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9 Keys To Measuring Your Social Media Campaign ROI

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. There are many ‘experts’ out there telling you how to do it, or even offering their services. But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment.

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Solidifying Startup Opportunities By Cutting Unnecessary Expenses

YoungUpstarts

You should cut expenses wherever possible if you want to solidify your startup opportunities; at least, that’s one of the fourteen tips Entrepreneur.com indicates you should take into account. Where you work is also a big part of saving ; so being able to design a cost-effective production space is a considerable option. Just consider the average cost of renting an office.

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Is Dubai The Next Big Global Startup Scene?

YFS Magazine

Thanks to gutsy startup founders, an investor-friendly business environment, world-class infrastructure, and events Dubai is on the map.

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Building AI on CXOTalk

BeyondVC

I had a great time participating on CXOTalk by Michael Krigsman with boldstart portfolio co founders, Sean Chou from Catalytic and Keith Brisson from Init.ai. When you get down to it, AI is going to be huge in the enterprise but you need to make sure to focus on solving real business problems. Watch to learn more on our discussion about “applied AI.” Here are some nuggets of wisdom: Companies are removing #data silos.

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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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Bro Culture is Hurting the Tech Industry

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News This model of throwing lots of money at “Bros” to startup tech companies without any focus on diversity and inclusiveness is not working, said Dan Lyons. Lyons spoke to a half-empty ballroom Friday afternoon at South by Southwest Interactive on the need for reform in […] The post Bro Culture is Hurting the Tech Industry appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Today’s #SXSW Events at Capital Factory | March 12th

Austin Startup

Happy Sunday Funday, Austin! There’s always something going on at the center of gravity for entrepreneurs. Check out what we have going on… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Gus Fring has just opened a Pollos Hermanos branch downtown Austin

Austin Startup

In order to announce the arrival of Gus Fring on Breaking Bad`s spinoff Better Call Saul, AMC decided to build a real Pollos Hermanos branch in Austin, TX, during SXSW 2017. On the town for the festival? Go check it out on 168 W 5th St, just a few blocks away from the Austin Convention Center. Gus Fring has just opened a Pollos Hermanos branch downtown Austin was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this

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Key insights for an entrepreneur from the book, Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jeff Hilimire

A friend and mentor of mine told me the book that had the biggest impact on his entrepreneurial journey was Beyond Entrepreneurship by James Collins and William Lazier. I devoured this book, and I suggest you do the same. Among other things, the book goes deep on a company’s value, purpose, vision, and strategy. Years ago I created a format for this at Dragon Army , called our Vision, Tenets, and Values (VTV).

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday of SXSW

Austin Startup

What a whirlwind of two days. It feels like I have been here a week and an hour all at the same time. I am writing this as I sit on the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Why 2017 Should be a Great Year to Raise Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall titled it “ WTF Happened to Winter ?” The conclusion of our report was that winter did come, but it was mild and short. This was driven by the influx of corporate VCs, foreign VC money, sovereign wealth funds and the new war chests of VCs who raised new funds in the past 18 months.

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Gina Rodriguez Hosts Seed Film Premiere

Austin Startup

Latinitas Reports from SXSW 2017 Gina Rodriguez hosted the film premiere for startup documentary, “ Seed,” at the Violet Crown theater on March 11 during SXSW. Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. There was no better way to end my first day at SXSW than by attending the premiere of the startup documentary, “Seed,” which was hosted by Emmy award-winning actress Gina Rodriguez.

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SXSW: The New Archive: How Tech Democratizes Historical Narratives

Austin Startup

Eugene Lang College Faculty member Lauren Walsh presents at SXSW with legendary war photojournalist Ron Haviv. [link] The New School returns to​ ​ SXSW this year, sharing innovative projects and perspectives that embody ​the university’s human­-centered approach to technology and design-inspired solutions to pressing social issues. Among them, Eugene Lang College Professor Lauren Walsh will talk about how photography has democratized historical narratives with Lost Rolls founder Ron Haviv, a leg

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