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8 Keys To Surviving and Thriving In This New Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value.

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Small Business – 4 Reasons You’re Too Small to Fail

Mike Michalowicz

?. Mural by Luke Buchanan, Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s a bit bumpy lately, right? . While we’re all on this roller coaster, I want to remind you just how important your small business is. And, that you have some advantages that big business doesn’t have access to. How many small businesses are there? First, let’s stand up and applaud the fact that small businesses represent 90% of all businesses around the world, and 99% of all businesses in the United States.

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Jasper.AI is Austin’s Newest Unicorn Raising $125 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation

SiliconHills

Jasper, an AI content platform based in Austin, announced last week that the company raised a $125 million Series A funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company harnesses artificial intelligence to help businesses and individuals create content. Its technology has been used in companies to help with blog posts and write and illustrate […].

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The Mindful Entrepreneur – Take Pause

Mike Michalowicz

?. There’s one practice I’ve implemented in my business and personal life that’s helped get me grounded and enhanced my communication and strategizing skills. Taking pause. . The entrepreneurial mind does not shut off and feels steps ahead of where we are in the present moment. The mindful entrepreneur has a growth mindset. . This week, I invite you to simply take pause.

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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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Mod Tech Labs Wins $1 Million in 43North Pitch Competition in Buffalo, New York

SiliconHills

Austin’s Mod Tech Labs won $1 million in the 43North pitch competition in Buffalo, New York last week. It was one of five companies that won $1 million each. All the winners must move to Buffalo for a year to participate in the 43North Y8 accelerator program in exchange for a 5 percent stake in […].

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“As a Senator, the first project I’d tackle would be immigration.” Me! in Conversation with Sar Haribhakti

Hunter Walker

I love doing quick Five Question Interviews to learn more about people in my community. Sar Haribhakti took it a bit further?—?I think he does closer to 15 questions ?—?but enjoyed being on the other side of the table for this Q&A (“ Coffee brew, political takes, and shop talk with Hunter Walk of Homebrew ”.

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Weekend Favs October 22

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs October 22 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 I 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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5 Reasons Why AR is the Future of Online Shopping

ReadWriteStart

As the world is extensively changing, the fashion industry, the fourth biggest sector of the global economy, has to adapt. Currently, it’s facing a lot of challenges. Thousands of brands and retailers exist in a highly competitive environment , needing to enhance business processes, boost sales, attract new customers online and offline and become eco-friendly.