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of marketers view a single online collaboration system as a differentiator when choosing their agency. read full post»
As I prepared for my interview with Mr. Swindle, I remember trying to figure out what Fippex does. The site's video helped to define the company's big picture but it was not until I read the case studies that things made sense. But the problem wasn't that I didn't know much about Fippex, I didn't know anything about the tech startup world. I learned a lot very quickly. read full post»
Than, short for Nathaniel, is a twenty-one year old rising senior at Northwestern University where he studies Communications and Religion. Born and raised in Morristown, NJ, Than grew up the youngest of four kids in a family of six. He attended Morristown High School where he was involved in student government, theatre, baseball, and choir. At Northwestern, he sings and arranges music as a member of Purple Haze A Cappella, he coordinates the Freshman Emerging Leadership Program, and Than is also an alumnus of Chi Psi Fraternity. read full post»
Everybody’s talking about the CLOUD...It might save the U.S. Government $12 billion rom the annual deficit, it’s currently creating a generation of tech-savvy kids with their heads stuck in this new trend, and according to Bloomberg’s Adam Johnson, it’s the “single most powerful theme within tech today.” Cloud storage, or the ability to quickly access your content from any device when and where you want it, is a cultural phenomenon. The biggest players right now are Dropbox with an impressive 50 million users and Box with 8 million users respectively. Their valuations are incredible and the amount of capital they have raised is mind boggling. Moreover, finally after 6 years of talk and rumors, Google recently released their version of cloud storage named Google Drive. And even Microsoft hopped on the bandwagon when they released their version called SkyDrive. So what does this all mean? Though the Cloud has made content easily sharable and accessible for users, it has become significantly more complex and difficult for system administrators to contain and control such content– a phenomenon we call “Cloud Chaos”. read full post»
As a relatively new company, we at Fippex are excited about the Chicago entrepreneurial community. There is a lot happening and lately, we’ve been feeling extremely welcome and inspired by the business leaders of Chicago and we’d like to tell you why. read full post»