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January 18th, 2012 by corbett3000
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Ford’s Tweeting Cake and the Rise of Social Machines

We recently had the good fortune of working with Ford as our presenting sponsor of DCWEEK – our 10,000+ person festival focused on bringing together designers, developers and entrepreneurs to do great things together. Check out the sweet recap video: Ford was the perfect fit of DCWEEK because they continue to push the envelope using [...]

Posted in Experiential Marketing, Our Work, Social App Dev, Social Data Visualization...
December 14th, 2011 by corbett3000
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[Animation] The 2011 Mobile Year in Review

Are you attached to your mobile device? RU a 14 yr old girl or txt like 1? Do you love beautiful info-graphic animations? If you answered yes to any of these then check out our most recent animation for Mobile Future – The “2011 Mobile Year in Review“. 2010′s Mobile Year in Review can be [...]

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December 8th, 2011 by corbett3000
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Talent Crunch: How America is Falling Behind

I’m amazed to learn that America is only graduating about 15,000 computer science majors per year (see the full report below). The demand for talent of this kind nationally has got to be 3-4x that. There is our gap – call it 50,000 high paying gigs that our tech companies can’t fill. Perhaps StartupVisa (more [...]

Posted in Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Design
December 6th, 2011 by corbett3000
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CodeNow: A Startup Non-Profit That Teaches Kids to Code

  Most of us in the tech industry know there’s a huge issue in America with regard to engineer scarcity, as well as the broad digital divide between the digerati and the under-served. CodeNow is a DC startup non-profit that aims to solve both problems by teaching disadvantaged kids to code. This holiday season CodeNow [...]

Posted in Community Development
November 2nd, 2011 by corbett3000
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35 Reasons You Shouldn’t Date a Tech Entrepreneur

We’re cranking away on our products over here – and it got me thinking about the dating life of tech entrepreneurs. Which one do you like best? 1. Freemium models are your competition at the bar. 2. When you’re talking, they’re thinking about users. 3. When you’re laying in bed, they’re thinking about #winning. 4. [...]

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