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"The best renewal is no renewal. So closing a three-year agreement, right?"In today's episode of our Go To Market Series from the Bricks & Bytes Podcast, we have Kevin Halter (CRO of OpenSpace) share his journey from scaling PlanGrid from $5M to $100M+ ARR and building high-performing sales teams in construction tech.Tune in to find out about:✅ Why construction tech requires a unique go-to-market approach focused on project-level ROI✅ How to transition from project-level sales to enterprise agreements (the key to breaking the $10M ARR ceiling)✅ What to look for when hiring sales talent ("fire in the belly")✅ When founders should hire their first VP of Sales vs CROWhether you're a founder struggling with the 5-10M ARR plateau or a sales leader in construction tech, this episode delivers practical insights on building scalable go-to-market motions in an industry where "it's easy to start a pilot, but hard to scale."06:30 Introduction to Construction Tech Journey09:30 Scaling from 5M to 100M ARR12:31 Understanding Project-Level Value15:22 Building Trust and Transparency in Construction18:28 Transitioning to Enterprise-Level Sales21:28 The Importance of Customer Success Management24:28 Hiring the Right Sales Team27:29 Effective Communication with Executives30:24 Building Long-Term Partnerships33:31 Creating a Scalable Sales Model44:47 Building Long-Term Partnerships (appears to be repeated)48:30 Lessons from Biotech for Construction Tech53:17 Hiring and Scaling Sales Team57:57 Developing Talent and Leadership1:07:31 Choosing the Right Company to Join1:14:53 When to Hire a Chief Revenue Officer

Anna rose from inside sales support to a sales role at Oracle, to startup PlanGrid, then Autodesk (acquired PlanGrid) and now at TigerEye as VP of Sales. How did she do it?  Anna is very conversational and I really enjoyed hearing her tips in doing well in sales and also what she has to say about AI. Listen to what she has to say about being a "lone wolf" and why you don't want to be that. Follow Anna here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-r-a375483/ Follow Women Sales Pros: @womensalespros on Instagram Sign up for our 2x a month e-news: subscribe: https://bit.ly/thewspnews Contribute: https://forms.gle/v9rRiPDUtgGqKaXA6 Past News Issues: bit.ly/past_news_issues

In 2011, Tracy Young co-founded PlanGrid, which made software for construction teams. After scaling the company to 450 people and raising $69 million, it was acquired by Autodesk in 2018 for $875 million. That's a win, but Tracy and her partners didn't go for the exit because they'd reached the peak of the mountain. They cut the deal because PlanGrid was behind in the market, and they didn't know how to catch up. Three years later, during the pandemic, Tracy and her husband, Ralph Gootee, co-founded TigerEye, a RevOps AI agent that lets analysts answer questions and allocate resources based on data that's updated multiple times each hour.  Last year, TigerEye closed a $30 million Series A. She describes it as “moneyball for business,” the tool she wished she'd had at PlanGrid when she was fighting entrenched competitors who were just better at enterprise sales.  In part one of our interview, she explains why they started their new company up in stealth and how TigerEye reflects her vision of what enterprise software should accomplish. She also shared what she'd learned as a CEO her second time around about building early teams and managing a hybrid workplace. Subscribe now to get part 2: Her approach to work-life balance The unique challenges women founders face while fundraising How to run a board meeting in 60 minutes, and The importance of gaming out worst-case scenarios. Runtime: 23:09 EPISODE BREAKDOWN (2:53) TigerEye's origin story: “We wanted a second chance, and that became a big desire of ours.” (5:11) “There's certain decisions that only leadership and the CEO can make.” (7:58) “We just really sucked at selling to the enterprise.” (9:53) How to manage customer discovery while you're in stealth. (15:53) Tracy's tactics for managing a remote-first team effectively. (19:25) When it comes to personnel, it's “much harder to be mediocre at a small startup.” (21:21) Why she still interviews every new hire at TigerEye. LINKS Tracy Young Why I started TigerEye 5 failure points between 5 and 100M ARR  TigerEye Ralph Gootee SUBSCRIBE

It's our 150th episode! To celebrate, we brought together three thought leaders for a discussion about UX research's future. Erin and Carol are joined by Judd Antin, Dave Hora, and Christiana Lackner, who bring over 40 years of combined experience in UX research, both as practitioners and leaders. This wide-ranging conversation combines our guests' reflections on the trends that brought UX to its current moment with an analysis of what the future holds—and how we can prepare ourselves (and our teams) for it. From strategies on creating more business value for our work to tips for creating stronger cross-functional partnerships, this conversation will equip you with practical steps to future-proof your research practice.Episode Highlights09:28 - The evolution of the UX research industry15:48 - Adapting UX methods for team dynamics21:56 - Balancing our focus between the business and the user30:45 - The role of UX research in fostering shared understanding 41:18 - Planning strategically and anticipating team needs47:27 - The promise of AI for user experience professionalsAbout Our GuestsJudd Antin is an executive coach, consultant, advisor, writer, and teacher, leveraging his 15 years of experience as a research, design, and product executive at top companies (Meta, Airbnb) and his PhD in Social Psychology & Information Systems from UC Berkeley to help individuals and organizations achieve their goals and overcome their challenges.Dave Hora is the founder of Dave's Research Co. where he helps product teams drive critical initiatives with the right mix of data, insight, and common sense. He began professional research work in 2011, eventually starting the practice as the first research hire at six companies, including PlanGrid and Instacart.Christiana Lackner is a UX research leader and dot connector. She's building research maturity within organizations so that teams involve the right people, ask the right questions, and act on the answers.More Resources on the Future of UX ResearchThe role AI will play in the future of UXRConnecting UX research to business revenueThe 2023 State of User Research Report

In this episode of The Optimal Path, Ash Oliver discusses the future of user research with expert Dave Hora. From his beginnings in research back in 2011 to his key roles at companies like Plangrid and Instacart, Dave has been at the forefront of driving innovation through research. Now, he's here to share his thoughts on what's next for user research—discussing the growing demand for user insights, how to integrate research practices throughout the product lifecycle, and the opportunities of AI tools.Tune in to uncover how we can seize the moment and define what's next. About Dave:Dave Hora is the founder of Dave's Research Co., where he helps product leaders launch new product lines with the right mix of data, insight, and common sense. He began professional research work in 2011, eventually starting the practice as the first research hire at six companies, including PlanGrid and Instacart. He now works with companies across the globe and writes extensively on the topic of research and its co-evolution with the product practice. Connect with Dave:You can connect with Dave on LinkedIn Resources:The Future of User Research Report by MazeUser Research and Its Inevitable Evolution by Dave HoraWhither UX Research? by Peter MerholzThe UX Research Reckoning is Here by Judd AntinEmpathy: The importance of how we speak about ourselves, Maze Disco Conf presentation by Kyle OsborneThe next frontier for research: Building organizations that learn by Behzod SirjaniJust Enough Research by Erika HallBad research doesn't stink by Carl Pearson, PhDThe Mistake Almost Everyone Makes When Doing User Research by Behzod SirjaniFostering a culture of organizational learning with Roy Opata OlendeThe Democratization of User Research is a Red Herring by Peter MerholzThe Nature of Order by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. AlexanderA Pattern Language by Christopher AlexanderInterviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal Follow Maze on Social Media:X: @mazedesignHQInstagram: @mazedesignHQLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazedesignTo get notified when new episodes come out, subscribe at maze.co/podcast.See you next time!

This week, Tracy Young launched her second startup, TigerEye, from stealth mode. After selling PlanGrid to Autodesk for $875 million and working with YC for a couple of years, Tracy and her husband/co-founder decided to build the software they wished they'd had while building PlanGrid. In our conversation, Tracy unmasks her vision for TigerEye and shares everything she learned as a first time CEO that she's bringing into her second company.(00:00) Intro(01:39) The Shift in Market Dynamics and PlanGrid's Response(07:07) The Importance of Addressing Multiple Stakeholders in Product Development(09:08) From PlanGrid to TigerEye: Tracy Young's New Venture(11:39) The Significance of Organizational Structure and Team Dynamics(15:03) The Evolution of Sales Strategy and Team Structure(17:28) The Decision to Sell PlanGrid and Its Aftermath(24:17) The Genesis of TigerEye and Its Mission(31:09) Cultivating a Purposeful Company Culture at TigerEye(39:29) Recruitment Strategies and the Value of Reference Calls(45:42) Product Development Insights and Market Focus(49:39) The Importance of Customer Tracking for Startups(49:57) The Challenges of Scaling with CRM and ERP Systems(51:55) Navigating the Tough Decisions of Firing Employees(57:08) The Journey from Construction Engineering to Tech Entrepreneurship(57:42) The Birth and Growth of PlanGrid(01:01:24) Navigating Personal and Professional Growth(01:05:50) The Emotional Journey of Losing a Co-Founder(01:17:34) From Stealth Mode to Market Impact with Tiger Eye(01:18:31) Embracing Remote Work and Building a Diverse Team(01:30:15) Reflections on Fundraising and Board Meetings(01:34:28) Finding Work-Life Balance in Startup Culture Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah ClapperMixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyExecutive Producer: Josh Machiz

The future of biosecurity and securing our environments from virus and disease. In it we cover the power of light to disinfect and protect our indoor spaces, advances in sensor technologies and data to pick up future pandemics, risk modeling for real estate operators and the insurance industry, all the way to biosecurity at our borders and protecting humans as they travel through outer space. Ben Boyer is co-founder of R-Zero Systems, who builds autonomous systems that disinfect indoor environments using UV light. Founded in response to COVID RZero has become a leader leveraging light, sensors, and data to keep our environments safe from disease — deploying their technology in hospitals, schools, offices and with the government. This year they raised over $100M from the likes of Qualcomm, Mayo Clinic and Upfront Ventures. In addition to Rzero, Ben is co-founder of Tenaya Capital, a growth stage venture firm with over $1.5B AUM backing technology companies such as Lyft, Kayak and PlanGrid amongst others. Subscribe for the latest episodes. Email me on danieldarling@focal.vcSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracy Young, CEO and Co founder of TigerEye, joins the show to talk aboutBuilding Tracy's first successful company, PlanGrid, and how the Autodesk acquisition of PlanGrid led to Tracy uncovering the opportunity for her current venture, TigerEye (launching this year in 2024!)Tracy's decision to start another company and how she evaluated her options after her time at AutoDesk.Balancing family and founder responsibilities, the efficiencies gained when time is in limited supply.Scaling beyond boundaries, and the cost v. benefit of building a team that is in-person v. remote.Heightened expectations as a second time founder, learning to listen more, and a better way to build and forecast revenue.

Tracy Young, the co-founder and CEO of TigerEye, a sales and go-to-market platform that helps leaders track and predict the future performance of their business. She was previously the co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, a construction productivity software. PlanGrid grew from 5 co-founders to 450 people and helped build over 1 million construction projects around the globe before being acquired by Autodesk in 2018 for $875 million. This episode is dedicated to the World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit organization committed to building a future in which people live in harmony with nature. Check out https://www.worldwildlife.org/ to see the work they are doing.

Chantal is a designer and design leader. She currently leads a part of the design team at Autodesk related to construction products. We talked about her early years on the internet in her parent's basement, how she went in to design, and found her role at PlanGrid. We talked about Autodesk's acquisition of PlanGrid and how they eventually merged their design teams. From there, we took a deep dive in to talking about managing teams and hiring.

My guest this month is Tracy Young, the co-founder and former CEO of PlanGrid, a productivity tool for construction companies. From going through YC and losing a co-founder to cancer, to being acquired by Autodesk for $875 million, Tracy has picked up many valuable lessons that other founders and CEOs can learn from. Our conversation unpacks these lessons, including finding (and keeping!) product-market fit, navigating startup growing pains, showing up effectively to board meetings, and managing the emotional toll of fundraising. We also speak about Tracy's new venture, TigerEye, and what she's doing differently the second time around. After having countless conversations with founders over the years, I thought I'd heard it all. Tracy proved me wrong. Her story serves as an inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs in any industry.

Adam Draper is a venture capitalist. He is the cofounder of Boost VC - where he's invested in companies like Coinbase, Amplitude and Plangrid. 0:00 Intro 1:04 Breakfast With Pops 4:02 Hot Take On Climate Change 14:31 Doing The Research 21:02 Where Do Ideas Come From? 30:51 Grow Your Imagination 34:00 Meeting With Coinbase In 2012  49:23 Advice To Creators 59:21 How Internet Changes Behavior 1:07:43 How To Get Better At People 1:13:41 Cockroach Mentality 1:17:06 Jet Pack 1:23:01 Parenting Rich Kids 1:37:13 Most Important Company? 1:41:45 Challenge Adam's Links • Book (Breakfast With Pops): https://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Pops-Venture-Capital-Handbook/dp/B0C1JHXTQF • Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamdraper • Brian Armstrong Blog Post: https://barmstrong.medium.com/the-coinbase-seed-round-pitch-deck-50c8ec91d40b • Adam Draper On Pomp Podcast (talking about NFTs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45J2I3qN7s My Links  ✉️ Newsletter: https://dannymiranda.substack.com

In this episode, we hear from Alissa Briggs, Design Leader at Autodesk. Alissa takes us on a journey from her startup experience at PlanGrid to joining Autodesk, sharing how collaborative design thinking transformed their approach to product development and customer value. What you will learn: Align marketing and product messaging for a seamless customer experience. Overcome organizational silos to scale your business through effective collaboration. Use design thinking for impactful product transformations. Harness customer-centricity to drive growth and expand business value. Gain insights into Autodesk's shift from point solutions to a holistic ecosystem. Master collaboration and governance for omnichannel customer experience excellence. 

Being a first-time female entrepreneur in a male dominated space is no easy feat, and Tracy Young's journey starting a tech company in the construction industry is truly inspiring. She co-founded PlanGrid after recognizing the inefficiencies of paper blueprints and digitized them with tablet-friendly software that streamlined construction processes. Tracy's innovative solution caught fire and drove massive organic growth for PlanGrid. As the company expanded and shifted to enterprise sales, Tracy's team developed strategic and empathetic approaches to address diverse customer needs. She also built a strong sales team, learning from experienced reps and empowering her employees. Ultimately, Autodesk acquired PlanGrid, validating both Tracy's and PlanGrid's value. Building on her success, Tracy launched TigerEye to help sales teams optimize their strategies and unlock their full potential. Tracy's story showcases the incredible achievements of women entrepreneurs in male-dominated industries, and how game changing innovation can happen anywhere in your organization. Chapters02:44 Tracy Young explains the problem PlanGrid solved in the construction industry   06:14 Tracy Young and her co-founders quit their jobs to work on PlanGrid full-time   08:21 PlanGrid starts selling to friends and receives positive feedback   10:41 PlanGrid's user base grows through word-of-mouth and virality   16:31 PlanGrid transitions to selling to enterprise customers   19:58 Challenges of selling to enterprise customers and expanding product offerings   22:18 Tracy Young discusses the importance of understanding the needs of different decision-makers   33:00 Autodesk acquires PlanGrid   38:06 Tracy Young and her husband co-found TigerEye   45:23 Tracy Young shares where to find TigerEye and connect with her  About GuestTracy Young is the co-founder of TigerEye, a software company that helps sales leaders track and predict the future performance of their sales teams. She was also the co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, a construction software company that was acquired by Autodesk. Tracy has been recognized as one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech and a Top 50 SaaS CEO by the SaaS Report.About CompanyTigerEye is a software company that helps sales leaders track and predict the future performance of their sales teams. Social Links You can learn more about and connect with Tracy Young in the links below.Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn: (99+) Tracy Young | LinkedInCheck out TigerEye's website: TigerEye — AboutYou can learn more about and connect with Alice Heiman in the links below.Connect with Alice on LinkedIn: (99+) Alice Heiman | LinkedInCheck out Alice's website: Alice Heiman - Alice Heiman

Today we're talking with the fabulous Tracy Young, one of the most successful female startup founders so far. Y Combinator funded her company, PlanGrid in the winter of 2012. PlanGrid revolutionized the construction industry by getting blueprints off paper and onto tablets. You'll hear about how they found their idea, how they lost a cofounder to cancer in the first few weeks of YC, how they sold the company for almost a billion dollars in 2018, and how she's now gone on to start a new startup called TigerEye, with her husband and PlanGrid cofounder, Ralph Gootee.

If you're on the path to building a startup, you know what it means to fail. In this week's Workshop Wednesday, Tracy Young, CEO and Co-Founder of TigerEye and PlanGrid, says that “everything is going to fail.” Young took PlanGrid from nothing to $100M ARR before passing the baton and shares the biggest lessons learned, the biggest failures, and how to navigate them.   Full video with Q&A: https://youtube.com/live/w9-lMhAyJeo   Want to join the SaaStr community? We're the

Today's episode of The Lead With Trust Show is a continuation of the Bring Women into Construction series. This time, Sue chats with Kaitlin Frank, CEO of eMOD, a safety application for construction contractors. Kaitlin has over a decade of experience leading trade crews in the field as a Superintendent in the construction industry. She envisioned and led the development of eMOD while serving as a Superintendent of an ENR Top-400 commercial general contractor. eMOD, named a 2021 Top-Product by Constructech, currently has nearly 1,000 contractors and more than 17,000 platform users. Joining a small but growing number of women CEOs in the A/E/C sector, Frank is a recognized thought leader within the construction industry, being named a Top Tech Powered Superintendent by Plangrid in 2019, a Top Woman in Construction by Constructech in 2020 and a Construction Champion: Up and Coming Leader by Construction Dive in 2021. She acts as an industry advisor to prominent technology providers and has spoken in advocacy of technology at national conferences and podcasts. Born into a construction family, Frank holds a B.S. in Architecture and an M.S. in Construction Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.During the episode, Sue and Kaitlin discuss her early desire to be an architect and the realization that sitting at a desk all day was not the path for her, and how that led to her becoming the only female construction superintendent in Boston.Kaitlin offers insights on the importance of being a role model for the next generation of women in the construction industry.They also explore Kaitlin's desire to see a construction industry where being a woman on a job site is no longer a novelty, or an anomaly - it's completely normal.Join Sue and Kaitlin for this fascinating discussion into the opportunities being created for women and how those in the industry today are paving the way to the future.If you have any questions or suggestions for Sue, feel free to reach out via email.Enjoy!What You'll Learn in this Show:Kaitlin's path into the construction industry, and where that long road began.The importance of bringing your business culture with you to any construction project.Some of the barriers Kaitlin still sees facing women in the industry.And so much more...Resources:Kaitlin's LinkedIneMOD Safety websiteSudyco websiteLead with Trust NewsletterSue's Email: suedyer@sudyco.comSign Up for Sue's Free Masterclass, No More Claims

On this episode of the Somewhat Frank Podcast, Frank Gruber (@FrankGruber) and John Guidos (@JohnGuidos) discuss the following topics and articles…   Speaking of octopus  - https://bgr.com/science/octopus-brains-are-more-alien-than-we-previously-thought/ Eggs — why are they so hot right now? https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/03/03/egg-prices-increased-70percent-over-the-last-yearheres-why-.html  Spy Balloons or Something Else? https://time.com/6255436/balloons-ufos-what-is-in-the-sky/ Trends in Startup Names https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/startup-names-trends-cool/ Scientist creates a device that cures hiccups https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientist-hiccup-cure Some tips on scaling a startup from $5M to $100M ARR from Tracy Young cofounder of PlanGrid https://tracy.posthaven.com/part-ii-the-failure-points-from-$5m-to-$100m-in-arr How leaders can open up to their teams without oversharing https://hbr.org/2019/02/how-leaders-can-open-up-to-their-teams-without-oversharing This bullet train could change the game for Las Vegas. https://abc7chicago.com/bullet-train-los-angeles-socal-to-las-vegas-brightline-west-high-speed-rail/12907290/ Speaking of living… here are the healthiest states to live in. https://www.travelandleisure.com/best-places-to-live-in-the-us-healthy-lifestyle-7152170   We also hear about our upcoming trip to Austin for SXSW 2023! We're headed down to SXSW on March 12th for a day filled with startup, ESO, and VC focused events and activities. Learn more about the event and register at: https://bit.ly/sxsw23est    Lastly, we're hosting another startup pitch event in April too. Find more here: https://soty.link/April25    ………..   As always, thank you for listening and feel free to reach out and let us know what you think at: somewhatfrank@est.us   Get updates like this in your inbox before they hit the web by subscribing to the newsletter here: https://frankgruber.me/newsletter/   

Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. For Adam, no idea is too crazy. He dreams of building an ironman suit and leads the deals in the wildest SciFi Tech investments - exoskeletons, jetpacks, rockets... Go big or go home. Adam co-founded Boost VC after his success as an Angel Investor in companies like Coinbase, Amplitude and Plangrid. In a previous life, he wanted to be a professional tennis player and has an odd affinity for Australians. He once drank an entire bottle of tabasco sauce (the big ones) in 43 seconds. He's 4th generation venture capitalist, 2-time entrepreneur, and most importantly, he's a friend :) In this episode, we talk about: - Adam's story and how he started a company with his college friend & ended up failing - Investing in Bitcoin & crypto startups like coinbase at the very early stages - Launching BoostVC as an accelerator 10 years back to do that at scale - About his recent tweet that caused an uproar among investors - Seeding markets, not just companies - Being pitched at awkward places ..and a lot more BoostVC website: boost.vc Follow Adam on Twitter: twitter.com/adamdraper Hosted by: twitter.com/choubeysahab Full episode blog- https://vc10x.com/boostvc-adam-draper

“I don't think you can over-network. I think it is very much a club, and that's good and bad, but there's a lot of flow of information that happens amongst friends. And so to the extent you can build a network of people to share information, I think you're at an advantage to others.” – Ben Boyer  Ben Boyer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of R-Zero, which designs hospital-grade disinfection solutions utilizing UV-C light. Ben is also Managing Director at Tenaya Capital, a leading early-growth stage venture capital firm. He has served on the board of numerous companies, including Smartling, TruSignal, and PlanGrid. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/ben-boyer-r-zero-playbook-show-notes Topics discussed with Ben Boyer 00:01:37 – Ben's start in venture capital 00:08:04 – Transitioning from the public market to venture capital 00:16:53 – Working with Chinese companies 00:21:25 – Advice for new venture capitalists 00:22:40 – Recommended books 00:24:58 – Defining success Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join host Todd and guest Sameer Merchant as they discuss the recent developments and “skyrocketing” tech adoption within Autodesk, how the industry has been reinventing itself over the years, the advent of Autodesk Bridge and how it relates to current workflows and software, and what sustainability will look like in the future of construction. Sameer Merchant is the Head of Product Development for Autodesk Construction Solutions. He leads product development and delivery efforts for Autodesk's site construction and preconstruction product portfolio, which includes BIM 360 and PlanGrid. Sameer joined Autodesk with the acquisition of PlanGrid, where he was vice president of engineering. Prior to joining PlanGrid, Sameer co-founded and was CTO at AdMarvel, a mobile advertising platform acquired by Opera Software in 2010. While at Opera, Merchant was Vice President of Mobile Commerce, where he started and grew the company's mobile and data services businesses, managing a global team of more than 400 employees. Merchant began his career at VeriSign, setting up and leading engineering teams across three countries for several business units, including Public Key Infrastructure, Payment Services and Telecommunication Services. He and his team built massively scaled products that were used by Fortune 500 customers and partners including Adobe, Netscape and Microsoft.   TODD-TAKES One of my mantra's this year is down with silos. I was excited when I heard about Autodesk's Bridge announcement because it plays right into my mantra. Making sure our technology and data points are connected and flowing seamlessly is mission critical into for us to create growth at scale. The illustration of the wave building momentum Sameer used when describing the tipping point when innovation becomes practical is a great one. Don't be one of those people that realizes the wave has broken and passed them by without taking any action to ride the wave. There is a lot of innovative workflows and technologies in construction today. Be intentional to look at them and assess what makes the most sense for you. I agree with Sameer that “we owe it to each other” to streamline processes, reduce waste and drive to a more lean and sustainable construction industry. It will take all of us coming together to make strides. Connected data is one of the major lynchpins in this endeavor.

“I don't think you can over-network. I think it is very much a club, and that's good and bad, but there's a lot of flow of information that happens amongst friends. And so to the extent you can build a network of people to share information, I think you're at an advantage to others.” – Ben Boyer  Ben Boyer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of R-Zero, which designs hospital-grade disinfection solutions utilizing UV-C light. Ben is also Managing Director at Tenaya Capital, a leading early-growth stage venture capital firm. He has served on the board of numerous companies, including Smartling, TruSignal, and PlanGrid. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/ben-boyer-r-zero-playbook-show-notes Topics discussed with Ben Boyer 00:01:37 – Ben's start in venture capital 00:08:04 – Transitioning from the public market to venture capital 00:16:53 – Working with Chinese companies 00:21:25 – Advice for new venture capitalists 00:22:40 – Recommended books 00:24:58 – Defining success Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Every single one of our products has a very clear aesthetic that we care about. Our goal is to build things that people want to be around.” – Ben Boyer Ben Boyer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of R-Zero, which designs hospital-grade disinfection solutions utilizing UV-C light. Ben is also Managing Director at Tenaya Capital, a leading early-growth stage venture capital firm. He has served on the board of numerous companies, including Smartling, TruSignal, and PlanGrid. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/r-zero-pioneering-with-100-year-old-technology-ben-boyer-spotlight-show-notes Topics discussed with Ben Boyer 00:02:24 – Why R-Zero was created 00:13:36 – The perfect time for UVC technology 00:16:13 – The challenges of selling in healthcare vs. schools 00:18:37 – Lab data vs. clinical data 00:21:13 – The R-Zero product line 00:26:38 – Hardware and software development at R-Zero 00:29:42 – Competitive advantages in the industry 00:36:00 – Utilizing the Internet of Things 00:39:47 – The investor role vs. the operator role 0045:22 – Important milestones for R-Zero Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Hall welcomes Dr. Raymond Levitt, Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures LP. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies using breakthroughs in engineering and science, coupled with the infrastructure of the information revolution, to redefine resource productivity. They have three funds: an early-stage seed fund, an early growth fund that invests in A Rounds, and the Blackhorn Select Fund that makes larger investments of growth capital for its most successful portfolio companies.  Raymond was nominated to this year's BuiltWorlds Mavericks List in the Investor Category because, along with his partners at Blackhorn Ventures, he has become one of the most prolific investors in built environment startups. Ray and his team at Blackhorn Ventures have made at least twenty investments in an impressive array of “built environment” startups, including Agorus, ALICE, Briq, ClimateAI, CoFi, Drawboard, Dwellsy, Foresight, FutureProof, Hive Technologies, Humatics, Hyperframe, Manufacton, Modulous, Near Space Labs, Pype, QuoteToMe, Safehub, Safesite, Toggle, Ultra High Materials, and Veerum. He traces his work on digital technology applied to the built environment back to the mid-eighties when he spent a sabbatical leave from Stanford as an intern at IntelliCorp, which was then commercializing an early software platform for rapidly developing AI solutions. During that period, he collaborated with Dr. John Kunz to develop PLATFORM, the first application of AI to the management of construction and other projects. Ray serves as President of the Farmers Investment Club, a group of Stanford-linked angel investors that was an early investor in Plangrid, eSub, Kahua, Aurora Solar, and dozens of other early-stage startups. Ray advises entrepreneurs and investors and shares some of their challenges. He discusses what excites him now in the industry and how he sees it evolving. You can visit Blackhorn Ventures LP at , and via LinkedIn at . Ray can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at .  Music courtesy of .  Please subscribe, share, and leave a review.

Jim Lewis talks with Tracy Young and Ralph Gootee, co-founders of PlanGrid. PlanGrid is a software tool that digitizes construction plans and was acquired by Autodesk in 2018. They discuss their roles as visiting partners for Y Combinator, the acquisition process, and look ahead at the future of the startup world. 

On the first Y Combinator Series episode of the Customer Discovercast, we spoke to Ghalib Suleiman who is the Founder and CEO of Polytomic, a data pipeline tool that uses data automation to sync internal customer data to your business systems. Ghalib has over seven years of experience in data, analytics, and machine learning, most recently founding and running the data team at PlanGrid before founding Polytomic.Tune in to learn about how Ghalib and his cofounder successfully got into Y combinator (W'20), then pivoted their idea to land on what would become Polytomic! Now they are backed by some of the most well known investors in Silicon Valley such as Caffeinated Capital!You can watch the Customer Discovercast one Youtube by clicking here!If you want to reach Ghalib you can do so by visiting the links belowLinkedinPolyotmicPolyomic helps businesses sync internal customer data to your business systems from their databases, data warehouses, and spreadsheets. No code required.

Hacienda saca una licitación BIM digna de mencionar La licitación Reforma de un edificio de oficinas, sede de la Agencia tributaria en Málaga.Edificio de 198023.000 m²11 plantas sobre rasante y 4 bajo rasante.Sufre inundaciones recurrentes que han afectado a la estructura.Son dos licitaciones:PB y PE de refuerzo de Estructura y reforma:292.000€https://contrataciondelestado.es/wps/poc?uri=deeplink%3Adetalle_licitacion&idEvl=U%2FJ%2FYBeaQOYBPRBxZ4nJ%2Fg%3D%3DPB y PE de Instalaciones:177.000€https://contrataciondelestado.es/wps/poc?uri=deeplink%3Adetalle_licitacion&idEvl=%2FMHDqBhKUcZ7h85%2Fpmmsfw%3D%3DEn ambos caso se incluye un anexo Características del modelo BIM9 páginas.A parte del anexo, se hace mención de forma recurrente al BIM (18 veces EST y 8 MEP) en el resto del pliego. Menciones al BIM La documentación gráfica del proyecto básico que se detalla a continuación se obtendrá, con carácter general, a partir del modelo/s BIM que desarrolle el adjudicatario con el grado de definición definido en el plan de ejecución BIM aprobado al inicio de la prestación. Se entregarán, además de los planos que integren el proyecto, el archivo *.RVT que incluya el modelo del que se hayan obtenido todos los planos solicitadosPlanos del PB. Los planos de detalles constructivos o de otra naturaleza necesarios para la correcta ejecución de la obra se elaborarán, dentro del archivo *.RVT que defina el modelo/s, en 2D.Frase extra en el caso de planos del PE. Editables en:Word 2016 para documentos.Presto 2019 para el presupuesto.AutoCAD 2019 para planos que se generen a partir del modelo/s BIM."Los entregables de la documentación BIM será la prevista en el BEP definido en el anexo 2 del pliego y será editable por el programa REVIT versión 2019 y/o el software que se establezca en el programa de ejecución BIM (BEP)."Todo en papel:"El proyecto encuadernado en carpetas de cuatro anillas y los planos en bolsa individual y tantas carpetas como se precise. Las carpetas de los proyectos se agruparán en uno o varios cajones rígidos y con asa." Las mediciones se desarrollarán en una columna en caso de lineales, dos columnas en caso de superficies y 3 columnas en caso de cubicaciones. Adicionalmente, se podrán incluir referencias concretas a elementos de medición contemplados en el modelo BIM. En todo caso, no serán admisibles referencias a superficies medidas con polilíneas en los planos de .dwg o similares, salvo elementos curvos o similares. Anexo BIM Usos: (explicando qué son y por qué son importantes)VisualizaciónCoordinación en 3DDocumentación en 2DMedicionesVisualización de datosInfografíasRecorridos virtualesValidación de normativaSimulación ConstructivaAnálisis y simulaciones (Energético, lumínico, de evacuación...)Pre-BEP: Cada licitador debe definir:Roles de los agentes intervinientesAlcance o grado de definición del modeloMínimo LOD300 o más si es necesario para documentación o medicionesBIMFORUM 2018Propuesta de complimiento de los usosEstrategia de gestión documental"Se pondrá a disposición del DT un visor de modelos BIM en formato RVT que permita el marcado y la generación de BCF para mejorar la comunicación con los agentes BIM."BEP: en los 15 días posteriores al contrato.UsosAlcance o grado de definiciónEntregablesRRHHHW/SWHW: "El que requerirá el cliente para la visualización de entregables BIM, que deberá de adaptarse en todo caso a las características de los equipos informáticos disponibles en ese momento por el DT."SW: "...En lo que afecte al desempeño de las funciones del DT, sólo se podrán proponer el uso de software disponible por la AEAT."Organización del modeloProyecto-parcela-edificio-plantas"...En todo caso, se observará la utilización de formatos “.rvt” para transmitir la información entre disciplinas...".Sistema de clasificaciónNomenclatura de archivosmatriz de interferenciasConfiguración de plantilla Resumen Hecha por distintas personas a la vez, con muchos cambios hasta la versión definitiva (versión 10).A veces piden RVT, a veces "preferentemente, a veces lo que diga el BEP, pero la entrega en RVT o similar teniendo en cuenta que deberá ser con el software que tenga la agencia tributaria...058 AAPP059 AAPP 2"Asistencia técnica"El piden un BEP al adjudicatario, para que lo haga él sólo, pero hay dos licitaciones independientes.El tema de los LOD para que no avanza.Por si acaso, todo en DWG, y en papel. Opinión Hace 8 años, está licitación habría sido casi un ejemplo a seguir.Con algunas contradicciones a pulir, el tema formatos concretos...Hoy en día, y siendo la administración pública con más recursos tecnológicos a nivel nacional, es muy deficiente.Más allá de la clásica polémica sobre pedir formatos concretos.Entiendo que las AAPP tiene recursos limitados.Pero tienen recursos humanos de sobra.Coste típico HW/SW vs RRHH: 1 a 10.Con reducir la plantilla un 10%, tendrían dinero de sobra para formación y HW/SW. Patrocinador: BIMLEARNING Y antes de comentar la siguiente noticia, el patrocinador: BIMLEARNING. Y después de un mes hablando de las bondades de BIMLEARNING como consultora BIM, de su sistema propio alineado con la ISO19650, de sus desarrollos propios como Nomenclator para ayudar a planificar, automatizar y chequear protocolos y estándares, creo que me he dejado lo más importante para el final. Miguel y Jose. No sólo tienen mucha experiencia como formadores y cómo escritores, sino también como arquitectos y lo que es más extraordinario, como jefes de obra. Pocas personas hay en España que hayan vivido la obra, sean expertos en BIM, y sepan enseñarlo. Y esta es una de las claves de que tengan un enfoque tan práctico y realista. En cualquier caso, si antes de contratar una consultoría quieres conocerlos en persona y comprobar todo esto, recuerda que tienes un 10% descuento en su MASTER BIM MANAGEMENT y en su curso de Gestión BIM según la ISO 19650. Código BIMLEVEL, en el enlace que te dejo en las notas del programa. https://bimlearning.es/cursos-revit/bim-management-online/ https://bimlearning.es/cursos-revit/curso-de-gestion-bim-segun-iso-19650-online/ Autodesk y Bentley salen de compras Autodesk Mil millones de €.Innovyzehttps://www.innovyze.com/en-usEmpresa de EEUU con 35 añosEspecializados en software de diseño y análisis hidráulico:Diseño y análisis de drenajePluviales e inundacionesRedes de distribución de aguaIntegración con ArcGISPlataforma online de gestión de operacionesGestión de activos...La compra más cara de la historia de Autodesk.La segunda fue Plangrid por 760 millones de €.Refuerza la presencia en infraestructuras de Autodesk.Autodesk aquí tiene la pareja Civil3D-Infraworks.Bentley tiene decenas de software especializados para infraestructura.También una nube de Gemelo digital para redes de distribución. Autodesk Tándem en beta pública 077 Noticias Noviembre 2020https://feedback.autodesk.com/key/Tandem-apply Bentley Los de Microstation, el .dgn, AecoSIM (ahora OpenBuilding), compraron Synchro en 2018...Salieron a bolsa en septiembre del año pasado, y ahora sus acciones valen el doble.2 compras:E7https://e7.site/Empresa Australiana pequeña y joven (2009)Software online y móvil para gestión de obra:Costes y certificaciónPlanificaciónSeguimiento de tareasFotografíaLibro de ordenesinformesetcNo se sabe cuánto ha costado.La idea es integrarlo con Synchro"Solución integral de gemelo digital de construcción 4D"Compiten con Autodesk Construction Cloud, aprovechando el tirón de Synchro.Seequent890 millones de €https://www.seequent.com/Empresa Neozelandesa fundada en el 2000.Especialista en software de análisis y modelado geológico y geofísico.Modelado subterráneo, minas, túneles, cimentaciones...Entorno común de datos también enfocado a los "gemelos digitales" del subsuelo. Noticias rápidas UNE publica varias cosas:Informe sobre la estandarización del BIMhttps://www.une.org/la-asociacion/sala-de-informacion-une/noticias/apoyo-de-las-normas-a-bimEstá bien para conocer todas las normas relacionadas con BIM.Un libro que explica cómo utilizar la norma ISO 19650:Los proyectos de construcción con BIM según ISO 19650.De Vicente González Pachón, director de edificación en TYPSA.https://www.aenor.com/normas-y-libros/buscar-libros/detalle?c=f1dea91b-9676-eb11-a812-000d3a4c17fbSe crea la Red Global BIM:https://www.globalbim.org/"Nuestra plataforma digital tiene como objetivo facilitar el intercambio de conocimientos sobre los procesos BIM, permitir la colaboración internacional y dar a conocer la investigación innovadora y los desarrollos tecnológicos."Organismos públicos:EU BIM Task Group, UK's Prosperity Funded Global Infrastructure ProgramCentre for Digital Built Britain Singapore's Regional BIM SymposiumsBanco Interamericano de DesarrolloRed BIM Gob LatamDe momento podemos encontrar muchas (57) guías, estrategias, comunicaciones, etc de todos los miembros. ¿Quieres escuchar otro episodio? Los tienes todos en la sección de Podcast de esta web. AVISO: Este post es sólo un apoyo al audio del podcast. Leerlo de forma independiente podría llevar a conclusiones incompletas o incluso opuestas a las que se quieren transmitir.

Episodio monotemático con las noticias que nos dejó en AU2020.Hay otras noticias interesantes, que tocaremos más adelante:Salida de VectorWorks 2021: https://www.vectorworks.net/en-GB/2021Evento online de ACCA Software: https://www.accasoftware.com/es/convention-acca-2020Evento online de Bricssys: https://summit.bricsys.com/... Las clases siguen ahí Autodesk University es una web 365 días al año.5652 clases desde 2011 hasta 2019:https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/au-online?762 clases del 2020:https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/Mirar los powerpoint como forma rápida de comprobar si es interesante.Algunas que me gustaron:Coordinación de modelos: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Future-Model-Coordination-more-Clash-Detection-2020Coordenadas en Revit: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Shared-Coordinates-Because-After-All-These-Years-I-Still-Dont-Get-It-2020Model checker en BIM360: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Automatic-Checking-Your-BIM-360-Models-202010 ejemplos de herramientas que usan Forge: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/10-Useful-and-Cool-Forge-Powered-Applications-2020 Otro anuncios "secundarios" Autodesk Tandem (BETA)Visor de BIM360 con posibilidad de apagar y encender modelos.En el panel de propiedades de cada objeto, tienes propiedades de ejemplar, de tipo y ahora del gemelo con datos reales (IoT).Puedes editar los valores de los parámetros en la paleta de propiedades en el visor.Crear tus propias vistas.Consorcio de gemelos digitales, socio fundador.https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Constructwin-Delivering-Value-BIM-Owners-Digital-Twin-2020Amy Mark ficha por Autodesk como Jefa de Estrategia y Evangelización de Construcción Industrializada.Experta en industrialización DfMA (Diseño para fabricación y ensamblaje.Ceó su propia empresa de casas prefabricadas ideando un sistemas que luego han copiado muchas empresas en EEUU.https://constructionblog.autodesk.com/queen-of-prefab-amy-marks-autodesk/Autodesk compra Spacemaker por 200 M €.https://www.spacemakerai.com/Empresa noruega con 110 empleados, experta en IA.Su herramienta de mismo nombre es una plataforma web para diseño y análisis de encajes de edificios en terrenos.Lo que la diferencia de otras solucione similares como Testfit, es que puedes hacer análisis de vientos, sol, ruido, vistas...Posiblemente la única gran noticia para arquitectos de todo el AU2020. 1. Discurso muy "Open" Estamos comprometidos a hacer que sus datos sean más interoperables, más accesibles y más abiertos. Tres veces se dijo esta frase en la keynote general. Una de ellas para cerrar la sesión.También se dijo una vez en la sesión de AEC. También en las otras industrias Diseño y fabricación (refiriéndose a Forge for manufacturing):Para que esta tecnología realmente despegue y beneficie a los sectores de AEC y la fabricación, creo que realmente debe ser abierta. Y es por eso queremos ayudar a guiar esta importante tecnología hacia los estándares abiertos, que brindarán consistencia, seguridad e interoperabilidad a todas las industrias y todas las plataformas.Medios y entretenimiento:Los estándares abiertos son los que nos ayudarán a conectar sus procesos, automatizar los flujos de trabajo y ofrecerles información valiosa.Producción a la nube con Shotgun, en torno a estándares abiertos.Descripción universal de escena (USD) de Pixar a Maya.Es el estándar que usa Nvidia Omniverse para conectar con Revit, 3D Max...En otras ocasiones hablaban de estándares abiertos casi por compromiso, por da buena imagen (somos miembros de BLA, tenemos certificado IFC de bla bla.Pero esta vez se ve el enfoque al menos interoperable en las líneas de desarrollo. 2. La madurez en la nube Lo que tenemos a día de hoy BIM360 DocsBIM360 DesignCollaboration for Revit (C4R)Módulo Design, para gestionar las entregas, revisarlas, visor con capacidades de federación en vivo, calendario con las entregas, etc.BIM360 CoordinateMódulo de detección de interferencias automatizadas con conexión con Navisworks y Revit (en beta) para las incidencias.BIM360 BuildMódulo de project Management.RFIs, submittal y Reuniones.Módulo de Field ManagementCkecklist y diarios de obra.Módulo de Cost Management.Presupuestos, ingresos, gastos, órdenes de cambio, etc.Módulo de ActivosPlangrid.Comprada y competencia directa con Docs y Build. Cambios y novedades BIM360 Docs se queda como está.Aparece un nuevo Autodesk Docs incluido en la AEC Collection y que no va a poder comprarse por separado. Diferencias con BIM360 Docs:Cambios estéticos en la interfaz. Mejora algo en usabilidad.Parece que desaparecen los conjuntos y se ha repensando la parte de planos.Mejoras en imágenes y videos.Tengo dudas de que vaya a incluir la herramienta de incidencias, que también ha cambiado mucho.BIM360 Design y Coordinate se fusionan en un único paquete:BIM Collaborate: no incluye C4R (Ni civil, plant...).BIMCollaborate PRO: si incluye C4R.BIM360 Build se queda igual (ahora se llama Autodesk Build) pero es el que más mejoras trae:Mejoras en los flujos de trabajo de incidencias, RFI, ordenes de cambios, etc.La aplicación para móviles/tabletas ahora pasar a ser la de Plangrid.Todos estos paquetes comerciales permiten usar tus propias licencias en proyectos de otros.Nueva interfaz: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Field-and-Project-Management-Construction-Cloud-2020 Autodesk Quantify https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Future-Quantifica notion-Construction-Cloud-2020Creas una estructura de capítulos en la configuración del proyecto.En el visor online tenemos 2 nuevos iconos:"Takeoff" (hagan sus apuestas con la traducción):Puedes medir usando 4 herramientas: Dibujar área.Dibujar línea.Colocar punto (unidades)Seleccionar objeto 3D.Puedes crear tipos de mediciones para no tener que configurar cada área y cada línea que dibujas.Inventario: despliega una ventana con toda la estructura de capítulos y puedes ver todas las líneas de medición.Si haces clic, te muestra en el visor los elementos.Permite agregar fórmulas para modificar la medida.No hay reglas, se asigna todo a mano o con seleccionar similar.Te permite asignar un mismo elemento a dos partidas (no más), pero aparentemente con la misma medida. ¿Qué pasa con Assemble? La respuesta oficial de Autodesk es que son soluciones diferentes:Quantify está dirigida a usuarios que quieran hacer mediciones en 2D y 3D de forma rápida en una única solución.Assemble es una poderosa herramienta BIM para extraer metadatos de los modelos 3D. Opinión Autodesk llevaba años trabajando en una plataforma unificada, pero salió de compras (Plangrid, Assemble, Building Conected, Pype...) y tuvo que empezar de nuevo.En 2019 nos lo prometieron.En 2020 han conseguido unificar las dos más importantes y complejas: BIM360 y Plangrid.Plangrid ha sido la compra más cara de la historia de Autodesk (760 M €, cuando la segunda más cara fueron 230 M €)El punto más fuerte de Plangrid era la app móvil. Han dejado el core de BIM360 para la web y el core de Plangrid para móviles y tabletas.El siguiente en integrarse seguramente será Building Conected.En el caso de Assemble parece que es más fácil usar a los empleados para rehacerlo desde cero que intentar integrarlo, y el resultado es Quantify, aunque está muy verde todavía. Gran movimiento win-win Coordinate es un gran módulo que casi nadie estaba dispuesto a comprar por separado.Ahora la oferta tiene más sentido: los dos módulos relacionados con la fase de proyecto, juntos. La única duda es el precio, Autodesk suele ser de las que a más valor más precio.Seguramente se compense con que ahora las licencias no están ligadas a un HUB en concreto.Autodesk Docs incluido en la AEC elimina la barrera de entrada que supone los 300-500€/usario/año (entre 1 y 10 usuarios).Y ojo, es muy probable que mantengan el espacio ilimitado.Todos los que tengan una aec collection y estén pagando por un dropbox/google drive/Onedrive, ahora pueden ahorrarse ese coste, y en una plataforma pensada para nuestra industria.Un usuario de Docs, es un potencial usuario de BIM Collaborate.Obliga a la competencia a pasarse a un modelo "freemium".A clientes con una AEC Collection.Aparentemente, los usuarios que no tenemos una AEC Collection pero que no necesitamos/queremos pagar por Coordinate ni un Design (con los precios actuales sería pagar más del doble), nos tenemos que quedar en BIM360.De momento no pasa nada, pero en menos de un año seguramente no podrás comprar licencias nuevas (sólo renovar) y tampoco llegarán novedades. 3. El futuro de AEC se está desarrollando en D&M Las NO novedades en el escritorio Sólo automatización de gradientes de terreno para Civil 3D.Nada de Infraworks, Formit, Recap...Nada para Revit.Nuevo formato del roadmap basado en un tablero de Trello:https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-public-roadmapPequeñas mejoras de lo que ya existe.Revit es un software maduro al que lo le esperan grandes cambios ni mejoras internos.Han prometido más inversión para Revit, y en concreto Arquitectura, pero no han mostrado nada de nada.También hay promesas de mejorar en interoperabilidad.En los últimos 5 años Revit ha mantenido el tipo gracias a Dynamo.Están llevando Dynamo al resto de software para repetir la jugada.Parece que en los próximos 5 años, la idea es mantener el tipo con el diseño generativo. Y también repetir la jugada llevándolo al resto de software.https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Generative-Design-Revit-2020Mejoras desde fuera (Inventor):Siguen mejorando la integración entre Inventor y Revit.Ahora Inventor exporta a elementos nativos de Revit.Están trabajando para poder crear familias nativas de Revit desde Inventor.Nada en cuanto a un sustituto de Revit a medio plazo (Project Quantum/Plasma). FORGE y Fusion, el futuro de AEC ¿Forge y Fusion? ForgeConjunto de herramientas web y APIs para desarrolladores. Se lanzó en 2015.La api más usanda es el visor online. Roadmap del Visor:Nueva versión del formato SVF (SVF2) más rápido en modelos grandes.Poder ver geometría de armaduras.Poder ver nubes de puntos (no está claro del todo).Soporte para los formatos abiertos:glTF (el que usa CYPE, por ejemplo)USDZ, MaterialX, etc.Todas las plataformas cloud de Autodesk están basadas en Forge.Fusion 360Software de diseño industrial (Tipo Inventor o Solidworks) que Autodesk lanzó en 2013.Aunque lo tienes que instalar, la mayoría de las tareas se ejecutan en la nube.Basado en Forge.Los archivos también están en la nube.No necesitas un PC muy potente.Está para PC y MAC.Tiene una versión gratuita y la versión de pago son 500€/año.645K usuarios al mes, y más de 100k suscriptores de pago. Anuncios clave para el futuro de AEC Trabajo colaborativo en tiempo real en Fusion.Datos en la nube accesibles a software de terceros gracias a las apis de Forge. Forge for manufacturing.Usar los datos en software de terceros.En el roadmap: software de terceros pueden editar (no sólo consultar) datos del proyecto de Fusion.Visión BIM etapa 3:Trabajo basado en bases de datos online.Software de terceros pueden acceder y editar esas bases de datos gracias al intermediario que es Forge con sus apis.https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Forge-Road-Map-Fusion-360-Forge-Data-2020 Opinión Por primera vez tengo clara la estrategia de Autodesk para el BIM level 3 y el sustituto de Revit.Esto es lo que creo ha pasado en estos años y lo que va a pasar en los próximos:Autodesk llevaba trabajando en Forge desde 2010, y había lanzado su primer software de diseño en la nube (Fusion) en 2013.Reino Unido publicó si estrategía de lo que debería ser el nivel 3 en 2015.En 2016, Autodesk presenta un concepto alineado con este nivel 3, el famoso Project Quantum.Pasan dos años en los que no avanzan mucho porque están a tope con las plataformas cloud de nueva generación. Pero en 2018 recuerdan el concepto, ahora Project Plasma.En estos dos últimos años han decidido que digitalizar la obra es prioritario sobre diseñar en la nube.Han repartido esfuerzos:En el mundo de la fabricación desarrollamos tecnología de diseño en la nube enfocada al Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).En el mundo AEC desarrollamos tecnología enfocada en el concepto de CDE y digitalización de la obra.La jugada maestra: al estar todo basado en Forge, lo que desarrollo para un sector luego lo podré aprovechar en el otro.2021 van a seguir igual.En en AU de 2022 volverán con la idea de Quantum/plasma...En 2023 sacarán software de diseño de edificios basado en parte del desarrollo de Fusion y Forge for manufacturing.De primeras no será un sustituto de Revit, igual que Fusion no es sustituto de Inventor.Pero ese "Fusion AEC" irán ganando funcionalidades y cuota de mercado y posiblemente para 2030, haya superado a Revit. AU2020 Giro aparentemente real a la interoperabilidad y el acceso a los datos.Empezamos a tener una plataforma en la nube madura.El futuro del software AEC va a ser un "copia y pega" muy válido, d elo que ahora están empezando a conseguir en Fabricación. ¿Quieres escuchar otro episodio? Los tienes todos en la sección de Podcast de esta web. AVISO: Este post es sólo un apoyo al audio del podcast. Leerlo de forma independiente podría llevar a conclusiones incompletas o incluso opuestas a las que se quieren transmitir.

Join host Todd for an exclusive episode featuring guest Sameer Merchant, Head of Product Development for Autodesk Construction Solutions, as they unpack the new product announcements from Autodesk University – Autodesk Build, Autodesk Quantify, Autodesk BIM Collaborate and Autodesk Tandem. They also address how to bring technology to the forefront by fully leveraging data and breaking down silos, the importance of a single source of truth for construction management and how to use all the data and new product offerings to make better, smarter decisions moving forward.Sameer Merchant is the Head of Product Development for Autodesk Construction Solutions. He leads product development and delivery efforts for Autodesk’s site construction and preconstruction product portfolio, which includes BIM 360 and PlanGrid. Sameer joined Autodesk with the acquisition of PlanGrid, where he was vice president of engineering. Prior to joining PlanGrid, Sameer co-founded and was CTO at AdMarvel, a mobile advertising platform acquired by Opera Software in 2010. While at Opera, Merchant was Vice President of Mobile Commerce, where he started and grew the company's mobile and data services businesses, managing a global team of more than 400 employees. Merchant began his career at VeriSign, setting up and leading engineering teams across three countries for several business units, including Public Key Infrastructure, Payment Services and Telecommunication Services. He and his team built massively scaled products that were used by Fortune 500 customers and partners including Adobe, Netscape and Microsoft.

What comes to mind when you think of field marketing? I bet you think of events...at least it was in a pre-COVID world. For years, field marketing has been partnering with sales teams in a specific region to create VIP events for key prospects. And it’s worked extremely well. Then COVID-19 happened and everything changed. So, what does field marketing look like now? Is there even still a need for it? The answer is a definite YES. In this episode, we chat with Nick Bennett, Director of Field Marketing at Logz.io. He has more than 10 years of marketing experience and previously held roles at Clari, PlanGrid, Jive Software, HPE SimpliVity, Lightower Fiber Networks, BDS Marketing, and more. We’re talking about what field marketing is in a post-COVID world, how field marketing can accelerate deal pipeline, why sales is a team sport, how field marketing and demand generation work together, and so much more.

What comes to mind when you think of field marketing? I bet you think of events...at least it was in a pre-COVID world. For years, field marketing has been partnering with sales teams in a specific region to create VIP events for key prospects. And it’s worked extremely well. Then COVID-19 happened and everything changed. So, what does field marketing look like now? Is there even still a need for it? The answer is a definite YES. In this episode, we chat with Nick Bennett, Director of Field Marketing at Logz.io. He has more than 10 years of marketing experience and previously held roles at Clari, PlanGrid, Jive Software, HPE SimpliVity, Lightower Fiber Networks, BDS Marketing, and more. We’re talking about what field marketing is in a post-COVID world, how field marketing can accelerate deal pipeline, why sales is a team sport, how field marketing and demand generation work together, and so much more.

In this episode of Brewing with BIM we discuss the importance of communication. We focus primarily on the field to office and vice versa. Being an expert at modeling doesn't mean you are an expert at construct-ability and installation. The same is true for inverse. Good communication is a great way to learn. Using platforms like BIM 360, PlanGrid, Bluebeam, etc allow the office to share updated drawings while providing tools for communication and review for the field teams to correct and educate. As always we review alcohol we are drinking and get lost on many tangents. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brewingwithbim/support

Garry Tan (@garrytan) is a designer and engineer turned early stage investor as a Managing Partner and co-founder at Initialized Capital. While recording from our coronavirus bunkers, Garry and I chatted about building the world you want to live in, how refugee ancestors has influenced his worldview, navigating the idea maze as a founder, his $200M mistake and how parenthood has changed his life. In 2019, Tan was listed at #21 on the Forbes Midas List having invested in Instacart, Coinbase, Flexport, Plangrid, Hellosign and many others. Prior to founding Initialized, Garry was a partner at Y Combinator for nearly five years where he advised and funded over 600 companies and more than a thousand founders. He was cofounder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (Top 200 Quantcast site, acquired by Twitter in 2012). Before that he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir's financial analysis product, and also designed Palantir's logo. He has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and you can find him on his weekly startup vlog on YouTube and Instagram and his videos are packed with valuable advice for entrepreneurs. Garry is incredibly talented and insightful and I think what struck me most about our conversation is how humble, thoughtful and empathetic he is. Hope you enjoy this episode with Garry Tan.

We chat with Luke Forrest about Autodesk and the story of technology adoption in the construction industry. We discuss the growth of PlanGrid and his personal career journey in both tech and construction. This is a great episode that shares insight on technology, innovation, and relationships in construction. About Autodesk & Plangrid:The company's mobile-first technology gives general contractors, subs, owners and architects access to information in real-time, enables greater collaboration and provides actionable insights. With PlanGrid, any construction team member can manage and update blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, punchlists and other information from any device. PlanGrid is used on 1.5 million projects across commercial, heavy civil and other industries in 100+ countries. With over 150 million digital blueprints on its cloud-based platform, PlanGrid is also the largest digital blueprint repository in the world. https://www.autodesk.ca/en 

Podcast 11 - Rene Descartes Join the Noob and his cohost as he talks about a bunch of stuff he doesnt know and kinda talks about Rene Descartes. Descartes is a fantastic contributer to the world of math and science. In this episode the noob classesly disrespects all of that. Most importantly he is the Father of of the Cartesian Coordinate system... in other words the way we locate eveything in the CAD world. Tips and Tricks Tip: Use lisps and APPLOAD to make life easier Trick: Purge Reg apps Alcoholic beverage of the show: Sam Adams Boston Lager Abita Cirrusly Wheat Parish Brewing Canebreak Sweet Circle Template that looks like a transformer eye Not an OSNAP game, its testing them skills. The Eyeballing Game Facebook Heptic Feeback Gloves TrustRadius Best Computer-Aided Design Autodesk Navisworks Mathmatician is actually a Group of Mathmaticians Bookathathourus - Golygon Table Sized Digitizer DraftSight Image Tracer CADnoob inkscape image to DWG Onshape File Storage Lumion Fusion 360 Future of CAD To inifinity and Beyond Tinkercad Tinkercad to Fusion 360 Procore Autodesk bought PlanGrid API in the courts Rene Descartes Cartesian Coordinate System https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/14/rene-descartes-poisoned-catholic-priest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/#NewSci http://mentalfloss.com/article/550161/facts-about-rene-descartes http://petercorke.com/wordpress/descartes-bones

Se celabra AU VEGAS 2019 El evento Un gran evento como siempre.Los chicos de Shared-Coordinates le han hecho un gran seguimiento.Uno de los iconos del evento ha sido el robot de boston dynamics que comentamos en el anterior episodio de noticias. AEC Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISx5riQnElMEsta keynote debería ser como las de Apple o Google cuando presentan un nuevo producto o servicio. Pero...Han contado lo que ya habían ido anunciando durante el 2019 como si fueran novedades. En 2017 anunciaron todas las novedades de BIM360, seis meses antes de que salieran al mercado.En 2018 la gran novedad fue el diseño generativo.En este 2019 han lanzado Autodesk Construction Cloud. Pero...Es humo del bueno, marketing total.Se han pasado los últimos 4 años unificando todo el software que tenían en la nube.Y cuando por fin lo consiguen con el nuevo BIM360, salen de compras (Plangrid, Assemble and Building Connected) y vuelta a empezar.Ahora cambian el discurso de plataforma única, a un ecosistema compuesto por las "mejores" soluciones del mercado.Nos lo cuentan como un gran avance que las están integrando, y le ponen un nombre: Construction Cloud.Project Refinery integrado en Revit (minuto 50). Novedades Revit 2020.2 https://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/2019/11/18/whats-new-in-revit-2020-2/Ya podemos ver el origen interno en Revit.Se simplifica el uso de coordenadas compartidas porque ahora el punto base de proyecto ya no tiene clip. Se abre oficialmente Revit.io (Design Automation API) poder crear, editar y consultar archivos de revit, sin tener una sesión de revit ejecutándose, y además en la nube.Dynamo 2.3, mejoras visuales en tablas, paneles eléctricos, uniones metálicas y modo vuelo (como el de Navisworks). Grupos de usuarios en el Autodesk Knowledge Network AKN es una mezcla entre foros, blogs y ayuda online, todo oficial de Autodesk.Ahora incorporan una sección: los grupos de usuarios. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/groupsRequisitos:Tener una opción de membresía gratuita y pública.Estar activos. Se realizarán revisiones anuales para confirmar la actividad del grupo.Tener un organizador de grupo claro y principal.Hablar de cosas relacionas con los productos de Autodesk, (y de la competencia de Autodesk), y temas relacionados con el sector.Beneficios:Los líderes de grupo pueden solicitar recursos para ayudar a llevar a cabo sus eventos y los de su grupo. Esto puede incluir equipos, artículos de marca Autodesk, alimentos y más.Ayudan a organizar eventos en las oficinas de Autodesk, en los Centros de Tecnología de Autodesk o en las oficinas de WeWork.Autodesk te paga una cuenta pro de Meetup. (30€ al mes). Rhino se integra con Revit ¿Qué es Rhino? Modelador 3D especializado en curvas NURBS.NURBS (B-splines racionales no uniformes). Spline de autocad.Geometría compleja, con muchas curvas, diseños orgánicos, etc.Diseño de barcos, prótesis médicas, joyas...Edificios singulares, topografía, fachadas curvas...Tiene un módulo llamado Grashopper, para diseño paramétrico, visualmente es muy parecido a Dynamo.Realmente dynamo copia la idea de Grashopper.Actualmente van por la versión 6, cuesta 1000€ pago único y sus librerías son abiertas, lo que lo hace compatible con cientos de programas.Todo esto hace que sea muy usado. Rhino Inside https://www.rhino3d.com/inside En la versión en desarrollo (futuro Rhino 7) han incluido una nueva tecnología.Rhino.Inside® es un proyecto Rhino WIP de código abierto que permite que Rhino y Grasshopper se ejecuten dentro de otras aplicaciones de Windows de 64 bits como Revit, AutoCAD, etc. https://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/inside/revit/homepage Enviar geometría de Revit a Rhino y Rhino a Revit.Editar geometría y parámetros de Revit con Grashopper. La consejería de fomento de Andalucía empieza a implementar el BIM http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/portavoz/infraestructuras/147508/consejodegobierno/fomentoinfraestructurasyordenaciondelterritorio/marifrancarazo/metodologiabim/reclamacionesjudiciales/sobrecostes/retrasos/metros/AVRA La Consejería de Fomento, Infraestructuras y Ordenación del Territorio ha presentado internamente un informe sobre sus avances con BIM.Se ha organizado un equipo de trabajo asesorado por una empresa externa, para la implantación BIM.Formación a los técnicos."Espacio común de datos compartidos único"."Servidor de licencias comerciales".Objetivo: 2021 trabajar en BIM de forma normal.Requisitos BIM en:Obras para cubrir las cocheras del Metro de Granada.Rehabilitación y ampliación del Ayuntamiento de Fuentes de Andalucía (Sevilla).Redacción del proyecto de un nuevo acceso a Vícar (Almería). Obra de mejora de la seguridad vial en la carretera Almonte-El Rocío (A-483) en Huelva. Ampliaciones de los metros de Sevilla, Granada y Málaga. NATSPEC publica el 6º Informe Global sobre educación BIM https://www.icis.org/publications/papers/?mc_cid=558dfbeaef&mc_eid=0da5c2d720 Es de mayo, pero lo he descubierto hace poco.NATSPEC es un organismo australiano de estándares para nuestro sector.LLevan desde 2014 realizando un informe sobre el estado del BIM en las instituciones educativas de 17 países:AustraliaCanadáChileChinaRepública ChecaFinlandiaHong KongJapónHolandaNueva ZelandaNoruegaSingapourSudáfricaSueciaSuizaReino UnidoEstados UnidosConclusiones del informe:En la mayoría de países hay opciones de formación BIM en los niveles de universidad y formación profesional.A diferencia de otros años, el número de cursos se ha estancado en cantidad. A excepción de Chile y Hong Kong.Y que esto puede ser síntoma de cierta saturación de oferta.En muchos países, incorporar el BIM en los planes de estudios es un reto para los profesores:Falta de conocimiento/ habilidades de los profesores.Falta de recursos.Añadir BIM a un temario ya abarrotado.Resistencia al cambio.La mayoría de la formación se sigue centrando en software.Pero poco a poco va aumentando la formación en conceptos.Recomiendo su lectura detallada a todos lo que estén vinculados a la formación reglada. ¿Quieres escuchar otro episodio? Los tienes todos en la sección de Podcast de esta web. AVISO: Este post es sólo un apoyo al audio del podcast. Leerlo de forma independiente podría llevar a conclusiones incompletas o incluso opuestas a las que se quieren transmitir.

Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money Fieldwire, which makes task management software for construction teams on commercial projects so things don't fall through the figurative (or literal) cracks, has raised $33.5 million in Series C funding. Menlo Ventures led the round, joined by Brick & Mortar Ventures, Hilti Group and Formation 8. It isn't a huge amount of money.

We all know that running a profitable construction project requires a strong and coordinated team effort. What many people forget, though, is that it is impossible for teams to work well together without a clear and efficient line of communication. You can hold all the preliminary meetings in the world to solidify your plan, but it won't matter when labor is on the jobsite. Problems arise, unforeseen obstacles are met, and when this happens those back in the office need a way to communicate with those on the field in a manageable format.  Of all the ways we currently communicate with each other, there is no doubt text messaging is most popular for ad hoc, right then and there messages from the jobsite, due to its simplicity. But are there limitations on the ability to organize text messages into coherent sets of information on the project?  FieldChat thinks there is, and in response has developed the ultimate text messaging platform for construction. FieldChat makes it easy to manage text messages across your construction team to keep everyone on the same page - reducing mistakes and wasted time. All project text messages and photos are automatically organized, saved and searchable by project.  You can set up your team to collaborate, share information and capture jobsite activity from any device instantly. FieldChat also integrates with construction management software like Procore and PlanGrid, and takes minutes to set up. Join Devon as he goes on a journey with Katrin Lepik and Stephen Smith, co-founders of FieldChat, to understand the story of why they chose texting as the medium to apply new technology to in construction, what their product development process was like, and how they plan to evolve construction by consolidating all project communication into one integrated and easy-to-use platform. Sign up for free! https://www.fieldchat.com/aoc

Tracy Young is a cofounder and the CEO of PlanGrid. PlanGrid makes mobile construction productivity software. They were acquired by Autodesk in 2018 and were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch.Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC.You can find Tracy on Twitter @Tracy_Young and Kat is @KatManalac.The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/***Topics00:00 - Intro00:46 - How Tracy got into the construction industry2:51 - What convinced Tracy and her cofounders to build PlanGrid?3:31 - Finding a technical cofounder6:26 - Tracy still sees herself as an engineer7:16 - PlanGrid's MVP and their first customers11:56 - Their sales process13:46 - Product breakthroughs17:21 - Not firing fast enough20:31 - What does she look for when hiring someone?26:01 - Tim Cook's closing statement at WWDC28:46 - Fredi Fernández asks - Does Tracy track wellness levels of the team?29:26 - At what point did Tracy hire an office manager?30:16 - How does Tracy take care of herself?31:46 - Founding a company with a partner33:31 - Managing a company as a new parent35:46 - Seyed Rasoul Jabari asks - What's your big plan to go from 1.5 to 10 million projects?36:46 - Holly asks - What has been your single largest influence in helping you scale?38:06 - Why do some executives not work out?38:56 - What skills did Tracy have to work on when scaling?42:41 - What do a lot of startups get wrong?46:21 - Tracy's recommended books48:01 - What Tracy wishes she knew when she started out

In the 1990s, Toby Corey co-founded the world's largest web development company. Since then, he's started other companies; held senior management positions at SolarCity, Tesla and most recently PlanGrid; and lectured in Stanford's Department of Management Science & Engineering. Now, he finds himself as concerned by social and environmental problems as with building companies. In response to global crises of climate change and inequality, he advises an approach that he calls "zentrepreneurship," and articulates principles aimed at helping entrepreneurs integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness.

In the 1990s, Toby Corey co-founded the world’s largest web development company. Since then, he’s started other companies; held senior management positions at SolarCity, Tesla and most recently PlanGrid; and lectured in Stanford's Department of Management Science & Engineering. Now, he finds himself as concerned by social and environmental problems as with building companies. In response to global crises of climate change and inequality, he advises an approach that he calls “zentrepreneurship,” and articulates principles aimed at helping entrepreneurs integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness.

In the 1990s, Toby Corey co-founded the world’s largest web development company. Since then, he’s started other companies; held senior management positions at SolarCity, Tesla and most recently PlanGrid; and lectured in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering. Now, he finds himself as concerned by social and environmental problems as with building companies. In response to global crises of climate change and inequality, he advises an approach that he calls “zentrepreneurship,” and articulates principles aimed at helping entrepreneurs integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness.

This week's construction tech news with Jeff Sample (@IronmanofIT), Josh Bone (BIM2theBone) and Buck Davis (@BadBoyofBIM) Featuring: - Interview with Lorrin Blair of PlanGrid - Construction Tech News of the Week - Tech You Should Try: Check out our Playlist on Youtube Follow @TheConTechCrew on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://thecontechcrew.com Powered by JBKnowledge Learn more at http://thecontechcrew.com or follow @JBKnowledge & @TheConTechCrew on Twitter.

YC Partner Jared Friedman joins founders Lillian Chou (COO, Second Measure), Diana Hu (CTO, Escher Reality), Calvin French-Owen (CTO, Segment) and Ralph Gootee (CTO, PlanGrid), to talk about what can go right and wrong building technology.Video Link

This week's construction tech news with Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Buck Davis (@BadBoyofBIM). Featuring: - Interview with Josh Progar from PlanGrid - Construction Tech News of the Week - Tech You Should Try: Rhumbix Follow @TheConTechCrew on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://thecontechcrew.com Powered by JBKnowledge Learn more at http://thecontechcrew.com or follow @JBKnowledge & @TheConTechCrew on Twitter.

The construction industry needs to help build the new America. The challenge is the industry is facing a skilled worker shortage. This is where technology enters the equation. Peggy Smedley and Ralph Gootee, cofounder and CTO, PlanGrid, talk about the skilled labor shortage and how technology can help with recruiting. They also broach the topic of how technology can be used on many of America’s infrastructure projects, helping solve some of the challenges that teams face today.

with Greg Lynn (@greglynnform), Gina Neff (@ginasue), Tracy Young (@Tracy_Young), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Construction has been one of the industries most resistant to innovation and change over the last decades -- productivity has actually decreased there while it has risen in other industries around it. So how are new technologies (finally!) beginning to transform the most brick-and-mortar of all the (literally!) brick-and-mortar industries? This episode of the a16z Podcast -- with Tracy Young, co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid; Greg Lynn, architect, professor at UCLA, and co-founder of Piaggio Fast Forward; and Gina Neff, sociologist at Oxford University (in conversation with Hanne Tidnam) -- considers the problems, and progress, in the construction industry. Information flows in particular are one area where tech is already making meaningful inroads into the construction process... will coordination follow?

This week's construction tech news with Jeff Sample (@theironmanofit), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Buck Davis (@BIMboxUSA) Featuring: - Construction Tech News of the Week - Tech You Should Try: Workspace by PlanGrid - Interview with: Andy Hughes from Cosential Follow @TheConTechCrew on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://thecontechcrew.com Powered by JBKnowledge Learn more at http://thecontechcrew.com or follow @JBKnowledge & @TheConTechCrew on Twitter.

This week's construction tech news with James Benham (@JamesMBenham), Buck Davis (@BIMboxUSA) and Guest Co-Host Sasha Reed (@AlohaSasha), Featuring: - Construction Tech News of the Week - Tech You Should Try: ASL Tool in PlanGrid - Interview with: John Chawlibog from Matterport Follow @TheConTechCrew on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://thecontechcrew.com Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://thecontechcrew.com or follow @JBKnowledge & @TheConTechCrew on Twitter.

Adam Draper made a crazy bet on cryptocurrency when he launched Boost VC, a bitcoin startup accelerator in 2012. Learn about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain from the founder of one of bitcoin and blockchain's earliest and most active incubators. Guest Biography Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC. The first fund to focus on Bitcoin related startups. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also has a very large comic book collection. In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Amplitude. Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams and to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper's dream to create an Iron Man suit. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/031 In this episode, you will learn: What is Bitcoin and why you should care? Why Adam is betting that digital currency will be the future of finance. Risks of investing in the early stages of bitcoin and other crytopcurrencies Find more from our guest: Twitter Medium LinkedIn Boost VC: Boost VC website Twitter Medium Facebook Instagram Mentioned in this episode: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto coinbase.com Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

Jack Altman is the Founder & CEO of Lattice, actually our partners for this month on the show and as you will hear, they are the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. Lattice have raised close to $10m in funding from some of our favourites in industry including the likes of Miles Grimshaw @ Thrive, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, Alexis Ohanian and YC’s Daniel Gross. Prior to founding Lattice, Jack was the Head of Business Development @ Lattice where he saw the firm move into hyperscaling. Jack has also build an incredible angel portfolio including the likes of Gusto, OpenDoor, Instacart, Zenefits and Soylent. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jack made his way from leading angel investor to Head of Business Development @ TeeSpring to the world of SaaS with the founding of Lattice? 2.) What does Jack mean when he says "founders must do what it takes to get the best people on board"? To what extent does Jack believe that great investors provide social validity to future hires? 3.) How does Jack think about really getting the best from his team? What is core to empowering them? Why does he believe that EQ is the most important skill for managers? What does Jack believe is the right way to give clear and direct feedback? 4.) Why does Jack believe that the best relationships with investors are less formal? What does Jack really look for in his relationships with investors? What does Jack mean when he says ''investor advice is right on valuation''? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jack’s Fave Book: Meditations Jack’s Fave Blog: SaaStr As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Jack on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Paul Buchheit is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with portfolio companies including the likes of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, Zenefits, Twitch, the list goes on. Before YC and starting from the beginning, Paul was the 23rd employee at Google where he created Gmail, developed the original prototype for Google AdSense and even suggested the company's former motto, "Don't Be Evil". He then started FriendFeed in 2006 where he created the like button as we know it, the company was later acquired by Facebook where Paul worked until his move to Y Combinator in 2010, where he is a partner. Paul is also a prolific angel having created an immense portfolio with the likes of Gusto, Checkr, Optimizely and many more incredible teams. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Paul made his way from creating Gmail in the early Google days, to founding the like button we know today, to being with Y Combinator currently? 2.) What does Paul believe it is that makes Paul Graham (PG) the special individual that he is? How has Paul seen the scaling of PG and Jessica Livingstone as leaders with the scaling of YC? 3.) Why does Paul believe it is fundamental to attain 100 happy users? How can one stress test levels of customer satisfaction accurately? How can founders determine which users and which advice to incorporate and which to disregard? 4.) Having worked alongside the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Paige, what does Paul believe makes the truly special founders? How does Paul assess the balance between stubbornness and vision? What is the telltale sign of stubbornness beginning? 5.) Question from Justin Kan: How does Paul look to determine the 10% that delivers 90% of the value? Where has Paul made mistakes and seen others make mistakes in trying to implement this level of focus? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Paul’s Fave Book: Eckhart Tolle Paul’s Most Recent Investment: Greo As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Paul on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Ali Rowghani is a Partner @ Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with portfolio companies including the likes of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, Zenefits, Twitch, the list goes on. At YC, Ali leads the Continuity Fund where has made investments in the likes of Segment, Convoy and Lob, where he also sits on the board of all 3. Prior to investing with YC, Ali spent 4 years at Twitter, starting as CFO before becoming COO. Whilst at Twitter, Ali saw the company scale from $0 revenues to over $2Bn and 20m users to close to 300m users. Before Twitter, Ali was the CFO @ Pixar Animation Studios. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Ali made his way from CFO @ Pixar and COO @ Twitter to now leading YC's continuity fund? 2.) Ali describes a story of his time at Pixar working with Steve Jobs? How did he carry himself both as a leader and an operator? What was it about Steve that makes Ali say he is the most impressive exec he has ever worked with? 3.) Having seen the likes of Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, Jack Dorsey in action what have been Ali's biggest takeaways with regards to what makes the truly great leaders? Why does Ali believe there are 3 traits all great leaders share? What are they? 4.) How does Ali look to bring that experience to his role now, investing with YC Continuity? How does that affect his mindset and evaluation when assessing investment opportunities today? 5.) Why does Ali believe that too many startups have been damaged by the amount of capital they have raised? As a former CFO, how does Ali analyze the capital being raised today and some of the burn rates in the valley? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Ali’s Fave Book: Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Ali’s Fave Blog: Bill Gurley: Above The Crowd Ali’s Most Recent Investment: Segment As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Ali on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Adi Sideman is the Founder & CEO @ YouNow. Since founding the company in 2011, Adi has grown YouNow to be a global social network with more than 100 million user sessions a month, and creators now producing more than 50,000 hours of original live content each day. They recently released PROPS (Telegram available here), the next generation platform that leverages the power of crypto economics & participation in digital media. To fund this growth, they have raised over $25m in funding from some of the greats of the investing world including Andy Weissman @ USV, David Pakman @ Venrock and future guest Oren Zeev. Due to this incredible progress, YouNow has been named one of the most innovative companies of 2016 by Fast Company and was a finalist for Fastest Rising Startup of 2016 at the Crunchies Awards. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Adi made his way into the world of participatory digital content, came to found the world's first online karaoke company and then found YouNow? 2.) Setting the scene now, where are we at with TV? What platform does Adi believe will rise formidably in it's place? How does that affect the age-old industry of advertising? Why does Adi believe after so many years, now is the time for micro-payment content creation? 3.) Why does the digital media content landscape need to be decentralized? What is fundamentally broken with the current centralised networks? What are the benefits of such decentralization? 4.) How does Adi envision this decentralization to be? Does Adi believe we will build new decentralized protocols and exact the decentralized network through them or does he believe we will integrate new protocols into existing services? 5.) Why does this decentralized network be crypto-based? With centralized networks the value largely accrues to investors and founders, how does Adi sell the value of a decentralized network to an investor base with fiduciary responsibilities? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Adi’s Favourite Book: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill  As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Nicole Quinn is a Partner @ Lightspeed, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfolio including the likes of Snapchat, Nest, StitchFix, AppDynamics and Max Levchin's Affirm, just to name a few from their incredible portfolio. At Lightspeed, Nicole focuses on the consumer market having made investments in the likes of Cheddar, Zola and Rothy's. Prior to Lightspeed, Nicole worked at Nutmeg, one of London's leading fintech players and before that spent 8 years covering consumer, eCommerce and brands at Morgan Stanley on the equity sales and research side. At Morgan Stanley, Nicole worked on the IPOs for Facebook, Groupon and Pandora. Fun fact: Nicole is also a star of the big screen featuring on Apple TV's Planet of The Apps. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Nicole made her way from Morgan Stanley to a leading London Fintech player to now, a partner a Lightspeed in San Francisco? 2.) How does Nicole define "digitally native brands"? What are the core benefits of owning the entire customer journey? Why does Nicole believe that brand is a key network effect today? 3.) Why does Nicole disagree that we are in a fallow period for consumer? How does Nicole analyze the incumbent heavy competitive landscape? Does Nicole believe that Amazon does more to make the market than destroy it? 4.) Why does Nicole believe we are in a consolidatory environment? What about the current ecosystem makes now the most exciting time for M&A in a long time? How does Nicole analyze M&A's ability to move the needle with transactions like Bonobos' acquisition? 5.) Being a star of Planet of The Apps, how important does Nicole think it is for investors to have public brands today? How does Nicole view VCs and digitally native brands in the same way? How does this mean that VCs should act in market? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Nicole’s Fave Book: The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton Nicole’s Fave Blog: Lean Luxe Nicole's Most Recent Investment: Rothy's As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Nicole on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Semil Shah is the founder of Haystack, an early stage investment firm now investing out of it’s fourth fund, with previous investments in the likes of Instacart, DoorDash, Giphy, OpenDoor & Managed by Q. Semil is also a Venture Partner @ GGV Capital, one of the leading multi-stage funds and in the past he has also been a consultant to the likes of Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, General Catalyst and more. If that was not enough, Shah also has an extensive career in media having been a contributor for both TechCrunch and the Harvard Business Review in the past. Due to all of this, Shah is known for being on the speed dial of some of the industry’s most respected VCs with the likes of Marc Andreessen naming him one of his ’55 Unknown Rockstars in Tech’. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Semil made the transition from the world of writing to investing alongside some of the best in venture with Haystack? 2.) Why do more and more managers want to introduce institutional capital into their LP base? What are the advantages? What are the drawbacks? Where does Semil see most managers going wrong when pursuing institutional capital for the first time? 3.) What does Semil mean when he states the importance of "pre-marketing"? How open is one in these pre-discussions with potential LPs? What is the right amount of time to be pre-marketing for? How does Semil determine whether to adopt a piece of LP advice and when not to? 4.) In the raising process, why does Semil never like to the use the deck when meeting in person? What core elements of the presentation did LPs always hone in on? What tips does Semil have to potential managers to ensure they can pitch at any time, not just the boardroom? 5.) How has moving from non-institutional to institutional fund, changed how Semil thinks about reserve allocation? Why does Semil believe that the majority of LPs have a wrong thesis to reserve allocation? 6.) Why does Semil believe the VC business model is severely constrained in terms of exits through IPO and acquisition? What does this mean for the use of secondaries? How will managers need to incorporate this into their strategy? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Semil’s Fave Blog: AVC  Semil’s Most Recent Investment: Ironclad As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Semil on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Julia Hartz is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Eventbrite, the unicorn startup that is the world's largest event technology platform, powering over 2 million events around the world each year. They have raised over $330m from some of the greats of industry including Roelof Botha @ Sequoia Capital, Jeff Clavier @ SoftTech, David Saks, Bebo's Michael Birch, Tiger Global and many more. Under Julia's leadership, she has taken Eventbrite to become the world's largest event technology platform and has received multiple accolades for workplace culture, being named the best place to work in SF for 7 years running. Personally, Julia has won numerous awards including Fortune's 40 Under 40, Inc's 35 Under 35 and Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Julia came to found Eventbrite with her husband Kevin from a small apartment in Potrero Hill and turned it into the unicorn it is today? 2.) How did Julia and Kevin meet? What was the meet-cute? How did that translate into the founding of Eventbrite? How did Julia think about partnering with her fiancee at the time, as a business partner? What made it also a great business partnership? 3.) Why does Julia believe that creating a company is like creating a family? How has Julia seen herself scale as CEO of the company, with the immense scaling and growth of the firm? What have been the challenges and how did she overcome them? 4.) What does Julia believe are the requirements for successful CEO transition? How can this be managed correctly both internally and externally? What other elements made last year a particularly momentus year for change at Eventbrite? 5.) How does Julia think about balancing the immediate elements of the present day with the long-term vision for the roadmap? What is the right mindset to adopt? How does one look to prevent "Innovators Dilemma"? How does Julia split her time? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Julia’s Fave Book: Overwhelmed Julia's Fave Blog: The Skimm As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Julia on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Sam Arbesman is the Scientist-In-Residence @ Lux Capital, the fund that supports scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time, the more ambitious the project, the better. Sam works with companies and founders that recognize the future happens at the boundaries of science and technology infusing computation into everything from biology to manufacturing.Sam’s scientific research has been published in everything from the Wall Street Journal to The New York Times and The Atlantic. Sam is also the author of the award-winning The Half-Life of Facts and the new book Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Sam made his move from being a best-selling author to Scientist in Residence for Lux Capital? As Scientist in Residence, what does Sam do on a day-to-day basis? 2.) What does Sam mean when he says that startups need to embrace "radical interdisciplinarity"? What really is "radical interdisciplinarity"? What are the benefits it brings to an organisation? Does this go contra the importance of specialisation? 3.) How does Sam view the partnership between man and machine? Why does Sam believe we will see computational creativity in a way never seen before? How does Sam view the societal barriers to the embracing of this partnership? 4.) How does Sam view the promise of analogizing in the face of such complex systems? How does Sam assess the perils of such analogies? Does Sam believe that VCs of today are equipped to invest in such complex systems? What must they remember? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Sam’s Fave Book: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, The Three Body Problem Sam's Fave Blog: Marginal Revolution As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Sam on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Aaron VanDevender is the Chief Scientist at Founders Fund, one of the world's leading fund with investments in the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, SpaceX, Spotify and many more incredible companies. At Founders Fund, Aaron monitors the scientific impact of the portfolio, works with portfolio companies, assesses new technologies, and conducts his own research. Prior to Founders Fund, Aaron has designed single-photon and single-atom quantum computers in academia and government (NIST), advanced the quantum-mechanical theory for microscopic black holes, patented the fastest transparent optical switch, and is a co-inventor of yoctotechnology. He then developed next-generation DNA sequencing technology at Halcyon Molecular. His broad scientific interests encompass energy, biotech, nanotech, and computing. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Aaron made his way from microscopic black holes and DNA sequencing to the world of Founders Fund? What does a Scientist-In-Residence do? 2.) Why does Aaron believe that AI is mostly a scam? Where does Aaron see and then want to see further progression in the field of AI and ML? How does Aaron distinguish between crazy and genius? What are the signs? 3.) Why does Aaron believe that the value of massive datasets is largely overplayed? What characteristics of datasets are exciting for Aaron to see when evaluating an opportunity? Where and how can datasets be misleading and lose their value? 4.) How does Aaron view the societal effects of 4m truck drivers being unemployed by the rise of self-driving? How does Aaron view trucking both as goods distribution and wealth distribution networks? 5.) How does Aaron view the implementation of universal basic income? Why does Aaron believe we have a challenge decoupling wealth and virtue? To what extent is this a core problem? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Aaron’s Fave Book: Tales From The Thousand & One Arabian Nights Aaron's Fave Blog: Slash Dot Investment Aaron is Most Excited By: Ayar Labs As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Aaron on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Luis Von Ahn is the Founder & CEO @ Duolingo, the leading language learning platform with over 100m users. They have backing from some of the best in the investing world with over $100m in funding from the likes of USV, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Google Capital and even Ashton Kutcher. Prior to Duolingo, Luis is known for inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow (“genius grant” recipient), and selling two companies to Google in his 20’s. Luis has been named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Scientists by Popular Science Magazine, one of the 20 Best Brains Under 40 by Discover. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Luis, a man as he describes "never great at learning languages", came to found the leading language learning app, Duolingo? 2.) Why do VCs generally believe Edtech to be such a "hard" space? Is that really a fair assumption? How does the role of government change the distribution and landscape of edtech? How does content creation play a pivotal role in edtech today? 3.) What role does Luis believe AI and ML will play for the future of edtech? Will the transition to bots represent a transformational shift in the interface paradigm? How does gamification and edtech integrate? Why does Luis always measure themselves against the most addictive of games? 4.) How has Luis seen himself scale and change as a leader with the scaling of the firm? What story shows an element that Luis struggled with and how did he overcome it? What were the major inflection points in the growth of the firm? 5.) Duolingo recently raised their $25m Series E, how did this round differ from prior rounds? Why did they want to negotiate down the figure they wanted to raise? How did Valley based VCs present herd mentality for the duration of the recent raise? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Luis’s Fave Book: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid  Luis' Fave Blog: AVC by Fred Wilson As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Luis on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Samir Kaji is what one might call, a master of all things seed stage and micro VC financing. Over his 18 years in venture capital, Samir has assisted or advised over 700 companies and 300 VC firms and has completed tech financing transactions totaling over $4.0 billion in committed capital. Today, Samir is the Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank where leads the technology banking team managing venture capital and startup company relationships. He joined First Republic in 2013 from Silicon Valley Bank, where he was also a managing director. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Samir made his entry into the world of VC from the ground up and has come to advise and assist on over $4Bn worth of capital commitments? 2.) Where is the micro VC and seed market today? What is the overview? What has fundamentally changed over the last few years? Are all increases in capital supply good or is this too much? Why is Samir concerned by valuation bloat at seed? 3.) How are LPs reacting to this explosion in seed and micro fund managers? How does this differ when assessing the differing classes of LP from institutions to HNWs and family offices? What are the likelihoods of 1st-time funds attaining institutional capital? 4.) How should potential managers think about the right fund size to raise? How long a timeline should be given to the raising of micro and seed funds? What exceptions are there to this timeline? How does the role of multiple closings play into this timeline? 5.) How does Samir differentiate between raising a fund and building a franchise? What does this mean about how a certain set of anagers not only engages in the fundraising process but also depicts the narrative? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Samir’s Fave Book: Hard Thing About Hard Things Samir’s Fave Blog: Strictly VC, AVC by Fred Wilson As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Samir on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

Michael Dearing has established himself as an icon of early-stage venture over the last decade. With his founding of Harrison Metal in 2006, he has backed the likes of Twitter, MoPub, Birchbox, 99Designs and PagerDuty just to name a few of his incredible companies. Prior to being in VC, Michael spent 6 years at eBay across numerous roles and before that held positions at Shoe Warehouse as CEO, The Walt Disney Company in corporate strategy and then Bain & Co as a consultant. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Michael made his way into the world of venture from selling shoes with Shoe Warehouse to eBay to founding his own fund? 2.) Michael has said before that he looks for "personal exceptionalism" within the teams he backs, what does that really mean? How does he distinguish brilliance from arrogance? What is the balance between vision and stubbornness? 3.) How does Michael think about price sensitivity? How does he use it as a determining factor to test his level of conviction in the deal? More broadly, how does Michael view pricing in the market today? Why are the convertible debt markets so toxic? 4.) How does Michael view strategy around reserve allocation? Why does Michael believe reserves are where he has made the biggest mistakes? What are his takeaways from those mistakes? Why does recycling not feature as a core tenet of his strategy? 5.) Why does Michael believe that "benevolent dictatorship" is a beautiful thing? Does this thesis change in the debate over founder vs company first? How does Michael use McCallum's 5 key principles to assess founders and their ability? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Michael’s Fave Book: Confederacy of Dunces Michael’s Most Recent Investment: Astro As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Michael on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

On this episode of the Art of Construction, we discuss PlanGrid with Co-Founder and CTO, Ralph Gootee. PlanGrid is a construction management app that allows real time project updates, storage of all project documents, the ability to work offline and online, easy collaboration and more. It is the largest digital repository of blue prints in the world. Have a listen as we learn about all of the wonderful features Plangrid offers to anyone working in the construction industry.

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/2t1gI9IThis week's construction tech news with James Benham (@jamesmbenham), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Josh Bone (@bim2thebone) Featuring Construction Tech News of the Week including: - the PlanGrid construction app-DroneDeploy's new overlay tool-Kaarta Contour handheld scanner-Pavegen's energy-harvesting smart street-And much more! Interview about construction technology training with Brian Myers fom Alberici Contractors. Follow @ConTechTrio on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://jbknowledge.com/contechtrio Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://jbknowledge.com or follow @JBKnowledge on Twitter.

Today we caught up with Chantal Jandard, a designer currently building products at PlanGrid. In this episode we dig into Chantal's background, building a portfolio, learning how to interview, and...improv!

This week’s podcast features our interview with Adam Draper, Founder & Managing Director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also co-founded Xpert Financial while still in his senior year at UCLA, which he then left in 2012, focusing on angel investing in which he invested in 20 companies, including Coinbase, Plangrid, and Practice Fusion, before starting Boost VC with this co-founder Brayton Williams. Launched in 2012, Boost VC is a specialized seed-stage accelerator that invests in blockchain and virtual reality startups. Twice a year Boost VC invests in 25+ startups. The three month accelerator program includes housing and office space in Silicon Valley. Boost’s Portfolio consists of 138 companies, who have raised over $125M after joining Boost VC. Adam joined Chuck Feerick and Healthbox President & COO Neil Patel to talk about Investing in Virtual Reality in this final part in our series on Virtual Reality in the healthcare space. A few of the topics we dive into in this episode include: Adam’s background, how he came to develop an interest in VR, and how close he is to developing an Ironman Suit How the Boost VC Model operates and how Adam helps companies in the VR space The concept of VR has been around for over 30 years, yet last year we saw more than  $2B in VC money pour into the AR/VR, space continuing a trend we’ve seen over the past few years. Adam breaks down what is making this growth take off Why Adam thinks Healthcare is an underrated space Adams’ current healthcare investments and what makes him say “yes” or “no” Given Adam’s experience in gaming, entertainment, and retail, Adam discusses possibilities for VR in Healthcare The overall challenges that VR startups face and Adam’s advice for overcoming them, from an investor’s perspective What Adam thinks needs to happen for VR to go from a “cool” gadget to transformative technology Links: Innovation Rising Episode 19: Bonus - Accelerator/Studio Program Roundtable with Healthbox and Adam Draper of Boost VC Connect with Adam: LinkedIn Twitter Medium Connect with BoostVC Website Twitter Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to this episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/2p1eljvThis week's construction tech news with James Benham (@jamesmbenham), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Josh Bone (@bim2thebone) Featuring Construction Tech News of the Week including: - Touchplan.io- 8 Skills of an Effective Construction General Manager - Revit 2018 features- BIMBOX first mobile station- Facebook's Camera Effects Platform- What Facebook's Bet on Augmented Reality Means for Your Phone -And much more! Interview about creating software for construction with guest Ralph Gootee, CTO and Co-founder at PlanGrid. Follow @ConTechTrio on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://jbknowledge.com/contechtrio Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://jbknowledge.com or follow @JBKnowledge on Twitter.

Entrepreneur Tracy Young and Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia, discuss the nature of a harmonious relationship between a startup's founders and the VC firm investing in them. Young is co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, which allows construction managers to oversee projects via their device. She and Leone speak with Toby Corey, a lecturer in Stanford University's School of Engineering.

Entrepreneur Tracy Young and Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia, discuss the nature of a harmonious relationship between a startup’s founders and the VC firm investing in them. Young is co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, which allows construction managers to oversee projects via their device. She and Leone speak with Toby Corey, a lecturer in Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

Entrepreneur Tracy Young and Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia, discuss the nature of a harmonious relationship between a startup’s founders and the VC firm investing in them. Young is co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, which allows construction managers to oversee projects via their device. She and Leone speak with Toby Corey, a lecturer in Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC, 2x entrepreneur and a fourth generation venture capitalist. Boost VC focuses on future technology development in the industries of Blockchain, VR, SciFi Tech. They are always seeking passionate technologists from around the world for their accelerator programs in Silicon Valley. Whether you are a startup with an idea like Adam's dream of someday creating an Iron Man suit (listen to learn what we are talking about!) or just looking for more information about this unique kind of company, this one is worth a listen. Make sure to subscribe, share and review the podcast. Contribute Bitcoin to fuel our interviews and keep us going! Bio: In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Earnest. Currently his portfolio of investments is valued at more than $1.5B. Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams and to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper's dream to create an Iron Man suit.

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/2aBzBTRThis week's construction tech news with James Benham (@jamesmbenham), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Josh Bone (@bim2thebone) Featuring Construction Tech News of the Week including:- Anti-drone rifle- Robo-builder that can build a house in 2 days- SkySite's new ProjectLink App- Top 5 worst construction site tech practices- Autodesk's new live service- PlanGrid's new API- Intel's augmented reality smart glasses- And much more!Interview about software interoperability in construction with guests Walter Davis and Dennis Stejskal, from SAGE.Follow #ConTechTrio on social media for more updates and to join the conversation!Listen to the show at http://jbknowledge.com/contechtrio Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://jbknowledge.com or follow @JBKnowledge on Twitter.

When managing a construction project, keeping your subcontractors equipped with the most recent blueprints saves time and prevents errors.

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0170 And It Will Be About Ten Construction Tools You Can Fit in Your Pocket Today's Guest Article Is From Simon Worsfold A Copywriter At TSheets There are some tools that apps will never replace. Hammers for example. But smartphones are making lighter work for many in construction and the industry has definitely switched on to their potential. According to at least two recent surveys, one by On Center and the other by JBKnowledge, four out of five construction workers are now using apps on the job site. From punch lists to project management, there’s a huge range of construction apps out there now and to help you choose the best of them, TSheets has recently announced a new “Top Ten Construction Apps” awards. For A Tsheets 14 Day Free Trial Go To https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/tsheets The winners fall into ten categories: Safety, Estimates & Bids, Measurements, Time Tracking, Photo Annotation, Task Management, Blueprints, Project Management, Reporting, and Communication. There’s also a Virtual Toolbox category with recommendations for a high-exposure safety app called Fall Safety as well as practical tools for roofing and carpentry. But the big winners in the awards are apps that specialize in calculating and sharing critical information such as measurements, blueprints, and reports, and many of them are either free or have free trial versions that give you a chance to try them out yourself. Interested in adding some new apps to your toolbelt? Head over to TSheets’ website now to find out who won. Save Time and Money on the Job Site The experts have weighed in, the reviews have been tallied, and your peers in the field have cast their votes. These are the top 10 apps for the construction industry in 2016—able to accomplish everything from bidding to time tracking to calculations and measurements for contractors and mobile workers. How can these apps improve your business? Keep reading below to learn what makes each of these construction apps #1 in their area of specialty, and how they can revolutionize communication, collaboration, and profitability for you and your crew. Read customer reviews, pros and cons, business benefits, and more. This is technology that will help you do your job—not replace it. The future of construction is bright for contractors and crews with their feet on the ground and these best-of-breed apps in hand. ___________________________________________________________________ Best App for Safety SafeSite What if you could save lives and save paper at the same time? With SafeSite, you can. The app was developed by construction professionals, for construction professionals and aims to decrease the number of workplace injuries while increasing productivity, reducing paperwork, and keeping everything organized in one handy app. SafeSite is a digital solution that allows field workers to upload checklists, conduct safety inspections, and export completed forms with accuracy and speed—all while ensuring compliance. Using the mobile app, you can log safety hazards and observations on the spot and automatically notify responsible parties for a solution. Safesite will track and log the progress of each resolution along the way. Features ·    Report safety hazards on the spot, then assign follow-up actions and deadlines ·    Create custom inspections, checklists, and forms ·    Share reports and from the field instantly to internal and external parties—saving time and paper! ·    Generate daily and weekly automated safety reports for effortless compliance ·    Upload pictures to communicate quickly and effectively with everyone involved—no matter when or where ·    Create plant and equipment profiles, and complete scheduled inspections against them ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Estimates And Bids Job Flex Being able to quickly and easily create estimates for customers using an estimating app is critical. The difference between gaining a new client and losing a potential job often hinges on how quickly and professionally you can turn that estimate around. With JobFLEX, there's no tech savvy needed. Deliver estimates on the spot, with or without a cellular connection. Create and edit customizable forms, then just drag and drop line item costs, materials, and photos. When you're finished, preview, email or print the estimate with one tap. Features ·    Create estimates with or without Wi-Fi/a cell signal ·    Easily build editable materials list ·    Include photos in estimates for reference and a professional touch ·    Use customizable formats for each estimate ·    Preview, email, or print estimates with just a tap ·    Get access to free, unlimited support ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Calculations And Measurement Construction Master Pro The fewer things you have to carry with you on the job, or when scoping out a new bid, the better. So why carry an extra calculator when you could just bring your phone? Whether you're laying stairs, determining how much drywall you need, or completing the right angle calculations when framing a roof, CM Pro is an intuitive, comprehensive alternative to a handheld construction calculator. Features ·    Created by Calculated, Inc., the standard in handheld construction calculators ·    Calculate dimensional math and conversions ·    Includes right-angle tools, compound miters, and costs per unit ·    Use customizable formats for each estimate ·    Easily convert between all standard measuring formats ·    Includes a trigonometry mode ·    User guides in both Spanish and English ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Time Tracking And Scheduling TSheets One of the most daunting (and time-consuming) aspects of running a construction company is staying on top of back-office tasks, like scheduling and payroll. Tracking your employees' hours and building a schedule in the cloud with TSheets—instead of old school with spreadsheets or paper—will save you time, money, and sanity. TSheets' intuitive, easy-to-use app allows your employees to track their time right from their phones—or you can choose to clock in an entire crew at once, with the handy Crew App feature. From the administrator's dashboard, you'll also see where crew members are in real time through gps and and the Who's Working view. Features ·    Stay in the loop with notifications sent if employees don't clock into a job as scheduled, or approach overtime limits ·    Save 2-8% on gross payroll costs, and eliminate manual time entry ·    Improves employee accountability and accuracy of hours ·    Features In-app scheduling so employees can easily clock in and out of assigned jobs ·    Works as a viable alternative to geofencing, with GPS tracking ·    Mobile management options for workers on the go or at multiple job sites ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Photo Annotation Photo Measures Photo Measures is an innovative app that enables anyone from construction contractors to homeowners to record, save, and share measurements and dimensions—by directly annotating their own photos. Say sayonara to napkin sketches and illegible numbers, Photo Measures makes it easy to see and remember the exact measurements—any time, any place—no matter who took them. Never wonder, "Will this fit?" or "How much paint do we need?" again. Features ·    Zoom in and out for greater precision ·    Easily edit measurements and add comments ·    Export high resolution photos to email or save in your photo library ·    Take photos on the spot or import photos from your phone (any size will work!) ·    Organize recorded photos into folders directly from the app ·    Record unlimited measurements on unlimited photos ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Task Management Fieldwire There are plenty of task management apps out there—in fact, sorting through all of them can be a day's work in and of itself. But Fieldwire is a task management app made specifically for the construction industry is another matter. Fieldwire is a task management app built by construction professionals, for construction professionals, and lets project leaders, foremen, and superintendents delegate jobs and tasks quickly and easily, whether they're out in the field or back in the office. Create tasks tied to blueprints, job sites, or projects, and categorize tasks by job type (such as carpentry or electrical). You can also specify a deadline, priority level, related tasks, manpower, a checklist, photos, plus any notes you want to add. Features ·    Create punch lists right on your drawings and blueprints to put tasks in context. ·    Alert workers of assigned jobs by email or app message. ·    See instantly which tasks are complete or overdue. ·    Navigate quickly through your task lists by location or priority. ·    Add detail to your tasks by uploading photos, PDFs, and other attachments ·    Create daily reports to highlight progress and any outstanding jobs. ·    Share up-to-date technical drawings with whoever needs them. ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Construction Plans And Blueprints PlanGrid No more bulky paper copies to search through or costly reprints to run. No more emergencies when spilled coffee or illegible writing mean backtracking and guesswork. With PlanGrid, you get a portable blueprint creation tool and library that puts all your technical drawings right in your pocket. Designed for construction managers, architects, engineers, contractors, and home builders, PlanGrid keeps everyone on your project on the same page by syncing a master set of drawings, notes, and photos to your phone, tablet, or computer. Features ·    Take all your blueprints with you wherever you go. ·    Share plans, drawings, and notes instantly with whoever needs them. ·    Add personal or public notes straight onto your plans. ·    Make and send requests for information (RFIs) on any project. ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Project Management Co-Construct Ever wish you had an extra project manager on site to help you evaluate, bid out, and complete a project? Now you have one in your pocket. Co-Construct is a project management tool for home builders and remodelers that stores all the information you need to build or remodel a home. The app can be used at every stage of a project's lifecycle, from the initial bidding process through to completion and beyond. Use it to create project estimates and proposals, invite and manage bids from subcontractors, store all your plans and specifications, track project costs, schedule and manage jobs on the worksite, create and manage change orders, update your accounting data, and manage punch list items on completed projects that are still under warranty. Features ·    Reduces paperwork at every stage of your project: from proposal to completion. ·    Improves communication with your clients and subcontractors. ·    Includes bid management, cost management, and labor management tools. ·    Syncs with QuickBooks to create invoices and cost forecasts. ·    Allows you to manage all your projects from a single dashboard. ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Reporting Raken Reports should help you analyze, streamline, document, and identify problems in your construction business—not slow it down. Raken is a daily reporting tool for construction managers, superintendents, and foremen that speeds up the reporting process when filing incident reports, work logs, and to-do lists—and it can all be done right from the job site. Simply type your reports straight into your phone or tablet or let the app do it for you by recording voice memos for the app to transcribe. When your report is complete, the app will create a signed PDF with all your notes and photos on it which you can share with whoever needs it Features ·    Create daily, time-stamped work reports out in the field. ·    Type reports, or record voice memos for the app to transcribe ·    Record climatic information and any time lost to bad weather. ·    Attach photos, videos, and audio files to any notes you make. ·    Create an instant PDF copy of your report to share by email. ___________________________________________________________________ Best App For Communication BuilderTREND Keeping everyone on the same page and in the know is hard. But streamlined, effective, real-time communication means fewer errors, a better experience for your employees and customers and a better reputation. BuilderTREND was created especially for the construction workspace to connect everyone involved in a project (from the builder, to the contractor, to the customer) with every single detail—every step of the way. It features automatic updates and real-time notifications that allow builders to manage projects, collaborate, and communicate with subcontractors, vendors, project managers, and customers. Features ·    Easily document and share job logs from the field—record notes using voice to text (or your keyboard), and add a progress photo each step of the way ·    Assign to-do items to yourself, your workers, or your associates ·    Share and annotate photos and blueprints right from the job site ·    Use in-app messaging (fast, easy, and organized) to communicate quickly; search by topic, leave a comment, and restrict who can (or can't) see your response ·    Coordinate with subcontractors and trade partners—send big requests and purchase orders straight from your mobile device ·    Track and accept online payments ___________________________________________________________________   About The Author: Simon Worsfold is a copywriter at TSheets, a top-rated time tracking app that helps hundreds of thousands of employees to track their time simply and accurately every day. Originally from Surrey in south east England, Simon now lives and works in Boise, Idaho.   Simon Worsfold Copywriter  |  888.836.2720 TSheets.com | 923 S. Bridgeway Place | Eagle, ID 8361 ___________________________________________________________________ I trust this podcast helps you understand that outsourcing your contractors bookkeeping services to us is about more than just “doing the bookkeeping”; it is about taking holistic approach to your entire construction company and helping support you as a contractor and as a person. We Remove Contractor's Unique Paperwork Frustrations We understand the good, bad and the ugly about owning and operating construction companies because we have had several of them and we sincerely care about you and your construction company! 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Show Notes: http://bit.ly/1Tw3poVThis week's construction tech news with James Benham (@jamesmbenham), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Josh Bone (@bim2thebone) Featuring Construction Tech News of the Week including:- Hundai's new 'Iron Man Suit' - EarthCam launching its 4k webcam solution- Google's announcement of Daydream- The first offsite-built modular hotel- BIM News- And much more!- Interview about Construction Plan Platforms with guest Tracy Young, CEO of @PlanGrid Follow #ConTechTrio on social media for more updates and to join the conversation!Listen to the show at http://jbknowledge.com/contechtrio Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://jbknowledge.com or follow @JBKnowledge on Twitter.

Adam Draper is a fourth generation venture capitalist and the Founder & CEO @ Boost VC, a specialised seed stage accelerator that invests in blockchain and virtual reality startups. Before starting Boost, Adam angel invested in 20 companies including Coinbase, Plangrid and Practice Fusion. During his angel investment period, Adam was also the Founder of Xpert Financial in his aim to revolutionise the financial markets for private companies. We would like to say a special thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data used in the show today and you can check out Mattermark Search here! In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Adam made his way into startups and the investing industry? 2.) Why is Adam so bullish on the topics of bitcoin and virtual reality? 3.) What are the fundamental use cases for bitcoin and why have we not seen mass adoption on a global scale so far? What are the barriers to adoption? 4.) What is the investment attitude to the bitcoin and VR space? Does the volatility of the price in bitcoin affect the level of investment going into the sector? 5.) What would Adam like to see more of in the space? What is he most excited for and where does he see the most potential? Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Adam's Fave Book: The Name Of The Wind Adam's Fave Blog: Mugglenet Adam's Most Recent Investment: Joystream As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Adam on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/20pn9IBThis week's construction tech news with James Benham (@jamesmbenham), Rob McKinney (@conappguru) and Josh Bone (@bim2thebone). Featuring: -Autodesk's restructuring updates-Super Bowl Fun Construction Facts-AEC Hackathon-Plan File Management Apps including Plangrid, Skysite, CurrentSite-Special guest Matt Hinson (@hinsonmatt), CEO of Rollout AEC (rollout_inc) a new plan and communication platform for construction.Follow #ConTechTrio on social media for more updates!Powered by JBKnowledge. Learn more at http://jbknowledge.com or follow @JBKnowledge on Twitter.

Episode 4 of Startup School Radio: Host Aaron Harris interviews Tracy Young, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Ralph Gootee, the founders of PlanGrid. Also on the show: Liz Wessel and JJ Fliegelman, the founders of Campus Job.