are gonna talk about what is, in at least May of 2018, the most talk