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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!

Occam's Razor

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Their efforts in this crisis have been admirable, but as Jake and Irma made clear in our conversation, this is not enough, we need a widespread, fully funded WPA scale effort to put Americans back to work. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Raylene and Jen. I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin. 4:48) Jen and Raylene's best quarantine tips. (5:50)

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

In our conversation, we talked about the history and difficulties of school nutrition before the pandemic, scaling a company while having a young family, what's changed at Revolution Foods since March, and how investors and partners have supported and helped expand the company. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Our name came from very humble origins. Didn’t matter who you were or how old you were, I always found a reason to strike up a conversation.

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“Is Austin Racist?” Let’s Start There.

Austin Startup

Several anecdotes and insights were shared by the panelists for the hour-long conversation (little known facts: Huston-Tillotson was founded here years before UT-Austin and Austin’s Public Library System is led by a black man), and then things really heated up in the packed room when anonymous audience questions were introduced.

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

Fortune Magazine, Details Magazine, and International Business Times have named Dayton to their Top 10 lists of most influential people in the cannabis industry. Catch his keynote presentation “ Raising Capital at the Crossroads ” at 2:00 pm on Friday, April 20.

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