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6 Ways To Build A Better Membership Site

The Startup Magazine

What motivates someone to create a membership website? While some sites focus on content-driven subscriptions to create income, others provide an online presence for clubs, associations, nonprofits, chambers and organizations that primarily exist offline. Regardless of the intent of your membership website, these tips can save time and bring in more dues revenue.

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Influence, Intelligence and SAP

deal architect

Last week, in the Enterprise Irregulars chat room I said in a thread "Analyst Relations at vendors generally want to influence v. seek intelligence. So they want analysts to say nice things about what they can offer today. As important.

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How to Maintain Your Competitive Edge as a Blitzscaling Company

Reid Hoffman

My old friend Peter Thiel once wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal, titled “Competition Is for Losers.” Entrepreneurs frequently make the mistake of picking highly competitive markets. I suspect that they fall into this trap because many entrepreneurs come from elite universities where they succeeded by outcompeting a bunch of other smart people on a level playing field.

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Leading Online Disruptors For Online Finance In 2019

YoungUpstarts

If you’re a millennial looking to take out a personal loan, a business loan, or even a mortgage to buy your first home, you may be wondering how to secure the money you need. If you don’t have the borrowing history necessary to have a great credit score, it may be hard for you to secure the financing you need from a bank. There are a number of companies that are growning from strength to strength by utilizing technology to make lending and borrowing much easier for our generation.

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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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Why I’ll Sometimes Fund a Startup And Tell Them to Stop Making Money

Hunter Walker

“Don’t worry about making money right now” is not the advice you’d expect a seed VC to give a CEO right after writing them a big check. Do I not desire the UpAndToTheRightCurve needed to raise a Series A and get me that sweet sweet write-up? Doesn’t Homebrew want steak more than sizzle in the companies we back? Hunter, what’s gotten into you???

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4 Investment Opportunities For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are starting more businesses than ever and paving new roads for those who are looking for new ways to strike out on their own. One likely concern for these individuals is how to grow their money so they have more capital to reinvest back into their companies. If you are a young entrepreneur looking for investment opportunities that are both viable and affordable, then there are several trends you may want to investigate. 1.

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When You Should (And Shouldn’t) Use Chatbots For Marketing

YFS Magazine

Chatbots are a promising new tool for marketers. However, the question is whether your business should utilize chatbot platform tools?

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ClearBlade Wins $100K in Ingram Micro’s Comet Competition

SiliconHills

Austin-based ClearBlade won the first place prize of $100,000 in the Comet Competition contest sponsored by Ingram Micro. Other Austin-based winners included re:3D, Sempulse and The Mentor Method. The Comet Competition, funded by IT distributor Ingram Micro, set out to uncover, fund and bring to market the next wave of business to business software innovators […].

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6 Simple Ways To Validate Your Mobile App Idea

YFS Magazine

It would be quite risky to develop a new app based solely on your own ideas about what the market and potential audience need.

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Austin Technology Council’s Amber Gunst is Focused on Growing and Scaling Austin Software Companies

SiliconHills

Helping 10 Austin software companies to become billion-dollar companies and another 100 to $100 million in revenue in the next decade is the big hairy audacious goal of the Austin Technology Council. And Amber Gunst, the CEO who took over the job in January after serving as interim CEO since last May, is determined to […]. The post Austin Technology Council’s Amber Gunst is Focused on Growing and Scaling Austin Software Companies appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Secret Innovation Budget

Start Up Blog

Research & Development and Marketing traditionally lived in different worlds. R&D for innovation purpose happened in secret, in the lab, while Marketing was mostly just advertising. The advertising itself? Well, that was generally about convincing people to buy what the company could already make. It was rarely about the future and what the brand might become.

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E-commerce market in India growing at a fast pace might touch USD 84 billion in 2021

Our Own Start-up

The fast-growing e-commerce market in the country will touch USD 84 billion in 2021 from USD 24 billion in 2017.

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SXSW EDU 2019: March 7th

Austin Startup

SXSW EDU: Events for the Edtech and Higher Ed Audience March 7th, 2019 SXSW EDU Conference attendees interested in tech and higher education will enjoy the following presentations today, Thursday, March 7th: 9:30–6 PM SXSW Art Program Presents Weaving by Cocolab 9:30?—?10:30 AM The Aerodynamics of Exceptional Schools 11 AM Free Speech on Campus: Left, Right, & Center Blockchain: Hype or Enabler for K-12 Data Privacy Making Virtual Reality for Tomorrow’s Classrooms Progress & Challenges f

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Do you like beer and doing good? If so, I’ve got just the thing for you ;)

Jeff Hilimire

I absolutely love Central Outreach & Advocacy Center (OAC). I’ve Chaired the board of this tremendous organization for several years now, and the work that they do to help people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta is nothing short of remarkable. Every year the OAC puts on an event called Cheers for Change. This year the event is once again at Sweetwater Brewery on April 28th.

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Could you have created a “dirty cap table?”

Berkonomics

Oh, I know. When you started the business, you took investments from friends and family in small amounts just to get you started. Of course, that worked at the time. But…. Enter the need for larger investments. When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?