YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2017

by Helen Sanders, chief editor at HealthAmbition.com. Most of us associate “diet foods” with foods that will help us look better physically. While this is a common motive for people to begin watching what they eat, there are many other reasons why we should be mindful of what we consume. I know firsthand that eating the right foods is an excellent way to not only improve physical appearance but general health as well.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

If there’s anything that traveling outside the U.S. taught me, it was how to adapt. Unless you can afford to build a bubble around yourself that keeps things exactly like they are at home (which some people do, I guess) travel is a series of surprises and new information that you need to constantly react to. As it turns out, this is very similar to the experience of working at or founding a startup company.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 10, 2017

What you say, and what you don't, can make a huge impact on your team. Need the right thing to say? Start with phrases that empower your employees.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 10, 2017

San Antonio-based Harland Clarke announced Monday it has acquired RetailMeNot for $11.60 per share or $600 million. Harland Clarke, a payment solutions and marketing services company, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RetailMeNot, which trades on the NASDAQ market under the sybmol SALE. The combined company creates a large multi-channel media network with tens […] The post San Antonio-based Harland Clarke Acquires RetailMeNot for $630 million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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YFS Magazine

APRIL 10, 2017

Is your marketing working? Learn how to use use data intelligence and technology to ensure your marketing strategy delivers on your goals.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2017

It's hard to answer that question, because even if you look at fundraising data, you don't always know a) when the round was actually closed vs. just announced or filed and b) you don't know when fundraising actually started. Maybe it was wrapped up in a week or maybe it took six months. That being said, I was super curious what my own track record had to say about it.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 10, 2017

If you own your own business there is a good chance that finances may be tight; especially if you are just starting out. You are probably aware that SEO is an important part of any marketing strategy, but how can you afford to invest in it? As a general rule, you are going to get better results if you can invest a significant amount of money. Chances are that you will see more impressive returns if you invest in professional online marketing solutions.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 10, 2017

Michele Skelding is joining Austin-based real estate firm SkylesBayne as president and chief executive officer. Skelding, who resigned in December from her role as senior vice president of global technology and innovation at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, will lead SkylesBayne, a commercial real estate firm specializing in office, industrial and medical tenant representation. […] The post Michele Skelding Joins SkylesBayne as President and CEO appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 10, 2017

Improving Customer Service at United Airlines Requires a Paradigm Shift and Recognizing They Have a Problem. Creative Training Would Have Helped. 10 Things United Airlines Might Have Done (see below). Once again we have an incident of extremely poor customer service from a major airline. This time it’s United (as it is frequently) who dragged a paying customer off a flight by force.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2017

I try not to shill for Homebrew portfolio companies too relentless on this blog (for that you have my Twitter account ), but I just really love UpCounsel’s new “15 Minute Legal Consultation” product, so wanted to talk a but about it. Background : UpCounsel is a B2B marketplace which connects businesses with high quality independent lawyers for project-based work.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

Thanks so much to all of our first subscribers. Your support and commitment to doing what you can, where you are, with what you have are why we do it. Here’s how the early impact breaks down by cause type and organization. Animals & Environment Austin Pets Alive!  — Austin, TX Austin Parks Foundation — Austin, TX Pease Park Conservancy — Austin, TX Parks & Wildlife Foundation — Dallas, TX Youth & Education Makarios  — Austin, TX e4 Youth — Austin, TX PelotonU  — Austin, TX The Amala

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 10, 2017

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. This Russell Westbrook (one of my favorite players) video talked about his “fury” and “anger” going into this season. He just accomplished what has only been done one other time and history in averaging a triple double, achieved more triple doubles than anyone else in history and is probably on his was to a triple double.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

Seriously, this is not an exaggeration I think people throw around the word “bootstrapped” too casually. I hate to break it to you, but raising 500K from a friends and family round is not being a bootstrapped startup. When you’re truly bootstrapped, you don’t have the couple of hundred dollars to shell out to someone to do your companies taxes, or go to that pitch event, or hire someone to help you get PR.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 10, 2017

#Humblebrag here, but Coach has the best customer support of any online course platform out there, and quite possibly near the top of any SaaS business. Customer support is one of the four pillars of our company, and it’s a big reason why people switch to us for their online course builder needs. Don’t believe me? Here are just a few recent things customers have said: So, what do we do that “wows” people?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 10, 2017 If you enjoyed “ Disrupted ” (the laugh-until-you-cry tell-all from veteran tech analyst Dan Lyons), then put “ Startup: A Novel ” on your spring / summer reading list. Written by BuzzFeed Senior Culture Editor Doree Shafrir (pictured above), this book pulls apart the New York / Brooklyn entrepreneurial scene in the same bitter-sweet way that the HBO show “Silicon Valley” satirizes San Jose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2017

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are jealous of inventors, thinking that new inventions are the key to new ventures. In my experience advising startups, I have found that the invention is usually the easy part, and the hard part is turning the invention into a business. It takes a special kind of person to turn an idea into a business, with strengths often opposite those of an inventor.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

For Austinites, we don’t mind sharing the fact that a U.S. News and World Report declared Austin the #1 Best City To Live In or that over a hundred and fifty people move here every day because our city really is just that great. But we’re more than just tacos, sunshine, and music festivals. Maybe you’ve already heard that Austin is the #1 Startup City in the U.S. or that we had the 2nd largest startup growth of any city in the U.S. last year.

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