Sun.Aug 19, 2018

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Take 5 minutes to help other Austin entrepreneurs and vote in the SXSW Panel Picker!

Austin Startup

It’s that time of year, when we all need to promote the panels we have submitted to the SXSW Panel Picker. It feels far away, but now is the time when SXSW really gets planned so if you don’t have an idea what you’re doing then you’re already behind the ball! Your votes really count?—?they account for 30% of the decision on whether or not a panel is accepted and can really help one stick out from others with the same topic.

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How To Find Money Based On Your New Venture Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

Time is too precious to waste trying to close a deal with the wrong investors at the wrong time. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table. The key is understanding how potential investors see you, and especially how they view the maturity stage of your startup.

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Exploiting Business Opportunities As An Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Venturing into a particular business is in the hope of getting profit. Knowing the type of business that will thrive in a specific area is a challenge for most potential entrepreneurs. So decisions should be made most effectively. Failure to make clear choices leads to collapsing of enterprises after being established. A collapsed firm which had not survived for long may lead to a considerable loss to the owner.

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Negotiating Exclusivity with Customers

Austin Startup

Structured correctly, contractual exclusivity with a customer can be the difference that makes a deal happen or significantly increases the value. Agree to the wrong terms, and it could be the end of your company. Here are some tips to consider. Is it worth it? Agreeing to exclusivity is a big decision so you shouldn’t make it lightly. Is this something you have to do in order to close a deal?

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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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How To Succeed In A Saturated Industry

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Penetrating a crowded market may seem quite intimidating at first. How do you launch a new search engine when Google is omnipresent? Or, how do you succeed as an eCommerce store when customers are already happy with Amazon? There are however a few advantages of entering a crowded market. For one, you already know where to find customers.

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4 Things Pro Photographers Can’t Live Without

YoungUpstarts

Photography is one of the greatest businesses in the world for a number of reasons. If you are looking to get into business for yourself, here are a few reasons you might want to view the world through the lens of professional photography: You get to travel to exotic locations. You don’t need years of expensive university to get started. You don’t need an office or a staff to get the job done well.

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