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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. We thank IBM Customer Architect and Master Inventor Janani Janakiraman, Software Engineer Karen Siles (now a Latinitas board member!), and others they brought to help.

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

Technology is supposed to be easy-to-use and useful, and that is where the “Levittown” payment software companies excel. All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right. But when I switched from that to online ordering the revenue and the business tripled with the same customer base and, and I realized just how much friction there was in the ordering process.

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