Fri.Sep 06, 2019

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Learning From Silicon Valley About Blockchain Adoption

ReadWriteStart

One of Silicon Valley’s most compelling attributes is its lack of interest in the traditional bottom line. While most companies focus on revenue and profitability, Silicon Valley leaders tend to view valuation as a success barometer. Because of this mindset, Valley-based companies don’t mind taking significant risks as long as they help achieve big-picture visions.

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Top September Tech Events to Attend in Austin

SiliconHills

This month marks the start of Fall and that so far is just a date on the calendar as 90 plus degree days continue to be the norm. That’s about 10 degrees higher than normal, according to local metrologists. But alas as Fall approaches, Austin’s startup activities also heat up. This month features Silicon Hills […]. The post Top September Tech Events to Attend in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: Zirtue

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series continues this week with the CEO and Co-Founder of Zirtue : Dennis Cail. If you’ve ever been in a situation where you either lent money to a friend or perhaps borrowed some cash from them (and forgot to pay them back), Zirtue has a solution for you. It’s time to lend and borrow money on Your Terms.

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Seal Training

Mike Michalowicz

The foundation of our physical and mental health is exercise. I run not because I love it, but to stay in shape and bring my A game in the rest of my life – including my business. One day I learned a little lesson that can be applied to running our businesses. I was running through Coronado and saw a group of women gathered near the waterfront – and it looked as if they were looking at me.

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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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5 Practices To Keep Your Legacy Business Relevant For Modern Consumers

YoungUpstarts

by Kelly Bosetti , CEO and founder of CEA Marketing . Small businesses offer the sort of personalized care and customer service that corporate giants can never match. While they have stayed alive for centuries by catering to the needs of their clientele, those businesses are struggling to remain relevant to modern buyers. When you’re running a legacy business — or any company, for that matter — it’s incredibly important to keep pace with consumer trends.

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6 Compelling Reasons Why You Should File Your Patent in the U.S

Kodorra

I always come across people who prefer to start filing their patents in their home country. Most usually ended-up there and not proceeding to file in other countries. I guess it’s usually due to the cost involved. I, on the other hand, prefer to file it differently. I like to start filing in the United States and then proceed with the rest of the world.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Secondly, the risk is very high, since as many as 90 percent of startups fail within a few years.

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Thoughts on WeWork

This is going to be BIG.

I got asked by a reporter yesterday what I thought about WeWork’s IPO situation and I’ll summarize what I said here: First off, let’s pull back for a moment and acknowledge that WeWork has built a huge company that generates a ton of value for its members. Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream.

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The Rise of Vlogging in Brand Awareness

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to increasing brand awareness, social media platforms are king. Not only do they allow businesses to access a global audience, but they also provide the perfect way to deliver relevant, interesting content to the consumer. Initially, blogs were seen as the best way to engage with an audience, however, these days there is a new contender for the content crown: a video marketing technique called vlogging.

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11 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider To Be successful

Hearpreneur

In our societies and business, there’re entrepreneus who have demonstrated exceptionalities personalities and demeanour to pull it through business. Some of them alive and who continue to do great things while others we only read about them. Here’re the entrepreneurs business owners and other entrepreneurs consider to be successful. #1- Kelly Cutrone.