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What we learned from the first week of Uber & Lyft returning to Austin

Austin Startup

by Andy Tryba & Marisa Goldenberg Ridesharing in Austin got even more interesting on Memorial Day as Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a statewide regulation framework overruling local Austin rules. After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

Did you know that Netflix has only 90 seconds to find a show that suits a user before she gets frustrated and quits? According to a recent academic study, “a typical Netflix member loses interest after perhaps 60 to 90 seconds of choosing, having reviewed 10 to 20 titles (perhaps 3 in detail) on one or two screens.” How does Netflix manage to find the right show for the right user so quickly?

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Growth Strategy: 6 Ways To Scale Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

No matter how old you are or how much experience you’ve got – starting a small business is always an equally stressful and risky endeavor. Building something from the ground up is extremely demanding and tends to leave people drained and devoid of focus. The endless amount of repetitive daily tasks that have to be completed, along with the almost debilitating uncertainty that comes with each new day, is overwhelming and destroys every chance of growth.

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Rimini Street: 50 shades of grey

deal architect

Rimini Street has announced general availability of support for a wide range of database platforms, including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, the SAP Sybase family. They have previously supported Oracle and SAP HANA databases and a wide range of applications.

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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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Seven Reasons Why Workplace Diversity Will Help Your Business Win

YoungUpstarts

For businesses that intend to compete on a global playing field, a workplace – and workforce – that reflects a diversity of generations, cultures, values and thinking is a prerequisite to success. In fact, any business, whether it has a local, regional, national or global footprint, will be better off with a diverse base. Studies back this up. Every 1 percent increase in ethnocultural diversity by Canadian companies correlates to a 2.4 percent gain in revenue and a 0.5 percent increase in produc

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New Foundry Group Company Jobs Page

Feld Thoughts

We very rarely hire anyone at Foundry Group (although we are hiring an Executive Assistant ). However, many of the companies we invest in are often hiring. Over the years we’ve had a Foundry Group Jobs Page but we’ve never found software that was painless for us to use to keep it current. As a result, it would often get out of date and have to be updated manually.

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In Business, Write Your Own Rules Or Someone Else Will

YFS Magazine

In business, rules are important. Not arbitrary rules, but rules that matter. The trick is distinguishing between the two.

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5 Simple Ways To Make Your Side Gig Look Professional

YoungUpstarts

By Greg Waldorf, CEO of Invoice2go. Running a side gig on top of a degree, or a 9-to-5 job, may not be an easy path, but it’s a smart one for those determined to pursue a passion and someday be their own boss. From tutoring to graphic design, and pet care to bookkeeping, there’s no shortage of interesting ways to earn extra income, and to forge out a future where you have ultimate flexibility and control.

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Does your business need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work.

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Top 3 Foolish Myths About Creating Your Own Mobile App Revealed

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Fitzpatrick, President & Founder of Rialto Mobile. Are you interested in increasing loyalty, engagement and retention for your small business or organization? . If so, a mobile app could be just the tool you need to do it. I run into a lot of folks who have thought about creating an app for their business, but their perceptions about creating a mobile app have prevented them from moving forward. .

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How To Effortlessly Sell Online

YFS Magazine

When you successfully incorporate these 3 tips, you can drastically improve your online sales strategy and deliver more value.

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Get ready for ambient computing

Start Up Blog

The best sign of technology maturity is this – it becomes invisible. It’s there in our everyday lives, but fades into the background, it requires less attention and it forms part of our everyday ambient environment. Like electricity does. It’s just there, in the background waiting and acting on our behalf with the minimum of. Continue reading → The post Get ready for ambient computing appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Best Austin Activities to Start Fitting in Like a Local

Austin Startup

Are you new to Austin? Are you a local but you’d like to try some new activities? I’ve created something for you. This is a list I wish I had when I first moved to Austin. A starter kit of places to check out that will push you towards discovering your own path through Austin. Enjoy! My new favorite spot? Kinda Tropical. I’m moving into a new neighborhood soon.

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Geekdom Fund Raises $20 Million for Seed Stage Tech Investments

SiliconHills

The Geekdom Fund, based in San Antonio, announced this week it has closed on a $20 million fund, its largest fund to date. Previously, the Geekdom Fund raised nearly $3 million to invest in early stage tech startups. Since then, the fund has invested in Chowbotics, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup creating robots for commercial […] The post Geekdom Fund Raises $20 Million for Seed Stage Tech Investments appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING:? BesPAP

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this book cover project: The challenge of this project was to create a book cover for a realistic fiction novel about two high school seniors who come together while having a very tough school year. Let us start the slow clap for BesPAP.

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Keep Austin Weird vs Ride-Hailing Giants

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: June 8, 2017 In May 2016, Uber and Lyft abruptly departed Austin as a way to voice their opposition to a city-implemented regulation that both companies felt would hinder their business model. Both of these ride-hailing giants came back in early June , thanks to statewide legislation that nullified this local ordinance. Their return is reminiscent of the parable of the Prodigal Son(s), as both companies have been enthusiastically re-embraced despite their ugly departure la

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How to Increase PPC CTR with These Quick Tips

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Increase PPC CTR with These Quick Tips written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Being a digital marketer, you keep hearing about CTR and also know that it holds utmost importance in digital marketing especially when it comes to PPC. Click Through Rate often abbreviated as CTR is a metric that measures the number of clicks received on your ads per number of impressions.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid

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What You Need to Know About Your Privacy Online

Duct Tape Marketing

What You Need to Know About Your Privacy Online written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Dochuk. Podcast Transcript. Online Privacy – now there’s an oxymoron. (So love it when I get to use that word.). The more we humans live our lives online the less we seem to expect basic privacy. Right now, pretty much everything you do is being tracked with your explicit permission – whether you know it or not.

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How do we build inclusive, respectful, thriving tech companies that aren’t racist or sexist?

Austin Startup

I’ve been trying to imagine what it looks like to have a tech workplace that is respectful and inclusive to women, people of color and LGBTQ folks for a while. Certainly part of this is administrative — what benefits are included, maternity/paternity leave policies, LGBTQ-friendly insurance, codes of conduct that exclude rude (read: sexist, racist) behavior — but what does the day-to-day of a place like this look like, feel like?

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Brexit and Financial Services – What Do We Know So Far?

The Startup Magazine

The Brexit negotiations are still rife with uncertainty and speculation, and with the president of the European Commission confirming that the talks won’t begin between the EU and UK until after the general election – no one is any clearer on the true impact that the separation will cause. While it would be difficult to compile a price on the cost of Brexit so far, or what it will reach, there have been a large number of reports written on the impact of the shock decision with regards to new tar

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You Can Watch CNN, I’m Going to See Paramore

Hunter Walker

I watched the One Love Manchester benefit concert last night. Ariana Grande and her manager Scooter Braun did a great job pulling together an impressive roster so quickly. Per the NYTimes : “Everyone put their head down and said, ‘We’re doing it for these families,’” said Mr. Braun, who booked the entire bill — Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher of Oasis also performed — in less than 24 hours.