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Building Cities Out of Song; the Creative Engine of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tuesday, 14 January 2025 by Paul O'Brien

Music, a primary cultural cornerstone, plays a transformative role in fostering creativity, collaboration, and risk-taking — traits essential for entrepreneurship and innovation. A 2019 study by the World Economic Forum underscored the symbiotic relationship between the arts and innovation, emphasizing that creativity spurred by artistic engagement improves problem-solving and decision-making. Similarly, the National Endowment for

Published in Austin, Economic Development, Startups

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The Art Making Manchester Startups

Thursday, 30 March 2023 by Paul O'Brien

Have this unusual thesis about innovation and entrepreneurship: Cities and countries throughout the world associate themselves with “tech” or appeal to venture capital, they strive to be known as startup cities or the next Silicon Something; at the end of the day, most fail to achieve the circumstances of such an economy. Startups fail. It’s rather the

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The Vision For Austin

Wednesday, 08 March 2017 by Paul O'Brien

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 a vision. Something magical is happening by way

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Published in Brand Marketing, Texas Startups

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Austin is Music Tech

Monday, 06 June 2016 by Paul O'Brien

“Music is the greatest form of communication. It possesses the information of language, the emotion of poetry, the creativity of art and the passion of love.” That’s a thought I shared almost two decades ago with a Yahoo! time capsule (yes, there was such a thing); a sentiment I put down for posterity, digitally. Music

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Published in Austin, Startups

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Call me Ishmael (H. Melville & Carly Rae Jepsen)

Wednesday, 22 August 2012 by Paul O'Brien

It’s been far too long since I’ve written a post and we’ve been working so hard on building Cospace that I needed a break. In a moment of weakness, I had a song stuck in my head. Clarke the Intern saved me, and introduced me to a whole new world of Call Me Maybe remixes.

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Is Your Site (not your blog) Run By WordPress? Perhaps it Should Be

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 by Paul O'Brien

WordPress – The celebrated blog platform, favored by search marketers for its amazing degree of customization and built-in optimization, comes in two flavors: Hosted by wordpress.com: Gets you started as quickly and easily as the perhaps more well known hosted, and Google owned, Blogger. The WordPress platform provided by wordpress.org: The downloadable version of WordPress

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Insights / Research, Vendors / Agencies

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Pop Labs Conversion Closing Rap

Sunday, 06 April 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Poetic Prophet, Chuck, a Pop Labs super star and viral marketing genius (though they deal in SEO and search marketing) is turning interactive marketing concepts into original music. Here, a rap about making the right choices in your online marketing campaigns to increase not only traffic but the conversions you get. I’m looking forward to

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Published in Fun, Paid Search, Vendors / Agencies

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