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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

author of “ The Art of Preventing Stupid: How to Build a Stronger Business Strategy through Better Risk Management “ A recent Internet search for “problems in business” on Google produced 1.76 billion entries, often a list of the top 20 or 10. by Matthew Neill Davis, Esq., But it will apply to both you and your employees.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

The coming-together of these two musical virtuosos resulted in a 16-year partnership that produced instant classics like Oklahoma! Name your favorite musical; odds are these guys wrote it. State Fair , South Pacific , The King and I , and The Sound of Music. It’s also the only team that doesn’t officially exist.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

Today in Oklahoma City, Okla, Keith and Cheryl own three separate companies that manage and dispose of a variety of waste, from hazardous and commercial waste, to the treatment of industrial waters and grease trap cleaning. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either.

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The Flaming Lips and Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. It’s in just a few weeks, so register, and make plans now to arrive in Oklahoma City for the March 31st one day event. Oklahoma City has turned the corner on talent exporting, let me explain.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

We note that if one were to count up the total number of Austin-based fund managers who are women, minorities, or identify as LGBTQ you could count them on less than two hands. at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,