Sat.Mar 11, 2023

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6 Reasons To Disclose Your Startup Idea Before Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they don’t worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they don’t forget to listen carefully to critical feedback. They become walking public relations machines for themselves, as well as their idea.

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SVB’s Collapse Hangs Heavy Over SXSW in Austin

SiliconHills

South by Southwest kicked off Friday on the same day Federal regulators took over the failed Silicon Valley Bank. It’s the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history behind Washington Mutual in 2008.

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The Importance of Local SEO for Small Businesses

Our Own Start-up

Here are some reasons why local SEO marketing is crucial for small businesses. The post The Importance of Local SEO for Small Businesses first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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At SXSW, Ingrid Vanderveldt Provides a Sneak Peek at SHEconomy Virtual World, Which Aims to Boost Female Entrepreneurship

SiliconHills

In 2021, Empower a Billion Women topped the list of Austin’s fastest-growing companies on Inc Magazine’s list. Ingrid Vanderveldt founded the company in 2013 and launched a healthcare business to supply personal protection equipment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Weekend Favs March 11

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs March 11 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but I encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one I took on the road.

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As a Human, I’m Excited About AI. As an Investor, I’m Still Wrestling With a Few Questions

Hunter Walker

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’ Anyway, there’s no doubt that the story of the trailing months has been Artificial Intelligence. Over Homebrew’s first decade we’ve always been interested in what we’ve called ‘Applied AI’ (along with Applied CV, Applied ML)— opportunities where