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Enterprise Software Platforms have underperformed

deal architect

My first exposure to a software “platform” was back in 1983 when McCormack and Dodge introduced Millennium and started to migrate all its modules to have the same look and feel, extensibility, queries and other features. I was part of.

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Brand Like Rachael Ray: 4 Celebrity Personal Branding Tips

YFS Magazine

You’re no doubt already posting something online, so you’ve already begun your branding journey—congrats! Now it’s time to make your efforts more intentional and focused.

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Why Promotional Products Can Play Crucial Role in Marketing Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to reaching out to more number of potential customers, businesses require promotional products. It is a cost-effective means to do so. This low-cost marketing method is quite successful in driving customers. Even big companies resort to this marketing method. For small businesses, especially like startups, promotional products can help cut their marketing budget while still allowing them to draw the attention of the people.

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How To Keep Clothes Sharp While Traveling On Business

YFS Magazine

Travel can really mess up an outfit–but it doesn’t need to. Follow this business travel advice the next time you fly, and you’ll keep things looking both sharp and professional.

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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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Can your lawyer destroy a good business deal?

Berkonomics

Over the years in business and as a member of over forty boards, I have received good advice from corporate attorneys and on occasion bad advice as well. There is a line that should be drawn in a relationship between corporate attorney and CEO or board. Attorneys are paid to protect the corporation, not to give business advice. Some are experienced enough to provide great business advice.

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Austin’s Samantha Snabes of re:3D Wins WeWork’s $1 Million Creator Award

SiliconHills

In the first WeWork Creator Awards Finals, Samantha Snabes, founder of re:3D, took home the top prize of $1 million in the for-profit company category. The Austin-based company makes Gigabot, a large 3D printer. It is also developing a new 3D printer that uses recycled materials. In addition, WeWork announced a $1 million prize to […]. The post Austin’s Samantha Snabes of re:3D Wins WeWork’s $1 Million Creator Award appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin and Dallas Make the Short List for Amazon’s HQ2

SiliconHills

Texas is the only state to have two cities as finalists for Amazon’s second headquarters in North America. Austin and Dallas made the list of the top 20 cities in North America under consideration for the $5 billion project, which is expected to create as many as 50,000 jobs. Amazon reported it reviewed 238 proposals […]. The post Austin and Dallas Make the Short List for Amazon’s HQ2 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How One Entrepreneur is Helping International Students Find Housing With Ease

Hearpreneur

Finding a house in a foreign land can be hectic. Housing Anywhere was founded by a student, Niels, from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University, the Netherlands in 2009. Niels wanted to go on an exchange semester to Singapore, but he ran into a problem: what to do with his own student room in Rotterdam during that semester? None of the local Dutch students were interested in renting a room for just 1 semester.

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Sputnik ATX Selects Four Startups for its Inaugural Class

SiliconHills

Sputnik ATX announced this week it has chosen four startups to join its inaugural class for its accelerator program. Those startups include YouPei.me, a cash-back platform for credit and debit cardholders to get Bitcoin rewards with more than 5,000 partner brands, Redenim, a data analytics platform for women to find the perfect pair of jeans, […].

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MPFR: Millennials Perpetuate Filtered Reality

Austin Startup

I’ve never had an appreciation for fine art, dining or anything remotely posh. But now, more than ever, I live moments rather than capture them. Tate Modern, London, UK (2017) I and mainly millennials are guilty of being quick to draw out our phones when we see a spectacle. We hesitate not at the opportunity to capture and save the memory, rather than live through it.

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My most viewed blog posts of 2017

Jeff Hilimire

Each year I like to review Google Analytics and figure out which of my blog posts resonated with you guys the most. It’s a good exercise to help me figure out what I’m going to write about in the upcoming year. To start, there are always posts from years past that get a lot of downloads. Most notably: 12 Characteristics of a great place to work – This post is from 2011 but still received more traffic than anything I wrote in 2017.

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The Government’s Amazing International Business Dating Service

Austin Startup

Did you know that the government was in the dating industry? I mean, technically it is a “business matchmaking service,” but let’s be serious, the government is hooking businesses up internationally, and it is pretty amazing. With the expansion of globalization, the US has developed a pretty significant trade gap (deficit). What this means is that we are importing more than we are exporting, and while that may lead to lower prices at home, this is not an ideal place to be.

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WordPress Alternatives That Are Worth a Look

The Startup Magazine

Let’s admit the fact that the WordPress is among the most used website builders in the world. It is popular, a powerful as well as a flexible content management system which allows you to have a web presence through your own website. Now that we have established this fact, the question is, is it the right website builder for you? Or are there WordPress alternatives?

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Why modern marketers and digital producers are going headless

Austin Startup

Every once in a while, a technology comes out that radically changes what developers can build for my fellow marketers. We hear about it at a periphery. Until we see the cool case studies though, it doesn’t mean anything to us. It’s just code and repos, which basically translates to “stuff that doesn’t help me meet my KPIs.” I’m going to highlight a technology that allows marketers and web producers to be more creative and reach more people, IF we’re willing to part with our traditional tools an

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4 Tips For Blending 5 Generations Into The Same Workplace

YoungUpstarts

by Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS! and author of “ Chasing Perfection: Shatter The Illusion; Minimize Self-Doubt & Maximize Success ” . “A divided country” is a prevalent theme in America today, and simultaneously many business leaders find the need for their employees to work well together has never been more important – or perhaps more challenging.

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