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[Interview] Jonmichael Moy, Silicon Valley Veteran On Leading Digital Products To Market

YoungUpstarts

Jonmichael Moy (Jon Michael Moy) may be a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, but this accomplished, dedicated technology executive with more than seventeen years of experience in management and operations, product and business development and marketing has now brought his talents to Toronto. With a history of senior-level roles in digital businesses such as eBay/PayPal, Torstar Corporation, and now lending his skills to AskForTask (Canada’s largest fastest growing on-demand home services platfo

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques.

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Oracle Media Day: another view into the hurricane

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Oracle does a good job keeping us informed on the growing breadth of its SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and DaaS offerings throughout the year – see my post on Hurricane Oracle in January. So, I wondered if I would learn much.

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6 Initiatives To Get Ready For The Changes Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness.

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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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Five Big Conversations We Must Have About Jobs And The Next Generation

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, coauthor of “ Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age “. If you’ve been paying attention at all, you know massive changes are coming to the world of work. Specifically, a “technology tsunami” is roaring our way, poised to wipe out tens of millions of jobs. In fact, researchers at Oxford University predict that 47 percent of all jobs in the United States are likely to be taken over by technology in the next five to fifte

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How to choose a personal injury lawyer

The Startup Magazine

Personal injury lawyers represent you when you are filing a case against someone for injuries that they may have caused. Just remember that you must file a lawsuit within a specific time if you do not want the statute of limitations to run out. The time limit ranges from one year to six years, so you need to find a lawyer as soon as possible. Research lawyer candidates.

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6 Tactics to Take Your Business from Cash-Starved to Healthy Growth.

Small Business Force

Many small businesses operate in a mode where they are always dealing with day-to-day business crises or issues, that, often, leave them in a cash bind. That could be late supplier shipments to waiting for a big customer payment to having to make periodic tax payments to having to spend money on capital expenditures for critical plant and equipment.

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Get With The Times And Put Your Business Online

YoungUpstarts

The Internet might have been a novelty once, but now it’s practically a necessity. If you happen to run a business, the importance of being online is even greater — in fact, you practically can’t afford not to be. 70-80% of all shoppers look for information online before they visit a company or make a purchase. If you don’t have a website, that means all those people looking for the goods you sell or the things you do are coming up completely empty—which means those people aren’t becoming custom

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