December 2011 Archive

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3rd Quarter Stats are in: Austin tops the list for start ups, Dallas receives highest dollar amount
The Texas Entrepreneur Networks has just released its Texas Start Up Equity Capital Report for Early Stage Companies  for the the third quarter of 2011. In total, venture capitalists and ...
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Hiring Employee #1
By Jason Cohen. It’s a big decision to make your first hire, because what you’re really deciding is whether you want to keep a lifestyle business or attempt to “cross the chasm” ...
Bryan-Menell
Hot Startups for 2012
Republished from AustinStartup.com. As we go into 2012 there’s definitely a good sized group of companies that are primed for rapid growth and market acceptance. I’ll give you my list ...
Nell Edgington - Social Velocity
5 Nonprofit Trends to Watch in 2012
My annual predictions for the coming year are probably a bit more wishful thinking than actual prediction. It’s hard to say if my predictions for 2011 became a reality for ...
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Tax credits for hiring Veterans? It could happen
Thousands of soldiers who served our country may soon find new opportunities to serve in the US. workforce. President Obama has called on Congress to authorize a $120 million, two-year ...
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Next for Atlanta?
Yours truly attended the semiannual Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) board meeting in Atlanta along with its 75th Anniversary celebration.  GTRC and its affiliates manage the considerable flow of sponsored ...
Joe-zente
Cash: A Common Sense Approach
When you work for a large corporation you don’t spend much time worrying about cash.  When I was a General Manager of a $100 Million Division for a large multi-national ...
Wendy Covey
5 Things I Learned During My TREW Internship
Theory x Practice is the motto of the University of Texas AdGrad program. I should know, as I’ve lived it everyday for the last year as a full-time Masters student in ...
How a Blogcano Helps Both Sides of the Conversion Rate Fraction
Conversion is when the right customers land on your site and find what they’re looking for. Google keeps tweaking its search algorithms to help them do just that. And you can ...
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Reducing energy bills with the EnTouch of a button
EnTouch Controls is succeeding, in part, because it is led by a group of serial entrepreneurs who have many good and bad experiences to draw on. Their three-year-old company monitors small ...

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Nell Edgington - Social Velocity A Career Guide For a New Generation of Change Makers
Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s new book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community ...
mj-jolda Bagels by the Batch
What’s with all the hype about “Artisan Bagels” by Dunkin' Donuts?  Does anyone even ...
Hall_Martin-150x150 Understanding the deal from the Investor’s perspective
The entrepreneur and the investor both look at the same deal but they come ...
marc nathan Entrepreneur Events: OpenCoffee
Today’s OpenCoffee brought new and familiar faces to CoffeeGroundz.  For the uninitiated, OpenCoffee is ...
Ben Dyer new 1-23-12 It’s Facebook Week…
A few weeks back I wrote a post asking where are the Facebook startup ...
Bryan-Menell Mass Relevance Secures $3.3 Million Series A
Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it ...
Thom-Singer-150x150 Networking Shortcuts for Career Success
There are no shortcuts to career success.  It takes time to building long-term and ...
Nell Edgington - Social Velocity Reader Question: How to Find Major Donors
Last month I launched a new regular series on the blog called Reader Questions. ...
Jamie-Brown The Formula for Making Client Relationships Bloom video
  I work with the best clients. That may sound like "spin" coming from a public ...
Thom Singer Does LinkedIn Matter? video
I was recently the speaker at a business event.  After my talk (about the ...