Silicon Valley’s Scarcest Resource: Technical Founders
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Skilled developers are Silicon Valley’s scarcest resource. With big companies throwing around giant salaries and startups competing fiercely for talent, the technical ability to build what they envision is often a make-or-break issue for new ventures. Which means tech industry entrepreneurs sort out into two distinct camps: those with coding skills and [...]
Read MoreFlying Lotus Teams Up With Miwa Matreyek for Multimedia Project
If you are not familiar with Steven Ellison a.k.a Flying Lotus, he is a black, experimental multi-genre music producer and laptop musician from Los Angeles, Calif. He is most known for the bumper music on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block. That in itself gives an idea of just how creative he is and now [...]
Read More3 Reasons Tomorrow’s Tech Industry Will Be More Culturally Diverse
The issue of diversity is frequently brought up across industries. It’s popularly framed in the context of top-level executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, head football coaching jobs and elected government officials. But what does this conversation look like when we discuss it in the context of digital media, given its prominence in today’s modern [...]
Read MoreInventors Propose “Liquid Keyboard” Upgrade for the iPad
Consumers love their iPads, although more than a few are frustrated by the device’s onscreen keyboard. But rather than buying a separate, tactile keyboard, two inventors have another idea. Christian Sax and Hannes Lau at the University of Technology in Sydney showed off a “Liquid Keyboard” at the Tech23 conference Tuesday in Sydney. As the video explains, [...]
Read MoreTicketmaster Teams With Facebook So You Can Sit Next To Your Friends
When Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard and his new executive team hit the road earlier this year touting a more innovative and fan-focused company — the Turnaround Tour, we dubbed it in the July/August issue — one stat was a guaranteed show-stopper. Each time a ticket buyer shared with Facebook friends that he was attending an event, [...]
Read MoreTurn Passion and Purpose Into Profit for Your Business
In episode 2 of the second season of ”The Gatekeepers Are Gone” Lamar explains the “Passion Principle”. He breaks down his strategy of following your passion to find purpose and how to use it for profit in business ventures. So the big question he asks is: What are you passionate about? He explains, what keeps [...]
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