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"Journalism is built on a foundation of trust and truth. While I have friends who are also sources, those friends know I wear two hats" — Five Questions w Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva

Hunter Walker

Kia Kokalitcheva is a San Francisco-based technology and business reporter at Axios. She covers tech, Silicon Valley, and venture capital. We’ve known each other for a while – she was previously at Fortune – and besides appreciating her work, Kia has always struck me as a no BS person who will tell you where she stands. Whether I agree with her or not on an issue, I like the forthrightness.

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Technology Risk Management Best Practices for Boards

Board Effect

Every industry uses technology in one form or another and most companies increase the number or sophistication of the digital processes they use a little every year. In some industries, nearly every aspect of the business uses technology, from human resources to operations and everywhere in between. Technology solves many of a company’s problems, but it also invites many risks into the company.

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7 Business Experimentation Myths That Are Outdated

Startup Professionals Musings

In my work with you as an entrepreneur or small business owner, I find that most understand the need try out new business models and product innovations, but trust their intuition rather than running a disciplined business experiment first. The result is that you often take a big financial hit, and lose key customers, before you realize that the change didn’t work.

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How Payroll Funding Works: An Alternative Way To Help Finance Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

One of the challenges that many small businesses and startups encounter is seeking sufficient funds to allow the venture to grow and thrive. Unlike larger companies with more stable financial resources, it is more likely for small businesses to struggle with inconsistent cash flow, unplanned expenses, repayment of debt, and payroll expenses. While it is typical for businesses, whether small or large, to encounter monetary challenges once in a while, startups and small businesses may find it more

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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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4 Creative Ways to Raise Brand Awareness

The Startup Magazine

Whether you have a loyal base of customers already, or you’re starting with a clean slate on launch day, generating leads and finding your target market is no small feat.You have to identify your customers ASAP in order to keep your business up and running. But finding your customers is only half the battle, keeping them around with good brand awareness is what will keep the profits coming in!

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Austin Officials Cancel SXSW

SiliconHills

The show isn’t going on after all. On Friday, City of Austin officials held a press conference and announced the cancellation of SXSW and SXSW.EDU, set to take place next week. “We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time […]. The post Austin Officials Cancel SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Brainstorm and Evaluate Business Ideas

crowdSPRING Blog

So, you want to start a business. The idea of being your own boss and putting your time and effort into a business of your own probably seems pretty appealing. But, you may have already realized that coming up with a viable, profitable business idea can be tough. Maybe you just don’t think you have any ideas. Or, maybe you have plenty of ideas,….

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Why Learn to Code for Fun and Not Profit

Diego Basch

Twenty years into the millennium, programming jobs still pay well. Software is everywhere, and organizations need “construction workers” of code. A significant portion of the work in this field does not require a college education. New learning institutions (such as coding bootcamps) have emerged to fulfill demand. It was not always like this, of course. … Continue reading "Why Learn to Code for Fun and Not Profit".

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Austin Officials Cancel SXSW

SiliconHills

The show isn’t going on after all. On Friday, City of Austin officials held a press conference and announced the cancellation of SXSW and SXSW.EDU, set to take place next week. “We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time [.].

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