Category: Industry

Opportunity. What is causing so many people to move to Austin? Not (just) Tech, nor Startups, it’s Opportunity

Monday, 12 April 2021 by SEO'Brien

Opportunity Education Technology Entrepreneurs Infrastructure Resulting in Opportunity. You know that licking of your lips and grasping at air that one does when trying to put in to words a dream. How you think through, as you’re talking with someone, something you just can’t quite simplify. What I’m thinking about is not a dream but

Published in Industry, Insights / Research

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The Future of our Economy Lies in Property Development and Startups Finding Common Ground

Thursday, 17 December 2020 by SEO'Brien

“Perhaps one of the most important financial decisions a forest landowner will make is determining when to harvest timber.” That, the opening of a PennState article exploring the financial decisions land owners consider in this use case, including how to determine and calculate when to maximize financial returns, prompted a thought about investing in property

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Published in Industry, Startups

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Yes, NOW is a Good Time to Startup

Thursday, 03 September 2020 by SEO'Brien

Nearly three quarters of the way through 2020, and with the world fully settled into the “new normal,” quarantine, “the recession?,” (or whatever it is that we’re calling this strange state of things), it’s still very frequently asked, “Is a time like this good time to start a startup?“ The best time is yesterday. The

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Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups

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The Best SEO Plugin for WordPress [really] [no, really this time]

Tuesday, 07 January 2020 by SEO'Brien

What are the best SEO plugins for WordPress? I love these kind of questions where every plugin developer jumps in with a “hey check out mine which I build because the mist popular one didn’t do what I want… and here are some SEO services.” And it’s particularly amusing in this case because one could

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Published in Google, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Web Design

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The Insecurity of Costs – Accelerating New Business Development

Monday, 09 September 2019 by SEO'Brien

GENERAL STARTUP STATISTICS 69 percent of U.S. entrepreneurs start their businesses at home. According to the National Association of Small Business’s 2017 Economic Report, the majority of small businesses surveyed are LLCs (35 percent) followed by S-corporations (33 percent), corporations (19 percent), sole proprietorships (12 percent), and partnerships (2 percent). 51 percent of people asked, “What’s the best way

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Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups

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The Networking to do BEFORE you Startup

Monday, 18 March 2019 by SEO'Brien

A simple list of five. The FIVE groups of people to start networking before you start anything… Toward investors. Start now. Getting know them before you need them. Get to know those who will likely support what you’re doing. They’re advisors so they can invest, not banks that are just there for capital. With potential

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Published in Industry, Startups

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From Automobile to Innovation – Stories of Entrepreneurship

Sunday, 13 January 2019 by SEO'Brien

I didn’t grow up around incredible cars, nor in a family of enthusiasts, but a few of my earliest and fondest memories involve automobiles. The first was as a child, being driven to school by mom, when she shared a passing anecdote that she had always wanted to be a race car driver (that story

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Published in Industry, Startups

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