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7 Tips To Keep Your Team Ahead Of “Business As Usual”

Startup Professionals Musings

Most small businesses have now forgotten the last recession, and are back to “business as usual.” They don’t realize that business as usual is gone forever. With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Entrepreneurs that are not listening, not engaging, and not changing are destined to be left behind even in the best of times.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., and l

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What Is EAT And Why It’s Vital To Your SEO Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Expertise, Authority, Trust (or E-A-T) has been in the SEO lexicon for some time, but since ranking well on Google search engine results pages (SERPs) is becoming more difficult, it is now featuring more prominently in a wide range of strategic SEO discussions. Let’s take a closer look at why E-A-T is now such an integral part of a powerful SEO strategy.

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Product management and curiosity

VC Cafe

When you are product manager, your work is never really done. The initial launch is just the opportunity to collect more data. You learn about how people use the product, analyse the data and come up with experiments to increase usage. Many of those fail and never make it to the product. Those that do, become new features. In 2020 there is a treasure trove of training material, online courses and best practices on product management, some of it from the top PMs in the world.

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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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Crucial Things You Need To Know About Your First External Audit For Series B

YoungUpstarts

by Bryce Welker, founder of Crush The CPA Exam. You are sure to be happy when your business reaches a Series B financing round because it usually means your company has a higher valuation. However, that can make the auditing process much more complicated than it was before. You must be aware of the standards your company has to meet to pass its first external audit so you can implement the right procedures and maintain the correct documentation.

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Capital Factory Expands Into Houston by Merging with Station Houston

SiliconHills

Capital Factory, an Austin-based accelerator, last week announced it has expanded operations into Houston by merging with Station Houston. It is part of the Texas Startup Manifesto strategy Capital Factory Director Joshua Baer has articulated in the past about the major Texas cities working together to create a vibrant statewide technology industry.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

Cove.tool CEO Sandeep Ahuja recently won a Forbes 30 under 30 award The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2020 Bringing together sustainability and efficient architectural practices, the team at Cove.tool is committed to fighting climate change one building at a time. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Cove.tool is a game-changing, machine learning technology that helps users discover smarter ways to make their buildings energy efficient while saving on construction costs.

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How to write a business plan for your new startup

Our Own Start-up

Here are the four basic steps you need to take to write a comprehensive and useful business plan.

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SXSW Pitch: The 50 Finalists for 2020

Austin Startup

SXSW Pitch features 50 incredible startups from across the United States and around the world The Forrest Four-Cast: February 1, 2020 Scheduled March 14–15 at the Downtown Austin Hilton, SXSW Pitch brings together 50 of the world’s best startups. This page lists all finalists in all ten categories (as well as alternates for each category). This page also consolidates the short interviews that have been conducted with each of these finalists on Medium.

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Weekend Favs February 1

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs February 1 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 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 that I took out there on the road.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Intvo

Austin Startup

Intvo’s AI technology spotlights pedestrians to make for safer streets The Forrest Four-Cast: January 27, 2020 Meet Intvo , a startup with the target audience of everyone on the road. Assam Alzookery , Intvo founder and CEO, explains, “Our product solves the lack of communication between drivers and pedestrians. In a continuously distracted world, there needs to be an intermediate between pedestrians and drivers to ensure safety for everyone.

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Beyond the To-Do List – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

Beyond the To-Do List – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch stops by the Beyond the To-Do List podcast to chat with host Erik Fisher about his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. Beyond the To-Do List gives listeners access to the people behind the productivity. Jantsch has helped marketers boost their productivity with his five previous how-to marketing books, but his sixth book is a departure from the others—he like

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Radiobotics

Austin Startup

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 29, 2020 Here’s a problem: worldwide, there aren’t enough radiologists to meet patient needs. Enter Radiobotics , which serves hospitals, radiologists, orthopedic surgeons and, in the end, patients by automating medical image analysis, resulting in faster turnaround and fewer diagnostic errors.

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4 Ways startups can professionalize their customer interactions

Our Own Start-up

Fortunately, there are steps a business can take to improve their professional touch when it comes to customer interactions.