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Marketing is Leading Tech Companies Again, Faster Than You Think

Friday, 13 December 2024 by Paul O'Brien

The tectonic shift in how tech companies operate is unmistakable: whether evident in VCs saying Storytellers will run the world, advisors shifting to stress that media is most important, or research validating that marketing is what defines a company’s success or failure, people are waking up again to the fact that marketing runs your business.

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The Role of Ruby on Rails

Tuesday, 18 February 2014 by Paul O'Brien

Austin, Texas is a hotbed of mobile and traditional software development, startups, and Rails shops, and given my history in Silicon Valley, where Ruby on Rails has been the framework of choice for years, I wanted to find out from Lance Vaughn, CEO of CabForward, what makes Ruby on Rails in Austin. Why CabForward? The

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As Goes the Web, So Goes, well… Everything

Wednesday, 01 May 2013 by Paul O'Brien

There is a great school of thought, an interesting debate really, loosely related to the idea that we just started talking about here within the concept of architecture and it’s role in business. That is, that as technology becomes more pervasive in everything we do, so too is that the case in business. CFOs, CMOs,

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Outsourcing Collaboration

Monday, 22 October 2012 by Paul O'Brien

This past week, Cospace had the distinct pleasure of hosting some crowded discussions during Austin’s Startup Week. One topic of particular interest to us, and clearly as well to the entrepreneurial community, was that of outsourcing. As our world continues to shrink, through technology that makes it possible to work with anyone wherever they might

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