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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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20 Coolest iPad Ideas For Your Library

YoungUpstarts

One pioneer in the field has been the New York Public Library, whose Biblion app lets users explore research materials (including those most commonly consulted) from anywhere with an Internet connection. The Omaha Public Library recently applied for, and received, a grant that let them purchase six iPads.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

Big Omaha. I attended Big Omaha last year and was thrilled with the speakers and attendees I met. PSFK presents a ‘curated collection of creative thinkers will present new ideas in design, innovation and storytelling to an audience of peers’ in New York City on April 11. Empact Showcase 2014.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The Ultimate Office for Athletes and People Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle

David Teten

We think there’s a way to design office work so that physical fitness is integrated throughout your day. As the New York Times recently wrote, sitting kills. We think that many of the design changes we envision cost little or nothing, and can save us and our team money on their health care in the long run.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. My colleagues at ff Venture Capital and I designed our office to make working a workout — a (partial) substitute for visiting a gym.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The New York startup scene is vibrant and launching companies that play to NYs great strengths which are many. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. And in commerce we have NastyGal, DailyLook, JustFab and many others. KickStarter? Gilt Groupe, AdoreMe, Thrillist, Birchbox?