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Reasons Why A Career In Criminal Justice Is Right For You

YoungUpstarts

When we are young it seems as if the world is a fairly straightforward place. We are asked what we would like to be when we grow up and our answers tend to be very confident and simplistic, missing out the fear of failure that creeps up on us as adolescents. Finding and keeping a good job is difficult, especially in this day and age, but reclaiming some of this childlike confidence is a surprisingly useful strategy to becoming the person you want to be.

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5 Steps To A Winning Personal Brand For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Although most people believe that being a successful entrepreneur is all about having the right idea, I’m convinced from my years of experience as a startup advisor and investor that’s it’s more about you as a person. If you can brand yourself as someone to remember, and someone who can deliver, I assure you that you will have no trouble finding investors, as well as customers.

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Tips For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

You didn’t bring your startup to life just to see it struggle and flounder at the bottom of its market. You took the plunge and started your own business because you wanted to see it scale the heights of its industry and reach the peak of its potential. If you’re to fulfill these lofty aspirations of yours, you’re going to have to do something a bit different.

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Austin-based WikiBuy is Booming Since its Acquisition by Capital One

SiliconHills

Austin has become an eCommerce hub. And that’s thanks, in part, to homegrown startups like WikiBuy, which was acquired by Capital One for an undisclosed sum in November of 2018. Other major Austin players in the eCommerce industry include RetailMeNot, Bazaarvoice, BigCommerce, Dosh, Convey, H-E-B Digital, Black Locus/Home Depot, and Favor. And Austin is also […].

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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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Employer Branding: Why Employers Need to ‘’Talk the Talk’’

Transformify

Most companies handle employment matters by either accepting a high turnover rate and working around it or by constantly improving their human resources policies and practices to attract and retain the most qualified candidates. Although a mixed approach is followed by many employers, they tend to build their employer brand around diverse corporate values.

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Tech Startups: Meet Your Future at SXSW

Austin Startup

Tech business in Austin is at an all-time high, and some unlikely companies are jumping in to support the growth. Austin, or Silicon Hills as it’s now colloquially deemed, was named “ Best City for Startups ” nationwide last year, ahead of Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The city earned the title for having the highest startup density and the fastest growth of small tech businesses.

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The Advantages of Technology for Nonprofits

Board Effect

In many ways, nonprofit organizations have disadvantages in comparison with for-profit corporations. They often lack operating funds, which makes it challenging to perform the work that their mission requires. By making the best use of technology, nonprofit organizations can actually operate more efficiently and cost-effectively. Technology for nonprofits benefits the nonprofit, the volunteers, the employees and the other stakeholders.

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4 Things you will need as you start your own business

Our Own Start-up

Starting a new business can often be a challenging process, and it can be difficult to know where to begin.

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Ten Ways To Create A WOW Culture – And Retain Your Best Talent – In 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture “ January is the perfect time to start thinking about your workplace culture. A positive one produces happy, engaged employees who give their best efforts, challenge themselves to grow, and consistently meet goals and delight customers. A toxic one creates miserable, unmotivated clock-watchers and job-board checkers.

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Banking on KC Podcast – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

Banking on KC Podcast – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch stops by the Banking on KC podcast and sits down with host Kelly Scanlon to discuss his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. When some folks hear the term “self-reliance,” they think that means going it alone.

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How To Reach Your Target Audience This Decade

YoungUpstarts

When you are selling a product or service, the consumers you should be targeting are those who need them the most. However, it can be difficult to determine who your target audience consists of – and how they will access your services. If you follow these steps below then the process of reaching your target audience will be made much simpler. Identify Your Target Audience.

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Austin is Becoming a Real Estate Technology Hub

SiliconHills

The Future of Real Estate Summit took place at the Hotel Van Zandt last Wednesday in the Rainey Street District. The 4-Star boutique hotel, which opened in 2015, is a symbol of the transformation that has taken place in downtown Austin in the last decade. The neighborhood once filled with single-family homes is now an […]. The post Austin is Becoming a Real Estate Technology Hub appeared first on SiliconHills.

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