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The Dallas startup community is booming, and just like any ecosystem, there are different branches that are suitable for distinct niche markets all over the city. Something that may come as a surprise to you, is the rise of the tech-friendly accelerator. A little Statup 101: An accelerator helps small business or startups hit the ground running with the goal of growing rapidly. Accelerator programs focus on sorting out organizational, operational, and strategic growing pains and sometimes connect those who participate with large mentor networks....

Wait, let me back up: I definitely don’t mean to simplify several hundred different fields of serious study into “wacky science tricks.” However, it has come to my attention that the advent of virtual reality simulations has spurred the scientific community to dabble in a variety of experiments featuring animals. Here are the top four. A Flight Simulator for Moths See? It’s getting weird already. Here’s the study, from the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, first published on October 30 2002, in which the team describes “a low cost, novel virtual reality-based insect flight simulator that combines visual, olfactory and mechanosensory stimuli with multichannel neurophysiological recording techniques....

So, before you go a-looking, you may want to clarify for yourself exactly what you want. Do you want someone really skilled in UX or are you more interested in the creative aspects of UI? Maybe both are really important to you.What kinds of components do you want most?What’s your budget?Do you want a full-time, an on-call long-term freelancer, or a one-shot freelancer? Once those points are clarified, here is your road map to finding a designer....

So, you’ve got an idea for a company. But, before you go about actually starting your business, you have to put a lot of consideration into the technology plan that will support the demands of your business. Living in an age where free WiFi is available at nearly every coffee shop and where every other person is playing Pokemon Go from their smartphone, it’s easy to assume that every business is operating with the latest technology or, at least, operating with the right technology solutions that fit their business model....

While those are great reasons to learn how to code, I’d like to make the case for a third camp: those who add software development to their existing job and skillset. It’s not just entrepreneurs and software developers who can benefit from coding. Professionals who work in marketing, accounting, sales, and other departments can use coding to improve their current job performance and career prospects. These are the three benefits to learning this powerful skill....

That need to build trust isn’t just for would-be world leaders, of course: It’s an essential struggle for every new app or startup on the block. An engaged, caring audience is one of the earliest and best ways to prove that your company has something special, and deserves that seed round of funding. Here’s how to get it. Treat Your Audience Like You’re Dating One recent article at the Donald W....

Guaranteed Rankings Employing SEO solutions is a great way to help with content marketing and metric analysis, leading to adjustment in SEO optimization. However, Neil Patel calls this the most interesting SEO myth out there, as it is impossible for any SEO to guarantee rankings of any kind. BMG Creative takes this even further, saying it would be unethical for any SEO professional to make such a promise. SEO is always changing, and while there are techniques that can improve rankings there is never a sure thing in SEO with rankings affected by more than just strategy offered by an SEO....

According to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, there are 15 countries with notable shortages in qualified employees for their modernized businesses. As the data shows, Japan is by far the most troublesome when it comes to their lack of suitable candidates for technology-focused careers. Even the US boasts 41 percent of firms (with 10 or more employees) have difficulty finding qualified employees. As the report states, these numbers are not surprising or uncommon among more modern countries....

What It Is Dave McClure, founding partner at 500 Startups, has the explanation behind why unicorns are getting snapped up even bigger, slow-moving companies. It’s pretty intuitive: This effect happens on a slightly lower level, too. Replace the legacy tech companies with the larger, more stable recent versions, and you’ll see Microsoft getting LinkedIn and Skype, Google shelling out for YouTube and Android, or Facebook getting WhatsApp and Instagram while falling over itself trying to kill Snapchat after nothing less than a failed acquisition....

4 Ways Technology Improves Healthcare American government plans to spend approximately $29 billion on healthcare devices’ promotion, while venture capitalists have already invested $1 billion in IT medical projects. And here’s why: Better doctor-to-patient and doctor-to-doctor communication. The fact that 60 million of US citizens do not speak English fluently perfectly justifies the growing demand for translation apps like AppTeck’s Omnifluent. Using the program, physicians can instantly translate diagnoses and prescriptions into a patient’s native language....

Modeled similarly to the popular ABC show Shark Tank, reality show Quit Your Day Job will directly tackle the glaringly obvious gap left from the under-representation of women and entrepreneurs of color. In the first episode – which has already aired – three of the four investors are women, with only one being a woman of color. Though this may be low numbers than some would like, they are still far better numbers than most of the industry....

Tech Cocktail asked: “Why is your city a startup’s paradise?” Their answers are below. 1. Startup in the New Sin City The era of sin is over. Las Vegas is now focused on startups, sustainability, spirituality, and social change. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has played a tremendous role in downtown Las Vegas’s startup culture, pledging $350 million of his own money to fund downtown businesses. Las Vegas’s real startup success is just as important its Jellies – discipline-specific coworking sessions for entrepreneurs and community leaders in such areas as tech, food, green living, and health and wellness....

Murphy is a former quantitative analyst and risk manager, engineering a risk management system and asset allocation system. Aucoin also worked in the financial world, where he used his computer savvy to decipher complex data sets. Through their business travels, Murphy and Aucoin found that online hotel search engines left a lot to be desired for upscale travelers. Hotel search engines could comb through pricing and locational data but did not consider and compare room amenities like TV size, Wi-Fi price, and room size....

The fake updates, pushed out by scammers using Magnitude exploit kits, mark a shift away from older kits that would typically take advantage of now sparsely-used or deprecated programs like Internet Explorer and Flash. The news further reinforces the importance of having antivirus software installed on your devices just in case you click a shady pop-up advertisement. What’s the Threat to Edge and Chrome Users? Discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes, the ransomware is inserted onto victims’ computers after a process facilitated by the Magnitude exploit kit....

Facebook-owned WhatsApp remains at top of the charts – though the messaging app hasn’t made as much of a dent in the US market, it’s phenomenally successful throughout the rest of the world. Storming into the top five is a little app you may just have heard of called TikTok, which has experienced a great year (despite the odd controversy) and risen up the ranks. Then there’s Disney+, an app for a service that only launched in a select few markets in November, and yet still received an eye-watering number of downloads....

TikTok is no stranger to ecommerce, having been dabbling in a variety of shopping options for years. Even so, this new update would be its biggest shift towards in-app shopping yet. How TikTok Ecommerce Works The trial efforts, currently being run with brands including clothing label Hype according to a report from Bloomberg, will allow said brands to operate dedicated stores on the platform, receiving orders directly from TikTok users....

However, US deals have fallen consistently over the last three quarters, including this one. This means that while smaller companies failed to catch investors eyes over the last year, better-established companies in Series C and beyond have been able to keep the momentum going, locking in more funding than previous quarters to date. Feel free to check out this list below of the top 10 funding rounds in the first quarter of 2016 here, and get your self motivated your another year of huge funding rounds:...

The company, which provides the tools for phone and text communication, notified the public that it has become aware of unauthorized access to “information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts” on August 4th. It was a phishing attack, meaning that Twilio employees were tricked into providing their credentials, rather than the company software itself being hacked. Sadly, phishing is on the rise, with retail and wholesale businesses together seeing increases of more than 400% in phishing attempts in the past year....

CEO Elon Musk announced that sales and engineering positions are now open in an all-hands meeting today. Twitter recruiters have been reaching out to potential employees since last week, reports show. Do you have what it takes to work at the company? Going by past precedent, you’ll have to be okay with your company making headlines about five times a day. But that’s just the start. Here’s what to know about the ins and outs of Twitter’s company culture at the moment....

It turns out, not that accurate. After all, when a now-deceased gorilla is almost tied with an actual human being in Texas, it’s time to take a look at what you’re putting out there in terms of poll numbers. But who is accurate? It turns out, everyone’s favorite 140-character social media platform is producing some of the most measurable numbers on the election. No, Twitter’s poll function is not the best way to find out who is going to win the election....