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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

In western Oklahoma there are many companies depending on oil production for their livelihood. But the converse is true for you: You devoted your life to becoming a pro at what you do rather than the intricacies of business management. They may be forces of nature, such as a fire or hurricane, or market fluctuations.

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Twitter Link Roundup #188 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Iron Conversions – [link]. How Colors Affect Website Conversions | Web Design Mash – [link]. Oklahoma Surgery Center makes surgery pricing transparent to customers – [link]. Great Companies Are Storydoers | Ty Montague HBR – [link]. My product failed. The Habits of Happiness – [link]. Salmon run.

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How Best To Negotiate Your Time And The Time Of Others

YoungUpstarts

Conversely, when people make requests for your time, renegotiate better terms if you need them. Point is, if you set an hour meeting, it will take an hour. If you set a 30-minute meeting, you will take that. If you request a meeting with someone, and you are super clear on your need, propose a very short amount of time.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Do you tax a business traveler from Texas who orders TurboTax on his WiFi at Starbucks in Cherry Creek or a tourist from Oklahoma who does so from his SmartPhone while sitting on the chairlift at Vail? How can you tax those things, and would it even be worth it to try? Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5,

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

The Startup Magazine

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Can you produce venture returns in this new economic reality?

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Book: Tulsa 1921

Feld Thoughts

Most of the surface level history I know comes from high school in Dallas (where, of course, we began with Texas history), a lifetime of museums, occasional TV documentaries, Wikipedia, or conversations. When I’m interested in something, I read a book on it. I lost myself in Tulsa in 1921 yesterday afternoon and into the evening.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Looking for Funds in All the Right Places was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Dr. Altounian earned his Ph.D.