Mon.Feb 10, 2020

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular company.

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How to Protect Your Enterprises’ Data Online

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When it comes to business success, data protection is vital. Even if an enterprise generates an endless amount of sales and glowing feedback from customers, this could be wiped before you could even blink, by a crippling cybersecurity attack. Yet the risk of your data landing in the wrong hands is constantly growing. This is because the workplace continues to allow employee-owned devices to be used.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular company.

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7 Business Leadership Keys To A Thriving New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.

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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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The Role Of Development Financial Institutions In The New Millennium

YoungUpstarts

Paul Van Der Merwe is credited as being the first person that said: “money makes the world go round”. This is just as true today as it has ever been. But, the good news is that approaches to money change, where it would be difficult to secure the funds you need, this is no longer always the case. Development Financial Institutions (DFI). Most DFIs have been created by governments allowing them to encourage money lending to the right causes and thereby boost economic growth, as well as supporting

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3 Startup Ideas That’ll Make You Some Money in 2020

The Startup Magazine

Is owning a business your only professional goal? Are you still in need of that one amazing idea that’ll be sure to get you started on the entrepreneurial career path? Well, you’re in luck, as a number of brilliant business ideas can be found below. Turning your Ideas into Assets. Rest assured, you don’t need a lot of funding to get these startup ideas off the ground.

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Startup Opportunities in the Motion Control Market

The Startup Magazine

Motion control has quickly taken an integral role in the development of modern industrial processes and consumer products. Motion control allows the automation of any application to be enhanced offering superior movement, precision, velocity, and force. Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash. By working with an automated system that is made up of motion controllers, hardware, drives, feedback devices, sensors, and software tools it can help to create the route the motor follows.

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How Business Directories Are Still Beneficial For Businesses

YoungUpstarts

As a small business owner, you’re probably aware of the existence of online business directories. However, you probably don’t realize quite how valuable they could be to your business. There is a misconception that many believe about these directories – that they are just a digital form of the Yellow Pages. This is inaccurate to say the very least. They are so much more than that.

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Six Vehicle Features That Keep Your Employees Safe

The Startup Magazine

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) , over 37,000 people were killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2017. Furthermore, research has shown that the majority of road accidents are caused by human error. Employers must do what they can to keep their employees safe when acquiring or leasing vehicles for employee use, as well as to reduce business liability of company vehicle accidents.

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The Best Strategies For Boosting Your Brand’s Instagram In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Boosting your Instagram presence can seem like a pretty daunting task. Not only does it require knowing how to get attention from people, but doing so in a way that captures and keeps their attention long-term. To capture this trend ourselves, we decided to study some of the best strategies you can use to get your Instagram up and beyond in 2020. Check out what we learned below: Make It Apparent What You Stand For.

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10 Ways to Jumpstart Your Instagram Marketing Campaign

The Startup Magazine

Instagram is one of the most effective forms of social media to reach audiences under 40. When you want to get in front of as many people as possible, you can buy Instagram followers to jumpstart your marketing campaign. Just having followers is not enough, though. You need to get them engaged, and keep them engaged. Once you figure out the formula that works for you, then you will see real, consistent growth.

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5 Ways To Become A Thought Leader In 90 Days (Or Less)

YFS Magazine

Becoming a thought leader can provide a steady stream of new business opportunities, and these five tips can help you get there.

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How to Find Capital for Business Expansion in Nevada?

The Startup Magazine

The goal of every Nevada business owner and entrepreneur is to make more profit and grow their business. Business expansion, however, doesn’t come easy. It requires a lot of planning as well as funds to implement. Photo by Deborath Ramos on Unsplash. If you are looking for capital for business expansion in Nevada, then this article will provide all the information you need about your financing options for business expansion.

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The Secret To Retaining Women In Management

YFS Magazine

Companies with gender-diverse leadership teams were 21% more likely to outperform on profitability and 27% more likely to outperform on value creation.

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Monday Motivation: THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES – Powerful Motivational Speech

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Entrepreneurship is hard and lonely but you have to love it. The only thing you can control is your work ethic. Match your actions with your mouth. Work hard, every waking hour especially when starting a company. If you work more, more could happen.

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8 Ways Your AP Process Leaks Spend – And How AI Can Prevent It

YoungUpstarts

by Anant Kale, CEO of AppZen. Today’s companies put huge efforts into negotiating the best terms with their suppliers. Procurement teams regularly spend weeks or months going back and forth on contract terms and volume discounts to get the most bang for their buck. Too often, these savings aren’t realized. Suppliers may ignore the negotiated terms when invoicing, and AP teams, faced with a deluge of invoices and limited time to get payments out the door, only sample select transactions and only

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

The Betmarkets team includes Afonso Vieira , Gaya Rabello and André Flórido. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Did you win big on the Super Bowl? Are you already planning your NCAA March Madness bracket? Or maybe you can’t wait to make your picks for Euro 2020. If you’re interested in sports betting (or adding a fresh element to your investment portfolio), Betmarkets thinks it knows how you can boost your profits.

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5 Easy Ways Your Coffee Shop Can Make More Money

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Starting a coffee shop business is an idea that’s worth the effort. You’ll be up against massive competitors, like Starbucks, along with other independent coffee chains. Therefore, finding customers and making money can be challenging. But, we love a challenge, right?! There are lots of ideas to help you make more money from your coffee shop business.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Arist

Austin Startup

The Arist team includes (left to right): Ryan Laverty , Maxine Anderson , Joe Passanante and Michael Ioffe. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. Arist helps leading organizations create, launch, and assess text message courses.

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The Biggest Changes in Office Space Design

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There’s a lot to consider when choosing office space. Here are five of the biggest factors to take into account when office-hunting. Cost. Firstly, you should decide on your budget. If you’re renting office space, you’ll need to have a maximum monthly lease cost in mind. If you’re buying – or even building – your own property, you’ll need to consider mortgage rates and down payments costs.

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How to build empathy and gain insights with a company-wide customer support day

Austin Startup

Customer support teams deserve empathy! I’ve long been an advocate for empathy-building in companies by promoting and communicating user voice as much as possible. It’s also inherent to my role to drive a customer-centric product. Whilst reading a recommended article (thanks, Osama Hanif! ) I came across an interesting initiative from former ClassPass and now Skyscanner CMO Joanna Lord.

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7-Figure Small – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

7-Figure Small – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch talks about his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur , on the 7-Figure Small podcast with host Brian Clark. Being an entrepreneur is hard. It can feel isolating and self-doubt often creeps in, so it’s important to find ways to become more self-reliant.

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Arist

Austin Startup

The Arist team includes (left to right): Ryan Laverty , Maxine Anderson , Joe Passanante and Michael Ioffe. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. Arist helps leading organizations create, launch, and assess text message courses.

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Top Ways to Effectively Finance Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Your business development starts with your finances and investing them wisely to ensure you are getting the most out of your business. One of the biggest challenges you will encounter will be how to do this. You will need a good working ethic, and funding is key to ensure you can get the business off the ground. There are ways to help keep your costs down but how effective they will be will depend upon how you implement them and the way you keep up with them all.

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How to build empathy and gain insights with a company-wide customer support day

Austin Startup

Customer support teams deserve empathy! I’ve long been an advocate for empathy-building in companies by promoting and communicating user voice as much as possible. It’s also inherent to my role to drive a customer-centric product. Whilst reading a recommended article (thanks, Osama Hanif! ) I came across an interesting initiative from former ClassPass and now Skyscanner CMO Joanna Lord.

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The Difference Between Translators And Interpreters

YoungUpstarts

Translators and interpreters are all part of one family of paraphrasers whose goal is to deliver a message from one language to another. Both professions have to have a good grasp of different languages. Even better, to interest themselves with the culture that follows that particular language. But to become a translator and interpreter would require you to have a different set of skills.

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

The Betmarkets team includes Afonso Vieira , Gaya Rabello and André Flórido. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Did you win big on the Super Bowl? Are you already planning your NCAA March Madness bracket? Or maybe you can’t wait to make your picks for Euro 2020. If you’re interested in sports betting (or adding a fresh element to your investment portfolio), Betmarkets thinks it knows how you can boost your profits.