Archive for Blogs
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The Brave New World that is Healthcare Reform
Given our current situation Aldus Huxley is apropos. At the Austin Chamber of Commerce Business-Northwest Business Counsel’s August Monthly Lunch Melissa Roush, along with fellow panelists, Bobby Jenkins of ABC Home & Commercial Services and United Healthcare lobbyist Chris Cronn and modera...
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Crush It! An Evening with Gary V on Sept 15
Each year Texchange hosts one big blockbuster event with a fantastic speaker that is open to the public (other events are for members only). This year on Sept 15th, we’re bringing Gary Vaynerchuk to Austin to speak at the AT&T Conference Center at UT. Gary first came to internet stardom with h...
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Forrester on Managing Technical Debt
Forrester Research analysts Dave West and Tom Grant just published their report on Agile 2010. Here is the section in their report on managing technical debt: Managing technical debt Dave: The Agile community has faced a lot of hard questions about how a methodology that breaks development i...
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Cha-Cha-Changes: Conform to the Recent I-9 Change
As they say, the only constant is change. Well, here comes some more that is important to you and your business regarding how you retain your company’s new hire paperwork. Effective August 23, 2010, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released final rules on how companies can store thei...
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Taking the Pulse of the Mobile Tech Industry (2010-2011)
One of the cool things about helping judge/select the mobile sessions for SXSW Interactive Festival is that it is like taking the pulse of the Mobile industry — how the mobile industry and technologists feel about the state of things. This year’s mobility and new technology submissions sh...
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Intuit Makes Mobile Credit Card Acceptance Easier
In all the years I have followed IntuitTM, I have never seen a clunker product. Recently Intuit and a hardware partner introduced an iPhoneTM application/hardware combination that allows easy credit card swiping and processing anywhere the iPhone works.[full post] ...
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Financing Not Fundraising: Finding Individual Donors
In part four of our ongoing Financing Not Fundraising blog series, we are focusing on the most untapped, greatest sustainable funding opportunity facing the nonprofit sector. Individual donor dollars make up 80% of the private money entering the nonprofit sector each year, compared to 5% from corpor...
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Who Really Was the Man Behind the Curtain in the Women in Tech Debacle?
Michael Arrington can be a harsh person, but he is smart. I wouldn’t say that he and other TechCrunch writers are the nerdiest in the industry, but I’d trust his assessment of whether or not a startup will make money and have a viable future. Having such brutal honesty offline AND online is ...
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Outline of the Technical Debt Seminar at the Cutter Summit
Pictured above are speakers of the forthcoming Cutter Summit. Between the seventeen of us we will cover a broad spectrum of IT topics such as Agile, Enterprise Architecture, Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Governance and Security. Inter-disciplinary...
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Federal Government Spent More with SMB in 2009
According to a study performed by the SBA, the U.S. government significantly increased the amount of purchasing it made with small business owners in 2009 across 5 classes of small business.[Full Post] ...
