Amplify Austin

Amplify_UFCU_verticalJoin the first community wide giving festival through Amplify Austin. 

How It Works

Visit this website (AmplifyATX.org) during Amplify Austin Day, which starts at 7pm, March 4 and ends 7pm, March 5.

At that time, this website will be transformed into a giving site; you’ll be able to search by the name of the nonprofits you love or the causes you’re passionate about.

You will have a greater impact by giving through this website on Amplify Austin Day because our sponsors have created an incentive pool to enhance your donations, and prizes of $1,000 will be given hourly to the nonprofits that garner the most dollars or donors.

On Amplify Austin Day, we are giving back to the city we love. Join us!

 

Oh Baby!

Below are two business models for the sale and distribution of fresh, organic baby food.

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From their website:  Kelly Grant and Noelle Newby founded The Baby Kitchen out of a desire to bring whole, healthy nutrition to our city’s youngest eaters.

They provide incredibly delicious, healthy baby food without all the additives and hidden ingredients. Their food is prepared fresh, then frozen immediately into one-ounce portions that enable you to thaw only what your baby will eat, so there is never any waste from unfinished jars. All  food is handmade to order in a professional commercial kitchen. Small batches ensure quality and consistency.  And for your convenience, The Baby Kitchen delivers food to your home! They purchase from local Austin are farmers whenever possible.

 

Freed Foods, which was founded as Freed Foods LLC in 2009, develops a line of dehydrated baby foods called NurturMe. The organic, gluten-free food is sold in serving-size pouches and rehydrated with water, baby formula or mother’s milk, according to the company’s website.

Netflixed

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The author, Gina Keating, as quoted by NPR’s Steve Inskeep:

“This is a much bigger bet. It’s a lot more expensive; it is going to hit their bottom line in terms of cost,” she says, “and the objective here is to sign up subscribers — that’s all it is. It’s to bring people in the door, get them to see House of Cards, and then look around and see what else there is, and stick around.”‘

Inskeep went on to ask her if Netflix, with their 15 years of data concerning subscribers,  knew that there were potential subscribers that could be reached by the business model of offering an original series, all at one time.    Keating confirmed this.

She’s correct.  The first thing I thought when I heard this interview was, maybe it’s time to add streaming to my Netflix subscription.  I’ve been Netflixed.

 

 

 

 

 

Who’s preparing your tax return?

 

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A federal court has denied H&R Block’s effort to stop Intuit from continuing to air a pair of TV commercials for TurboTax that comically suggested tax prep franchise employees worked as plumbers and clothing store clerks outside of tax season.

http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/HR-Block-Loses-Lawsuit-Trying-Stop-Intuit-TV-Ads-65495-1.html

Don’t forget your credit union

Financial Landscape

 

Credit unions have stepped up their lending. In Austin and across the country, many of these cooperatives have posted record lending growth in recent years and are pushing for the ability to do more. Meanwhile, forthcoming crowdfunding rules could open up a new, multibillion-dollar pipeline between small businesses and the investing public at large.

Read more at Statesman.com

The new water cooler

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But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal. TheNational Labor Relations Board says workers have a right to discuss work conditions freely and without fear of retribution, whether the discussion takes place at the office or on Facebook.

Read more of the article by Steven Greenhouse
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