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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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A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design

Mike Michalowicz

So when Sherri Tafoya, President and Founder of Customs Blinds & Design contacted us raving about the system, we asked her to share her experience and she graciously obliged. The post A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story. “It depends on the company.

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5 Famous Introverted Leaders And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Our schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are designed for extroverts. Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett is one of the world’s richest men and a respected financial leader. Partnering with Jobs enabled Wozniak to lead vicariously and jointly through Jobs’ more public presence.

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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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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

We should have a really nice crowd of entrepreneurs, designers, and funders there and expect a great discussion. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. An external resource will provide clear business requirements to the UX designers.

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