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+Coursefork is happy to announce
the Startup Giveback, an initiative for entrepreneurs to donate equity instead of cash to social initiatives, in partnership with
+Shoeboxed and the
+American Underground. All are welcome to our first event, which will be hosted at the Shoeboxed HQ in Durham, NC. 100% of equity will go directly to Startup Endowment, while cash donations at the door of the event will go to the Triangle Community Foundation.
Donations of all sorts, not just equity, are welcome! While we're aiming for a 1% equity donation from each participating company, you're welcome to donate cash either online or at the door of the event. Feel free to leave comments if you have questions! I hope to see you there.
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The Startup Giveback Cookout
*Startup Founders: Donate _Equity_ to Charity!*
+Coursefork is happy to announce *the Startup Giveback*, an initiative for entrepreneurs to donate equity instead of cash to social initiatives, in partnership with +Shoeboxed and the +American Underground. All are welcome to our first event, which will be hosted at the Shoeboxed HQ in Durham, NC. 100% of equity will go directly to Startup Endowment, while cash donations at the door of the event will go to the Triangle Community Foundation.
*Donations of all sorts, not just equity, are welcome!* While we're aiming for a 1% equity donation from each participating company, you're welcome to donate cash either online or at the door of the event. Feel free to leave comments if you have questions! I hope to see you there.
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2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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Onward, and Ever Upward2013 was an amazing year; between founding
+Coursefork, building
soundtrack.io and
para.io, working with several amazing startups [1], and being allowed to call myself a peer to some of the smartest people I know all throughout, it has been a year of both great achievement and personal growth. This sets an incredibly compelling stage for 2014 and everything to come therein.
Today, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the likes of Jeff Garzik [2], Patrick Nagurny, and Ian Patton under the leadership of CTO Stephen Pair at
+Bitpay, which allows anyone to quickly and seamlessly accept Bitcoin as payment, settling immediately in any currency, including USD.
Bitcoin has become one of the biggest stories of 2013, having grown over 9000% in value [3] and even surpassing Western Union in transaction volume [4]. As potentially the most counterfeit-proof form of payment in history, Bitcoin is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the Internet as society moves increasingly into decentralized systems in an era of waning trust and increasing technological awareness by growing economies like China, India, and Brazil [5].
Taking advantage of this trend of decentralization, BitPay is perfectly positioned to serve as the mechanism for BitCoin's mass-adoption as massive merchants such as
+Overstock.com move to accept this new form of payment. It's exciting to be involved with a company in this position at such an early stage, and expand the breadth of my experience to include another decentralized system, and
especially to be holding the responsibility of expanding the company's open-source initiatives and engaging the developer community in a meaningful way.
After parting ways with Coursefork late last year, I've taken a seat on the Board of Advisors, allowing the amazing team we built to realize the vision of open-sourcing the world of education [6] under the leadership of CTO
+Brian Marks. Brian was previously the CTO of successful education startup WebAssign [7], and will be an excellent steward of Coursefork's team and technology as they move towards the much-needed decentralization and open-sourcing of the education industry. My best wishes to the team as they endeavor to do so!
Exciting times all around, and I'm truly lucky to be a part of it in so many ways. Now let's go make the world a better place.
[1]: One of which, DigaForce, was just acquired:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/02/apex-tech-firm-strategic-link-partners.html?page=all — congratulations to
+Anthony Pompliano and
+Matthew Cotter!
[2]: Jeff is one of the core developers of Bitcoin and a former
+Red Hat team member from Raleigh. How's that for the Triangle Company Family tree,
+Derrick Minor?!
[3]:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/29/which-currency-is-up-over-9000-this-year-and-sells-for-almost-as-much-as-an-ounce-of-gold/[4]:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-can-be-the-new-western-union-2013-12[5]: You might recall that in March of 2013, the Cypriot government restricted withdrawals and then utilized citizens' bank accounts
directly to bail out their banking system, resulting in a surge in Bitcoin prices as individuals fled the fiat currency:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/[6]: Here's an interview I did while CTO of Coursefork with
+Jason Hibbets from
+Opensource.com that explains the vision:
http://opensource.com/education/13/9/coursefork-education-tool[7]: As a cofounder and CTO at WebAssign for 13 years, Brian took the education company from zero to over $30M in yearly revenue before becoming my co-founder at Coursefork.
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Stephen Pair: BitCoin Economy
Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay on doing business in the BitCoin economy.
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This is a massive leap forward for startup employees in every industry. Hopefully more founders move to adopt this:
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Raising a round of capital at your startup? Here's some tips from a private equity partner.
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The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
Getting Founders To Sell For Less. We investors often talk about the value gap. The Value Gap is the difference between the price you'll take and the price we'll pay. Deals go ahead once the g...
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Raising a round of capital at your startup? Here's some tips from a private equity partner.
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The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
Getting Founders To Sell For Less. We investors often talk about the value gap. The Value Gap is the difference between the price you'll take and the price we'll pay. Deals go ahead once the g...
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Great day today; it was Coursefork's first day at Triangle Startup Factory. Incredible amounts of talent and experience in a concentrated area? Yes, please. #LearnEverything
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Coursefork Among Six Chosen For The Startup Factory Fall 2013 Class | !ExitEvent
By now, you probably know that the Triangle's institution of acceleration, the recently renamed Startup Factory, has chosen six young startups to make up their Fall 2013 class.
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Coursefork has come a long way since we built the first prototype during the three-day Startup Weekend in March. Winning that competition was the first victory in the long journey we have ahead, and today is certainly another milestone.
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Coursefork is now Open.
Join our growing community to open-source the world of education. Sign up now to claim your spot. »
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RT @
martindale: This is a massive leap forward for startup employees in every industry. Hopefully more founders move to adopt this: https:
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data.triplebyte.com/fixing-the-ine…
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RT @
martindale: This is a massive leap forward for startup employees in every industry. Hopefully more founders move to adopt this: https:
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data.triplebyte.com/fixing-the-ine…
data.triplebyte.com/fixing-the-ine…
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#TSW2013 has startups working on @
GoogleGlass, Bitcoin, and open source. If that doesn't scream "innovative region", I don't know what does.
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Triangle Startup Weekend put on an amazing education-oriented hackathon this weekend, and my team won with our project, Coursefork. Would you believe we built our entire functional prototype, from nothing to MVP, in 53 hours? I'm proud to have been a part of such an amazing team, and am excited to realize the potential of this world-changing idea.
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Coursefork => open source course design - The easiest way to design and teach your course
What if the world's best instructors open sourced their courses? Sign up to be notified when Coursefork's private beta is open and let's find out...
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Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.
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Triangle Startup Weekend
Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.
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Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.
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Triangle Startup Weekend
Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.
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Since we've moved the LocalSense team into our new offices in downtown Raleigh (we're at 319 W. Martin St., feel free to swing by anytime!), we've been firing on all cylinders -- it's incredible what the community here has to offer. We love the RDU area, and want to help the startup ecosystem grow even further. If you feel the same way, check out the 90-day challenge Anthony Pompliano has put together.
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TechCrunch Raleigh-Durham And The 90 Day Challenge
This week, the TechCrunch Southeastern Mini-Meetup Tour made their Raleigh-Durham stop at Bay 7 of the American Tobacco Campus. Over 600 local entrepreneurs, technologists and investors registered to attend. It seemed like every single person showed up and even brought friends... the place was absol...
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RT @
martindale:
#TSW2013 has startups working on @
GoogleGlass, Bitcoin, and open source. If that doesn't scream "innovative region", I don'…
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RT @
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#TSW2013 has startups working on @
GoogleGlass, Bitcoin, and open source. If that doesn't scream "innovative region", I don'…
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RT @
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#TSW2013 has startups working on @
GoogleGlass, Bitcoin, and open source. If that doesn't scream "innovative region", I don'…
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Interesting article about a startup that has focused on hiring people with Asperger's Syndrome, seeking their attention to detail and comfort with repetition.
I've worked with several people on RolePlayGateway staff, past and present, who have Asperger's. I've been impressed by these same attributes time and time again, but I'm not sure how I feel about seeking them out specifically for these tasks.
Thoughts?
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Startup company succeeds at hiring autistic adults
The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Jamie Specht is bothered by bright lights, vacuum cleaners and the feel of carp...
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Interesting article about a startup that has focused on hiring people with Asperger's Syndrome, seeking their attention to detail and comfort with repetition.
I've worked with several people on RolePlayGateway staff, past and present, who have Asperger's. I've been impressed by these same attributes time and time again, but I'm not sure how I feel about seeking them out specifically for these tasks.
Thoughts?
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Startup company succeeds at hiring autistic adults
The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Jamie Specht is bothered by bright lights, vacuum cleaners and the feel of carp...
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Interesting article about a startup that has focused on hiring people with Asperger's Syndrome, seeking their attention to detail and comfort with repetition.
I've worked with several people on RolePlayGateway staff, past and present, who have Asperger's. I've been impressed by these same attributes time and time again, but I'm not sure how I feel about seeking them out specifically for these tasks.
Thoughts?
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Startup company succeeds at hiring autistic adults
The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Jamie Specht is bothered by bright lights, vacuum cleaners and the feel of carp...
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Interesting article about a startup that has focused on hiring people with Asperger's Syndrome, seeking their attention to detail and comfort with repetition.
I've worked with several people on RolePlayGateway staff, past and present, who have Asperger's. I've been impressed by these same attributes time and time again, but I'm not sure how I feel about seeking them out specifically for these tasks.
Thoughts?
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Startup company succeeds at hiring autistic adults
The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Jamie Specht is bothered by bright lights, vacuum cleaners and the feel of carp...
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+Daniel Ely Rankin thanks, appreciate it. Feel free to give me your thoughts. My startup is already taking into account things like GitHub accounts in how software engineers should be evaluated but if you have other ideas on how you think a potential employer could fairly evaluate a canidate outside a resume, I'm always open to some ideas.
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Thanks for sharing that
+Eric Martindale . I think you may know but in case you don't, fully agree with your approach. I agree so much that I'm building my business around it :)
My startup is based around the idea that for software job, the resume needs to die. There are better ways for tech companies to find tech talent and we hope to be the solution that provides it.
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No problem,
+Keiichi Matsuda! I was glad to find you here on Google+. The last startup I was a part of (Mirascape) was very familiar with it, as we were building an augmented reality platform and used it as reference material.
Have any thoughts on Google's foray into augmented reality? I ran into Johnny Lee from Google [x] at ARE 2011 last year, but didn't find out that they were working on glasses until earlier this year.
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Last week, I got the opportunity to stay in a cabin on a remote island and go surf fishing with my father and uncle. We left at 3AM (the morning after Thanksgiving) to make the 7AM ferry, and were fortunate enough to have only light wind and warm sun for our short visit. I captured this awesome sunset after casting my line at the end of the first day.
Even as a boy, this yearly tradition was something I'd look forward to all year. Unfortunately as my schedule became increasingly busy over the past decade, I wasn't able to join in on the often week-long excursion. Now that I'm older and caught up in the startup lifestyle , I have a new appreciation for the rejuvenating nature of this magical place.
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I'm competing in this event, and I need your vote! We're nearing the final 24 hours of this competition, and my startup has fallen into
fifth place. Go here and vote for
LocalSense :
http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash-la-june-2012?for=localsense&vote=1#participantsLocalSense™ was founded by myself,
+Robert Rice,
+Daniel Barbour, and
+John Finocchiaro at the end of last year after seeing an enormous gap between how businesses and consumers use social media. We've spent the past six months building an incredibly powerful geo-aware platform to help bridge this gap and are extremely excited to get it into your hands. While we're in private alpha right now, but we're aiming to open a public beta by mid-June -- and winning this contest will help us get there.
Please vote for LocalSense, and if you want to be a
really big help -- share it with your friends in the limited time we've got left!
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Vote for LocalSense in the competition: Vator Splash LA (June 2012)
Calling all entrepreneurs! Vator Splash is going back to LA for its second year. Like other Splash events and competitions, CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their p
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I'm competing in this event, and I need your vote! We're nearing the final 24 hours of this competition, and my startup has fallen into
fifth place. Go here and vote for
LocalSense :
http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash-la-june-2012?for=localsense&vote=1#participantsLocalSense™ was founded by myself,
+Robert Rice,
+Daniel Barbour, and
+John Finocchiaro at the end of last year after seeing an enormous gap between how businesses and consumers use social media. We've spent the past six months building an incredibly powerful geo-aware platform to help bridge this gap and are extremely excited to get it into your hands. While we're in private alpha right now, but we're aiming to open a public beta by mid-June -- and winning this contest will help us get there.
Please vote for LocalSense, and if you want to be a
really big help -- share it with your friends in the limited time we've got left!
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Vote for LocalSense in the competition: Vator Splash LA (June 2012)
Calling all entrepreneurs! Vator Splash is going back to LA for its second year. Like other Splash events and competitions, CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their p
Replies are automatically detected from social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. To add a comment, include a direct link to this post in your message and it'll show up here within a few minutes.
I'm competing in this event, and I need your vote! We're nearing the final 24 hours of this competition, and my startup has fallen into
fifth place. Go here and vote for
LocalSense :
http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash-la-june-2012?for=localsense&vote=1#participantsLocalSense™ was founded by myself,
+Robert Rice,
+Daniel Barbour, and
+John Finocchiaro at the end of last year after seeing an enormous gap between how businesses and consumers use social media. We've spent the past six months building an incredibly powerful geo-aware platform to help bridge this gap and are extremely excited to get it into your hands. While we're in private alpha right now, but we're aiming to open a public beta by mid-June -- and winning this contest will help us get there.
Please vote for LocalSense, and if you want to be a
really big help -- share it with your friends in the limited time we've got left!
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Vote for LocalSense in the competition: Vator Splash LA (June 2012)
Calling all entrepreneurs! Vator Splash is going back to LA for its second year. Like other Splash events and competitions, CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their p
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