“Results Are In: Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition - Above the Law” plus 2 more
“Results Are In: Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition - Above the Law” plus 2 more |
- Results Are In: Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition - Above the Law
- 7 clever tips that will turn your side hustle into something bigger. - Mamamia
- The Creator of Google Voice on How 5G Will Change the Way You Work - Inc.
| Posted: 09 Dec 2019 01:16 PM PST  (Image via Getty) Three weeks ago, we invited readers to vote to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at the American Bar Association's TECHSHOW conference, which is Feb. 26 to 29, 2020, in Chicago. Vote you did. Voting ended Friday night and we received a total of 38,715 votes. We are now pleased to announce the winners. These 15 startups will be provided space at a steeply discounted cost to exhibit their product or service in the special Startup Alley located within TECHSHOW's exhibit hall. In addition, each startup will face off in an opening night pitch competition judged by an audience of TECHSHOW attendees. The winner of the pitch competition wins a package of marketing and advertising prizes, including a free both at the 2021 TECHSHOW. Here are the winners in order of their vote tallies. Descriptions were provided by each company. The full ballot with more details on each company is here.
Note to winners: You will be receiving emails from us with more details and event logistics. Congratulations to all! Robert Ambrogi  |
| 7 clever tips that will turn your side hustle into something bigger. - Mamamia Posted: 09 Dec 2019 09:15 PM PST  With more and more people having their own startups or "side hustles" in addition to the 9-5, it can sometimes feel overwhelming. Juggling too many competing priorities and trying to complete tasks that you have no interest in or experience with, like payroll or legal issues, seem part and parcel with getting a small business off the ground. But Kyelie Baxter, an MYOB accountant and consultant from Burleigh Heads, Queensland, believes it doesn't have to be this way. Kyelie, who is the managing partner of IQ Accountants, has used the lessons of running her own successful business to help others in her local area with theirs. Along the way, she's built up a strong network of female mentors, mentees and customers. Mamamia asked Kyelie to share the key actionable tips about how to make your startup or side hustle not only take off, but stand out. 1. Back yourself.Let's start with a very straightforward, but important one. Years ago, Kyelie received some words of wisdom from her grandmother that has always stayed with her: "If you're going to back anyone, back yourself." This is advice Kyelie often comes back to, even today, and will often share with her clients. "It gives you the motivation and the self-confidence to do what your gut is telling you," she explains. "When sometimes there are voices from others or even internally that are telling you otherwise." 2. Take safe risks."There are so many ways to prevent or avoid things going wrong. It is about doing things safely like putting systems and processes in place, figuring out how to do things, making sure you are not wasting time and not being afraid to do the hard work," Kyelie says. "Work out how you are going to do things and how you will manage that before your side business launches or becomes successful. Set up customer service processes, a marketing plan and set your goals before you launch so there are actionable plans," she says. A part of the hard work needed in running any sort of successful business is getting good advice from the start, usually from an accountant and a solicitor to avoid what Kyelie calls "a legal minefield or a tax nightmare". 3. Don't take too much on yourself.A common mistake people make is "taking too much on themselves", according to Kyelie. People often have a view that paying someone else to do specific tasks will cost too much or that because they are a small business that they can take it on themselves, and this can often make people lose sight of why they started the side hustle initially. "When people do this they often let the business side drain their creative side," Kyelie explains. Look into systems that can help simplify things for you. MYOB are the leading specialists in simplifying accounting, payroll, tax and more, so you can fill those gaps and focus on what you are strongest at, and why you started the business in the first place. 4. Automation, automation, automation."Automation is so important," Kyelie shares. "Finding out what technology exists to streamline your processes, so you can work smarter and faster is a really important part of this." Kyelie uses MYOB's innovative digital systems tools, which help to automate tasks in a number of areas, including payroll, tax and job costing, making it much more efficient and streamlined. "Automation can make the biggest, biggest difference for a micro business," she says. "It's a game changer." 5. Get advice from the right people.  |
| The Creator of Google Voice on How 5G Will Change the Way You Work - Inc. Posted: 09 Dec 2019 01:05 PM PST Soon, your phone will be able to handle anything you normally do on your desktop computer--no matter where you are. That moment can't come too soon for Craig Walker, co-creator of the communication platform Google Voice. Walker co-founded personal communication startup GrandCentral in 2005. Just two years later, Google purchased the company and rebranded it as Google Voice. Today, Walker is co-founder and CEO of Dialpad, a company that makes a cloud-based platform that powers various aspects of businesses' voice communication, from hosting conference calls to helping train call center employees. For clients in sales and customer service, the San Francisco-based firm's software lets a user on a phone call see real-time conversation transcriptions on their screens; artificial intelligence then provides sentiment analysis and suggests answers to customers' questions. The 450-person company has been preparing for the launch of 5G, the fifth-generation wireless network, which will enable Dialpad to expand its offerings for mobile customers. Currently, many of Dialpad's features are only available to desktop users. That will change with the rollout of 5G. "Once we get to a point of being able to assume the end user has this level of connectivity, we can start pushing out all these features to mobile," Walker says. With 5G, he says, "your mobile phone has all the functionality that your computer has when it's connected to a super-high-speed network." On videoconference calls, Walker says, you'll be able to get a crystal-clear picture with no need to connect to Wi-Fi. You'll also be able to add more people to the conference without losing quality. "You'd get a little constrained by the screen size and how much your eyes can discern, but at the end of the day those are just user interface and design limitations," Walker says. "You no longer have boundaries that are based on the network quality." Looking at the bigger picture, Walker predicts that higher-speed connections will erase much of the friction inherent to working remotely. Companies will have little hesitance about hiring the best employees regardless of their location. "The future of work is letting people be productive from wherever they are, however works best for them," he says. "And 5G is a big piece of allowing that to happen." Of course, this is all dependent on telecom companies' actually making 5G accessible everywhere. Many carriers started rolling out 5G in the latter half of 2019, and most of the early beneficiaries have been urban areas. Some experts have expressed concern that the technology will roll out slowly--if at all--to rural customers because of the low return on investment of building infrastructure in sparsely populated areas. But if it does, expect big changes. Though Walker admits he's biased, he predicts that communication will be the industry most revolutionized by the rollout of 5G. "This will affect the whole future of work," he says, "and the future of society, and the future of productivity."  |
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