Sat.Oct 19, 2019

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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

On Monday, September 23, Austin Startup Week had an impressive kick-off at Capital Factory where over 400 women and allies gathered at the 3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit! Women leaders from across the U.S. delivered inspirational keynotes and led us through workshops, informative chats, and discussion breakout sessions— along with a startup showcase featuring seven women founders.

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6 Principles To Move Innovation Intentions To Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Historic changes and great successes don’t come from linear thinking.

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Should You Rebrand Your Business?

Austin Startup

Are you thinking about rebranding your startup, but you’re not sure if you should pull the trigger? Maybe your current visual identity looks fine, but you wonder if it would look better with some fresh design elements. Or maybe you surveyed your brand as a whole (your website, your Instagram page, your email footer, your direct mailers…), and you have a sinking sense that your current visual branding isn’t putting your company’s best foot forward.

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Creativity Is Where Innovation Starts

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Build Innovation From The Ground Up. Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . It’s mind numbing all the literature I read about innovation. I’m also a bit weary of chasing or developing the latest, greatest, and most sophisticated tool for ideation. Frameworks are fascinating, but have mercy, it’s overwhelming.

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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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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Afterword (by Bob Campbell)

Austin Startup

Back to Contents Written by Bob Campbell on Sept. 19, 2019: I first met Brett Hurt over 25 years ago. He was completing his undergraduate studies with a major in Management Information Systems at the University of Texas and was aspiring to a management consulting position. I was one of his interviewers. He tells me that it was his toughest interview, and that he had no idea where he stood in my eyes.

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Why do startup entrepreneurs need coaching?

Our Own Start-up

Leadership is an essential function of management that connects internal and external stakeholders.

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Weekend Favs October 19

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs October 19 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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Uses of Vinyl Prints

Our Own Start-up

Printing designs using vinyl is new in the industry.

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4 Signs It Is Time to Get Debt Management Help 

The Startup Magazine

Many people are servicing some loan – whether its credit card bills, student loans, mortgage, car loans, personal loans, and so on. Especially if you have a startup business, this makes managing other monthly expenses a challenge. But still, one has to strive to pay all bills to avoid late payment fees. For some, it is an uphill struggle, but with an end in sight.