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Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart People

Austin Startup

Published on Industrial IoT 5G The Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, Texas brought together a broad spectrum of professionals, each with their own experiences and perspectives. The result was a fascinating menagerie of conversations that spanned lessons from the past and provided speculation on the future of Smart Cities. On the first evening of the Summit, a smaller dialogue took place offsite at RCR atx Studios between a unique group of people with one thing in common: a deep knowledge

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10 Ways For Business Leaders to Improve Their Skills

Startup Professionals Musings

Being a successful business leader requires continuous improvement in your leadership skills, as well as your products and processes. If you don’t focus on it, you can expect to be one of the 25 percent of CEO turnovers that occur every year from firing or forced retirement, as reported by a recent Harvard study. Business leadership requirements change just like market requirements.

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7 Ways To Spot If An Interviewee Is Right For Your Team

YoungUpstarts

by Phil White, Managing Director at Novell Coffee. Whether you’re sitting in the hot seat or interviewing your next prospective staff member, interviews can be tough. Unfortunately, there isn’t one clear-cut method for finding the perfect new addition to your team and everyone has their own methods when it comes to perfecting the process. Each business has its own definition of “ Googleyness ”, but essentially, an interviewer is looking for candidates that for candidates who fit in with their te

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A 6-Step Guide To Increase Retail Sales

YFS Magazine

If you are a small business owner in the retail industry, a working knowledge of efficient retail selling is a must. Here are 6 quick tips to get started. This article A 6-Step Guide To Increase Retail Sales appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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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 Biggest Skill You Need to Run a Business (It’s Not What You Think)

Up and Running

I hold an MBA from London Business School and there’s no doubt it’s a valuable degree to have under one’s belt. I guess to some extent I have to say that; how else would I justify the exorbitant tuition fees? Still, I learned a lot during that year. Much of it applicable in the real world, which isn’t always the case when it comes to tertiary education.

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How much should a growing SaaS business burn?

David Cohen

As an investor, I’m often asked what sort of burn rate is appropriate for a growing company. This question seems to come up right after a Series A raise when the startup feels flush with cash, has some level of product/market fit, and is wondering how much and how fast to try to grow. For SaaS companies in this situation, my rule of thumb for burn guidance is to have a one year ratio of net burn to net new MRR.

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Silverton Partners Plans to Raise $100 Million Venture Capital Fund

SiliconHills

Silverton Partners, a venture capital firm founded in 2005, is raising a $100 million Silverton Partners V fund, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin-based venture capital firm lists Adam Chibib, Michael Dodd, Morgan Flagler and Kip McClanahan as its general partners. Bill Wood, Silverton Partners’ founder, was not listed […] The post Silverton Partners Plans to Raise $100 Million Venture Capital Fund appeared first on SiliconHills.

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It's March 1st, Five Ways to Profit from Today's Frothy Markets

Growthink Blog

Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 21,068, up 15% since Election Day, with since that time more than $3 trillion in new investment wealth having been created. This rally has been both deep and consistent, with almost all market sectors participating, and with market volatility levels at their lowest level in 34 years. What is driving the rally is the hope that the aspects of the new administration's policies that are clearly pro-business, namely tax, regulatory, healthcare reform a

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FileStack Releases Redesign File Picker Product and Finds Success in San Antonio

SiliconHills

In 2015, Filestack moved to San Antonio from San Francisco. The startup, founded in 2012 by four MIT students and a graduate of the Y Combinator program, raised $1.8 million in seed stage capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital and SV Angel. It also received additional funding from Xenon Ventures. The company grew quickly and […] The post FileStack Releases Redesign File Picker Product and Finds Success in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin City Council to consider shared, electric, autonomous vehicle resolution

Austin Startup

This Thursday, the Austin City Council will consider a resolution “directing the City Manager to develop a plan and prepare the City to… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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FileStack Releases Redesigned File Picker Product and Finds Success in San Antonio

SiliconHills

In 2015, Filestack moved to San Antonio from San Francisco. The startup, founded in 2012 by four MIT students and a graduate of the Y Combinator program, raised $1.8 million in seed stage capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital and SV Angel. It also received additional funding from Xenon Ventures. The company grew quickly and […] The post FileStack Releases Redesigned File Picker Product and Finds Success in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Internet of Things Finds a Home in Smart Cities

Austin Startup

Published on Industrial IoT 5G Imagining the ‘city of the future’ is becoming easier to do thanks to recent examples of smart cities innovation. Common urban challenges like traffic, energy and waste reduction are all targets for technology-based solutions. The internet of things (IoT) is at the center of this evolution and at a recent Tech Titans event in Dallas, corporate leaders from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, Nokia and more gathered to ta

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The Relationship Between Branding and Emotion

Duct Tape Marketing

The Relationship Between Branding and Emotion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Javier Sanchez Lamelas. I think most small businesses have trouble relating to some of the best practices of very large organizations. Things like branding and storytelling seem like vague concepts rather than concrete tactics.

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US Innovation Depends on 5G Buildout

Austin Startup

Federal Leaders Outline “Must Dos” for Smart City Success Innovation is taking place at the local level. Across the U.S., cities are striving to become “Smart Cities,” which in its simplest form means applying information and communications technologies to urban challenges. While it is easy to get excited about the shiny objects that are permeating the Smart City conversation — such as driverless cars — it is also important to understand underlying and enabling technologies like 5G and the Inter

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The most important job I have as CEO

Jeff Hilimire

A CEO’s job is incredibly complex. I think this is because there is no real playbook for the role. Depending on the size of the organization, the role can be incredibly strategic or incredibly tactical, and it can shift on a daily (or hourly) basis. I’ve had the incredible opportunity to hear Steve Robinson (formerly the CMO of Chick-fil-A) speak on two occasions within the last week.

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Stamina

OnlyOnce

Stamina. A couple years ago I had breakfast with Nick Mehta, my friend who runs the incredibly exciting Gainsight. I think at the time I had been running Return Path for 15 years, and he was probably 5 years into his journey. He said he wanted to run his company forever, and he asked me how I had developed the stamina to keep running Return Path as long as I had.

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[Interview] Amanda Mills, Founder Of Amanda Mills Los Angeles

YoungUpstarts

Lifestyle curator is one of those terms that we hear a lot these days, but what does it really mean? For Amanda Mills, the mind and face behind the Amanda Mills Los Angeles (AMLA) lifestyle brand, it is a term she takes great pride in. On the outside, Amanda appears to be a bright-eyed California woman with a penchant for Yoga. However, this former Texan is much more nuanced and complex.

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17+ Remote Work Blogs and Resources to Follow in 2017

Transformify

Whether you’re a remote worker or just embarking on this journey it’s always good to have useful resources at hand. Being a team working remotely ourselves we’ve decided to put together a list of great blogs where you can find information on different aspects of working out of the office. 1. CareerMetis. This blog offers the ideas, tips, strategies, and resources you need to help you land that dream job.

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A Basic Guide To Beginning A Haulage Business

YoungUpstarts

The haulage industry has changed a lot over the last 30 years from primarily transporting raw materials such as metals and coal. Today, there is an increased demand for consumer goods which has forced the haulage industry to turn to the transportation of these goods. While haulage is still a good market, there are more competitors than ever and any new businesses need to establish a niche and keep all the costs low to be successful.

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How Data-Driven Marketers Are Using Psychographics

ConversionXL

Are you sold on the idea that it’s beneficial to understand your customer? Hope so. If not, it’s guess work. When you know who your customer is, where they are, what they love and what they hate, you can market to them much more effectively. There are a variety of ways of learning about your customer – some quantitative and some qualitative, some passive and some active.

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From The Recession To Riches: The Journey To Start A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Ken Staut, CEO of GrowthFountain. My entrepreneurial story, as I suspect is true of most, is one of tenacity. Let’s just say I didn’t end up with a pretty girl because of my looks. It was because of my tenacious personality and my inability to give up or give in. I draw a parallel with this phrase to my success as an entrepreneur. For some strange reason, I’ve always been motivated by a challenge.

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