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On this episode of the Transform Work podcast, John Winsor checks in with Michael Contreras, the Founder of Ensemble. Ensemble is a digital transformation agency powered by open talent that delivers innovative solutions to some of the most recognizable public agencies including NASA. Michael is a former general manager at Wipro and Topcoder, and a past AAAS Science & Technology Fellow at the Department of Energy.Michael ContrerasEnsemble
About Prasanna Sankar: Few possess a rare combination of exceptional talent, entrepreneurial vision, and a relentless drive to push boundaries. My next guest on The One Percent Project, Prasanna Sankar, the co-founder of Rippling, is undoubtedly one such individual. In 2010, Prasanna co-founded Likealittle, a college campus social network that experienced an incredible surge, skyrocketing from 0 to 20 million page views in six weeks. Prasanna's coding prowess has earned him international recognition. Furthermore, during his college years, Prasanna held the esteemed rank-one position at TopCoder, solidifying his status as a true coding prodigy. In part one of this two-part series, listen in to learn about Prasanna's journey from TOPCoder to Microsoft, strategies for building and optimising for pace and efficiency, views on the future of crypto, the invaluable lessons learned along the way that help him identify the next big thing and much more Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to it and sign up for The One Percent Project's "Think" newsletter at onepercent.live for curated content that adds value to your professional and personal development. Key Take Aways & Transcript: https://bit.ly/TOP_Prasanna Follow & Subscribe: WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/TOP_WA2 YouTube: https://bit.ly/TOP_Youtube LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/TOP_LinkedIn Twitter: https://bit.ly/TOP_Twitter1 Instagram: https://bit.ly/TOP_Insta In this conversation, he talks about: 00:00 Intro 02:03 Growing up in India. 05:00 The role of confidence in early life. 08:15 The balance between pace & efficiency. 16:05 Meta, Microsoft and Google 20:22 Future & Brilliance of Bitcoin. 27:36 The power of having a free mind.
In this episode, our host JoAnn Meyer talks with Andrew Abbott, Global Sales Lead for Topcoder, and they discuss comet hunting, fighting lung cancer and seeing far below the Earth's surface. Andrew shares how 1.7 million community members use this open innovation platform and digital marketplace to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients while growing their own skills. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaabbott/ https://www.topcoder.com/ This episode is made possible by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN ... Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events
In this episode Eleanor and Barry are joined by Adam Morehead from Topcoder, arguably the best community building platform in the industry. Topcoder have built a unique community of 1.7 million of the world's best technologists. Over the past 20 years they have placed community building at the core of their offering. They combine regular virtual events with an annual in person event for the top performers in the community. The Topcoder Open has become the equivalent of the Olympics of engineering! This week the team also discuss lessons learned from Rishad Tobaccowala, Stephen Bartlett, Elizabeth Daily's How to Fail Podcast and Jay Shetty's book Think Like a Monk. www.topcoder.com www.open-assembly.com
In this episode, I speak with two-time colleague Kyle Bowerman of Atrium AI. Kyle is the Director of Enterprise Architecture, a team that works as "data plumbers." We discuss what got Kyle into consulting, and Kyle shares some of his wisdom for new consultants. Kyle also shares his experiences with crowdsourcing, and we talk about Appirio's journey with the crowdsourcing platform, Topcoder.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Maximizing Your Donations via a Job, published by Alexei on the LessWrong. In November of 2012 I set a goal for myself: find the most x-risk reducing role I can fill. At first I thought it would be by working directly with MIRI, but after a while it became clear that I could contribute more by simply donating. So my goal became: find the highest paying job, so I can donate lots of money to CFAR and MIRI. A little bit of background on me. Started programming in 2000. Graduated in 2009 with Bachelor's in computer science. Worked for about a year and a half at a game company. Then did my own game startup for about a year. Then moved to the bay area and joined a game startup here, which was acquired 10 months later. Worked a bit at the new company and then left. So, just under four years of professional programming experience, but primarily in the game industry. Almost no leadership / managerial experience, aside from the startup I did where I hired freelancers. Below is my experience of finding a software engineering job in the Silicon Valley. If you are not an engineer or not in the Silicon Valley, I think you'll still find a lot of useful information here. Pre-game Before sending out my resume, I spent about a month preparing. I read Intro to Algorithms, which was very good overall, but not a huge help in preparing for interviews.[1] I read Cracking the Coding Interview, which was extremely helpful. (If you read only one book to prepare, make it this one.) The book has a lot of questions that are similar to the ones you'll actually see during interviews. I also did TopCoder problems, which were pretty helpful as well.[2] Looking back, I wish I spent more time finding actual interview questions online and doing more of those (that's why CCI book was so helpful). After several weeks of preparation, I compiled a long list of companies I was going to apply to. I checked on GlassDoor to see what kind of salary I could expect at each one. I then rated all the companies. Companies with low salaries and poor personal fit received the lowest rating. I started by applying to companies with the lowest ratings. This way I could use them as practice for the companies I thought would actually make a competitive offer. This was the right move and worked very well. (Another friend of mine did the same approach with good results as well.) Remember, you are not just doing those interviews to practice the coding problems, you are practicing pitching yourself as well. Interviewing with a company Standard procedure for applying to a tech company: 1. Send them your resume. Proofread your resume. Let your friends proofread it. Make sure there are only relevant things on it. When I applied to tech companies, I removed a lot of game-specific things from my resume. When I applied to companies that did 3D graphics, I made sure I had all my 3D graphics experience listed. I ended up with two version of my resume. Have your resume in DOC, PDF, and TXT formats. This way you'll always have the right one when you upload / paste it. For a few companies, I had a friend or friend of a friend who referred me. This REALLY HELPS in two ways: 1) your resume will be processed a lot faster, 2) if your friend is a great engineer/employee, you'll be taken a lot more seriously, and the company will fight for you a lot harder. 2. You'll get an email from the recruiter and setup a time to speak, where you'll talk about yourself, what you've done, why you are interested in their company, and so on. You can and should ask them questions as well. When you start getting multiple calls each day, make sure you know who is calling. There is nothing worse than talking about the challenges of streaming music to a car sharing startup. (True story.) Read about the company on Wikipedia before the call. Know the basic stuff. L...
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with ExxonMobil innovation leaders Ben Kennett and Rich Copsey. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Ben's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hunter-kennett-0aba4322/ Rich's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/copsey/ More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on Social LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN Events Get notified each month Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Tom McDonald, author of Paving the Way – Innovation, Talent and the Path Forward. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Paving-Way-Innovation-Talent-Forward/dp/B096TNXDSH Tom McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommcdonaldhouston Sherlock Resources: http://www.sherlockresources.com More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on Social LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN Events Get notified each month Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Akash Sharma, Director of Product Management for Enverus. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Akash Sharma – https://www.linkedin.com/in/aksharma92/ Enverus – https://www.enverus.com/ Blog – https://www.enverus.com/topic/business-automation/market-price-indices-compare-your-prices-to-basin-trends-for-more-cost-efficient-operations/ More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on Social LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN Events Get notified each month Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn
Welcome back to another episode of the Oil & Gas Tech Podcast. This week, our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Clinton Bonner from Topcoder. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Cognite – helping you make data do more. Learn more at https://makedatadomore.cognite.com Also be sure to check out Michael's other show Oil & Gas Digital Doers — a podcast about getting digital done. Stories and guidance from real people making real progress. Clinton Bonner — https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonbonner/ Topcoder — https://www.topcoder.com/how-it-works/ More Oil and Gas Global Network PodcastsOGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street TeamLinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on SocialLinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN EventsGet notified each month Michael O'SullivanLinkedIn
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Shruti Bansal, Principal Product Manager at Kpler. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Shruti Bansal – https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutibnsl/ Kpler – https://www.kpler.com More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on Social LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN Events Get notified each month Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Texas Quality Assurance CEO and founder Kyle Chambers. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Kyle Chambers – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-chambers-tqa/ Texas Quality Assurance – https://www.texasqa.com Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Accenture's Neil Christianson. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Neil Christianson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilperrychristianson/ Accenture Oil and Gas – https://www.accenture.com/us-en/industries/energy-index Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with BP's Tom Inglis and IBM's Jerry Lewis about cloud strategies for large-scale digital. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Tom Inglis, VP Global Compute Platforms @ BPhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-inglis-86a3892/ Jerry Lewis, Executive Partner, Enterprise Strategy & IX @ IBMhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrywilliamlewis/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Corva CEO Ryan Dawson. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Ryan Dawson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-dawson-605a812/ Corva – https://www.corva.ai/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with NVIDIA energy leader and long-time industry veteran Marc Spieler. Brought to you by on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Topcoder — the original pioneer in open talent models. Learn more at https://topcoder.com. Marc Spieler – https://www.linkedin.com/in/spieler/ NVIDIA Energy Industry – https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/energy/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with William Fox, Chief Product Officer at Data Gumbo. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models William Fox – https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-fox-a388384a/ Data Gumbo – https://www.datagumbo.com/ Andrew Bruce's Blog – https://blog.datagumbo.com/en/gumbonet-blog/author/andrew-bruce Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts OGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts Street Team LinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with industry veteran Carolina Torres who talks her years leading digital at BP and how she brings that goodness to others through her role at Cognite. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models Carolina Torres – https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinatorres88/ Cognite – https://www.cognite.com/en/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with JoAnn Meyer from Previse Consulting. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models JoAnn's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/joann-meyer-previse/ Previse Consulting – https://previseconsulting.com Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with David Reid from NOV. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models David Reid – https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidred/ NOV – https://www.nov.com/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with Reishin Toolsi from Databricks. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models Reishin Toolsi – https://www.linkedin.com/in/reishin/ Databricks – https://databricks.com/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks with George Danner from Valedor Partners. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models George Danner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-danner/https://georgedanner.com/ Valedor Partners — https://www.valedorpartners.com/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks Amod Manjrekar. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models Amod Manjrekar – https://www.linkedin.com/in/amodmanjrekar/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Onshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan talks Clinton Bonner from Topcoder. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models Clinton Bonner – https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonbonner/ Connect with OGGN Interested in sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Legal Risk | Oil and Gas Onshore | Oil and Gas Offshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Welcome to the Oil & Gas Digital Doers Podcast — brought to you by Topcoder on the Oil and Gas Global Network. In this episode our host Michael O'Sullivan kicks off this brand new show about oil and gas leaders who are moving forward and achieving business value from their digital transformation efforts. Links: Our sponsor Topcoder – https://topcoder.com – the original pioneer in open talent models Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson. More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Legal Risk | Oil and Gas Onshore | Oil and Gas Offshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective| Oil and Gas Elevate Podcast Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Michael O'Sullivan LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
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In this episode Barry and Eleanor Matthews meet 2 of the people who make the gig economy possible; the talent providing the services. They are joined by Joanna Hulks and Alexander Chekspir who both provide services in the human cloud, but in completely different ways. Jo works on the Limitless gigCX platform www.limitlesstech.com answering text based customer queries in her spare time while bringing up a young baby and Alex works on the Topcoder platform www.topcoder.com and has been taking part in and winning software challenges since he was at University. They discuss the work they do, how they got into the gig economy and the benefits of being able to choose where and when they work; including in-between 3am baby feeding or on a beach in Brazil with a beer. Barry and Eleanor also discuss their introduction to the new social media app Clubhouse and pledge to start a new How The Future Works room – watch this space!
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Dave Messinger is the Chief Technologist at Topcoder, where he is in charge of all crowdsourcing products and technology. He is responsible for the platform and overall community development methodology.Prior to his current role, Dave spent seven years as Topcoder's Chief Architect, during which time he oversaw the platform, community growth, and component-based methodology.TopcoderRed HatVelocity Network Foundation BlockchainCryptocurrencyMike MorrisClinton BonnerThese are two companies that verify self sovereign identities:evernym.comhttps://trinsic.id/POC: Proof Of ConceptSME: Subject Matter ExpertTalent as the ServiceBrian Flemming, Senior VP Product & Technology, T-MobilePaul Hlivko, Chief Experience Officer & Chief Technology Officer , WellmarkSajeev Nair, Head of Global ADM, Zurich InsuranceKarim Lakhani, Harvard Business SchoolCo-pilot: a Topcoder member who serves as a tech lead to support clients on the Topcoder platformBug Bashers: what Topcoder calls members who come to solve problems and fix bugs on demandCircle-CI is the vendor we use for our continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform we use at Topcoder for DevOpsAdam Sandlin, Head of Worldwide Go-To-Market & Customer Success, TopcoderDean Bosche, Head of Channel Development, VirtasantTim Prohm, VP Digital Product Development, KellyOCGTCO: Topcoder Open
A new Episode of the Serie "Artificial Intelligence for Exponential Business" in the unique AI Chanel of Trust by AI Exponential Thinker. Our Guest is the remarkable Prof Karim R. Lakhani at Harvard Business School. He has pioneered the use of field experiments to help solve innovation-related challenges while simultaneously generating rigorous research in partnership with organizations like NASA, Harvard Medical School, The Broad Institute, TopCoder, The Linux Foundation and various private organizations. He is the Co-Author of the Book "Competing in the Age of AI" that was recommended by Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft. His thesis director is the MIT professor Eric von Hippel known by his research on Innovation and technologies. Dr. Lobna Karoui is pleased to welcome Professor Lakhani in this episode "AI for Exponential Business". Dr. Lobna Karoui is an AI Strategy Growth Builder and Exponential Digital Transformer for Fortune 500 & CAC40 with two decades experience in building AI products and services for millions of users. She is the president of AI Exponential thinker with a target to inspire and empower 1 Million young boys and girls, horizon 2025, about Trust Technologies and AI Opportunities. She is an international Speaker and interviewer recognized as an AI Expert by Forbes, Bloomberg and MIT. Follow us and subscribe www.aiexponentialthinker.com, linkedin, Facebook and Instagram or via contact@aiexponentialthinker.com to interact with our Guests, meet great speakers and mentors from great companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple, SpaceX and more...
This week Barry and Eleanor Matthews share a virtual glass of wine and chat all things crowdsourcing, competitions and challenges with the amazing George Gallant from Topcoder The conversation covers the latest news in Open Talent as well as how crowdsourcing challenges work, why companies are choosing them as a delivery method, who the challengers are and how they deliver value George shares anecdotes, examples and stories to really bring the crowdsourcing challenge model to life. He shares the parallels of crowdsourcing to cloudsourcing a decade ago and how once clients start the journey how rapidly they become hooked – he also shares how a certain very famous and successful business leader was once a member of the Topcoder crowd! George also shares his first job and worst job and provides fascinating insight and anecdotes to really bring the world of crowdsourcing to life
In this episode, Justin sits down with Clinton Bonner to discuss how TopCoder has successfully implemented technology to help take companies like NASA and Anadarko to the next level. Clinton also talks about growing up in New York and his unexpected love for the Seattle Seahawks. Before we get going I want to highlight some fascinating technology provided by our sponsor, TechnipFMC. TechnipFMC's FracNow™ #ecosystem leverages #flexible pipe, automation and advanced #digital technology to deliver greater operational efficiency. Increased uptime, lower Non-Productive Time, remote operations, access to automation and real-time data logging are just a few of the benefits. Find out more by clicking the link here: https://lnkd.in/dX4JPZa #FracNow LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonbonner/ Website link: https://www.topcoder.com/ TechnipFMC Giveaway https://mailchi.mp/924e93a58386/technipfmc Ogio Dome duffle bag Yeti 20 oz purple tumbler Executive power bank Columbia neck gator AcePods 2.0 - True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Bluetooth Ear Buds Events HACK n WHACK: Anyone in the Houston area interested in playing oilfield hockey? Come join the Hack n Whack crew for some old timer hockey. We do it every two weeks at Memorial City Mall ice rink. Hit me up on LinkedIn for more details. Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Street Team If you're interested in joining the street team, join our Facebook Group here. Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring?? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson (Savannah.Wilson@oggn.com). More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Legal Risk | Oil and Gas Onshore | Oil and Gas Offshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Connect with Justin Gautier LinkedIn | E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
In this episode, Justin sits down with Clinton Bonner to discuss how TopCoder has successfully implemented technology to help take companies like NASA and Anadarko to the next level. Clinton also talks about growing up in New York and his unexpected love for the Seattle Seahawks. Before we get going I want to highlight some fascinating technology provided by our sponsor, TechnipFMC. TechnipFMC’s FracNow™ #ecosystem leverages #flexible pipe, automation and advanced #digital technology to deliver greater operational efficiency. Increased uptime, lower Non-Productive Time, remote operations, access to automation and real-time data logging are just a few of the benefits. Find out more by clicking the link here: https://lnkd.in/dX4JPZa #FracNow LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonbonner/ Website link: https://www.topcoder.com/ TechnipFMC Giveaway https://mailchi.mp/924e93a58386/technipfmc Ogio Dome duffle bag Yeti 20 oz purple tumbler Executive power bank Columbia neck gator AcePods 2.0 - True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Bluetooth Ear Buds Events HACK n WHACK: Anyone in the Houston area interested in playing oilfield hockey? Come join the Hack n Whack crew for some old timer hockey. We do it every two weeks at Memorial City Mall ice rink. Hit me up on LinkedIn for more details. Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Street Team If you're interested in joining the street team, join our Facebook Group here. Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring?? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson (Savannah.Wilson@oggn.com). More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Legal Risk | Oil and Gas Onshore | Oil and Gas Offshore | PITCH Podcast |Oil and Gas Tech Podcast | Women Offshore Podcast | Permian Perspective Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Connect with Justin Gautier LinkedIn | E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network
Topcoder is a one of the world's leading platforms with a network of 1.5 million designers, developers, data scientists, and testers from around the globe that help Topcoder customers solve real-world problems. Topcoder's list of clients is impressive and a few names you'll recognize are T-Mobile, Zurich Insurance and Wellmark.For some, on-demand talent, crowdsourcing and the open economy are a new way of doing things, but Topcoder was founded way back in 2001 and essentially paved the way to where we are today. I met Mike a few years ago at an event at the Harvard Business School and he never ceases to amaze me. In this episode we dive into a bit of history on Topcoder, where they are today and where they are headed in the future. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder.
CosmiQ’s Jake Shermeyer and Daniel Hogan are joined by Capella Space’s Jason Brown and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing’s (GRSS) Ronny Hänsch to once again discuss the SpaceNet 6 Dataset and post-challenge experiments. Learn more about data fusion and deep learning approaches that work to blend synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical imagery. Additionally, the podcast also explores the value of frequent SAR revisits that can be beneficial for foundational mapping applications. Finally, the group discusses CosmiQ’s new addition to the Solaris python package: a multi-modal pre-processing library and a new API called ‘PipeSegment’ for seamlessly stringing together different operations.SpaceNet is a nonprofit made possible by co-founder and managing partner, CosmiQ Works; co-founder and co-chair, Maxar Technologies; and all the other Partners: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Capella Space, Topcoder, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRSS), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Planet.
Today's podcast is an interview with Clinton Bonner, the VP of marketing at Topcoder. A global coding crowdsourcing platform, Topcoder connects businesses to a worldwide resource of coding expertise to help them develop software and technology. We'll be discussing crowdsourcing, the value it presents, and Topcoder's place in the oil and gas sector. Duration: 37m 04s
SpaceNet is a non-profit dedicated to accelerating open source, applied research in geospatial machine learning. In this episode, CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis, Jake Shermeyer, and Daniel Hogan discuss the SpaceNet 6 Challenge where participants were asked to automatically extract building footprints with computer vision and AI algorithms using a combination of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and electro-optical imagery. Hear about the challenge’s winning artificial intelligence models and the tradeoff between inference speed and model performance. SpaceNet is made possible by co-founder and managing partner, CosmiQ Works; co-founder and co-chair, Maxar Technologies; and all the other Partners: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Capella Space, Topcoder, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRSS), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Planet.Learn more at www.spacenet.ai, and at the DownLinQ (https://medium.com/the-downlinq)
Interview with Andy LaMora, Global Director of Data, Analytics and AI at Topcoder
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Prasanna Sankar is the co-founder and CTO of Rippling, where he's scaling the engineering team across two continents. Previously he was Director of Engineering at Zenefits, and co-founder and CTO of LikeALittle, a social media app that attracted two million users in six weeks. Prasanna is a former competitive programmer and was ranked #1 in India on TopCoder. Today he codes for fun, and lives in the Bay Area with his wife and son.
Joey and Alan talk this week with the Dave Messinger, Chief Technical Office of Topcoder, about the gifts and challenges of technology and the gig economy during the time of COVID-19, tips for maintaining a work/life balance while working from home, and Zoom fatigue.
Despite its application to myriad humanitarian and civil use cases, automated road network extraction from overhead satellite imagery remains quite challenging. However, the SpaceNet 5 challenge made significant progress in this field with top participants being able to extract both road networks and speed/travel time estimates for each roadway. On today’s pod, CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Dr. Adam Van Etten explore the challenge’s unique dataset and geographic diversity over time, the winning models, and the tradeoff between inference speed and model performance. SpaceNet is a non-profit LLC co-founded and managed by In-Q-Tel's CosmiQ Works in collaboration Maxar Technologies, a co-founder, and the other SpaceNet Partners including AWS, Intel AI, Topcoder, Capella Space, IEEE GRSS, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and Planet.
Episode 66: We spoke with Mike Morris, CEO at Topcoder, a crowdsourcing company with a global community of designers, developers, data scientists, and competitive programmers. We discuss how to cultivate a community, the benefits of crowdsourcing, how soon until we see quantum computing at scale, and why Mike believes the gig/passion economy is the future of work. Enjoy! Also, a quick programming note: We’ll be taking a few weeks off from TechieBytes, but fear not, we’ll be back soon with more awesome interviews. So stay tuned and stay safe out there! We’re looking for new podcast sponsors, if you’re interested in sponsoring TechieBytes, please get in touch. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/besttechie/support
In this interview, we have the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Lewis, Senior Vice President at CosmiQ Works. Ryan gives us an update about the current SpaceNet Challenge, projects at CosmiQ Works, and gives us an insightful discussion about the geospatial industry. Listen in and check out the details. CosmiQ website: www.cosmiqworks.org describes all of our projects, etc. SpaceNet website: www.spacenet.ai data download links SpaceNet 6 TopCoder landing page: www.topcoder.com/spacenet About SpaceNet SpaceNet, launched in August 2016 as an open innovation project offering a repository of freely available imagery with co-registered map features. Before SpaceNet, computer vision researchers had minimal options to obtain free, precision-labeled and high-resolution satellite imagery. Today, SpaceNet hosts datasets developed by its own team, along with data sets from projects like IARPA’s Functional Map of the World (fMoW). About CosmiQ Works Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works is an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open-source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates the development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.” About Us Project Geospatial is a podcast hosted by Adam Simmons and Mason Rothman dedicated to increasing awareness of Geospatial Technology, education resources, and industry best practices. Our show is comprised of industry professionals who discuss diverse topics such as new geospatial projects, innovations, and resources that benefit the overall community. If you are an industry professional reach out to us, we’d love to hear your feedback or have you on the show. Listen in and check us out at projectgeospatial.com Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening!
The coronavirus forces almost all organizations to work remotely, but many are new to the game and struggle to manage a remote workforce. This is why Glenn Gaudet sat down with Clinton Bonner, VP of Marketing at Topcoder, an on-demand virtual talent platform, for this episode of AMP Up Your Digital Marketing. Topcoder has been in business for about 20 years but has been a 100% remote workforce for over 8 years. Bonner shared his tips for leading a successful remote workforce and how he operates Topcoder’s marketing strategy. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why it’s important to stay up to date on what productivity tools are out there. Collaborative tool recommendations for remote workers. The pros and cons of mixing tools rather than having one centralized platform.
In this episode of Inside Access Control, I catch up with Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder. Topcoder was launched in 2001 and set out to answer two questions. 1. Could they create a transparent and reputable rating system for developers akin to the famous ranking method used in the world of chess? 2. Could enterprises access these developers on demand to simplify and speed the way they got digital work done? With the recent crisis and everyone working for home, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with someone who has been working like this for a long time and also runs a platform of over 1.5 million member developers, designers, data scientists, and engineers working around the globe every day. We also knew he'd have great insights and advice on how to set your company up for success and discuss what metrics matter now.
Episode 63: We spoke with Karim Lakhani, Professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of the new book: Competing In The Age of AI. We discuss how AI is disrupting all kinds of businesses, how companies should think about implementing AI, and the rise of the AI factory. Enjoy! More about Karim Karim Lakhani is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. He specializes in technology management and innovation. His research examines crowd-based innovation models and the digital transformation of companies and industries. Lakhani is known for his pioneering scholarship on how communities and contests can be designed and managed to achieve innovative outcomes. He has partnered with NASA, Topcoder, and the Harvard Medical School to conduct field experiments on the design of crowd innovation programs. His research on digital transformation has shown the importance of data and analytics as drivers of business and operating model transformation and source of competitive advantage. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and Local Motors. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/besttechie/support
In this interview, we have the pleasure of interviewing Nick Weir, Senior Data Scientist at CosmiQ and Challenge Manager at SpaceNet LLC. Nick gives us an update about the current SpaceNet Challenge, goes into how challenge tasks are selected and gets into a deeper discussion about the geospatial industry. Watch the show and check it out. CosmiQ website: www.cosmiqworks.org describes all of our projects, etc. SpaceNet website: www.spacenet.ai data download links SpaceNet 6 TopCoder landing page: www.topcoder.com/spacenet SpaceNet GitHub org, which contains all of the open-source solutions from past challenges: github.com/spacenetchallenge CosmiQ’s Solaris GitHub page: www.github.com/cosmiq/solaris About SpaceNet SpaceNet, launched in August 2016 as an open innovation project offering a repository of freely available imagery with co-registered map features. Before SpaceNet, computer vision researchers had minimal options to obtain free, precision-labeled and high-resolution satellite imagery. Today, SpaceNet hosts datasets developed by its own team, along with data sets from projects like IARPA’s Functional Map of the World (fMoW). About CosmiQ Works Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works is an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open-source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates the development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.” About Us Project Geospatial is a podcast hosted by Adam Simmons and Mason Rothman dedicated to increasing awareness of Geospatial Technology, education resources, and industry best practices. Our show is comprised of industry professionals who discuss diverse topics such as new geospatial projects, innovations, and resources that benefit the overall community. If you are an industry professional reach out to us, we’d love to hear your feedback or have you on the show. Listen in and check us out at projectgeospatial.com Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this segment, Adam Simmons Interviews Jake Shermeyer, Research Scientist at CosmiQ Works. The discussion is focused around the upcoming SpaceNet 6 Challenge, SAR Datasets used, and Jakes's perspective on current imagery technology. SpaceNet LLC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, artificial intelligence applied research for geospatial applications, specifically foundational mapping (i.e. building footprint & road network detection). SpaceNet is run in collaboration with CosmiQ Works, Maxar Technologies, Intel AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Capella Space, Topcoder, and IEEE GRSS. Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Spanning three years of featuring five unique datasets and challenges, SpaceNet® continues to apply various aspects of machine learning to solve difficult foundational mapping problems. Looking ahead, Payam Banazadeh, Founder & CEO of Capella Space, joins IQT CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Jake Shermeyer to discuss the SpaceNet 6 Challenge which explores an under-explored modality of data: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The trio provide an overview on the importance of SAR data and its value in the upcoming challenge. SpaceNet is a collaboration between CosmiQ Works, Maxar Technologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel AI, Capella Space, Topcoder, and IEEE GRSS. Space Club Rule 42: When In Doubt, Use SAR.
In Episode 16, I interview the CEO of #Topcoder and Global Head of Crowdsourcing for IT-services leader Wipro, Michael Morris. Topcoder is the world’s largest technology network and on-demand digital talent platform with a global community of 1.5M+ design, development, and data science experts. Mike has served in leadership roles at Topcoder since 2002. A gig economy expert, he speaks worldwide about cultivating a passionate workforce to drive the transformative nature of digital innovation across every industry imaginable.Previously a GM|SVP at Appirio, Mike led its crowdsource offering (Cloudspokes) through the acquisition of Topcoder, and then managed customer, sales and services teams to solidify the Topcoder brand as the largest open workforce provider in the world. He was an integral part of Topcoder becoming a Wipro company through the acquisition of Appirio in 2016.An active Boston College alumnus; guest lecturer at institutions like Harvard University, MIT, New York University and the University of California Berkeley; and an engineer at heart, Mike continues to lead the open workforce revolution by empowering organizations with limitless software development possibilities and unprecedented access to Topcoder’s talented multinational technologists.Please enjoy this episode.If you like Gigging: Everything and the Sharing Economy, you might like my other podcasts, Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare and Career Coaching Xs and Os. Please check out some of my other podcasts:1. Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare - Interviews with Startup Executives and Influencers. https://www.spreaker.com/show/guerrillapreneur-podcast 2. Career Coaching Xs and Os - Career Advice for Executives who want the corner office. https://www.spreaker.com/user/5249131/ep-19-7-things-to-consider-before-re-hirNeed help developing a business pitch for your startup or small business? Check out my online course "How To Develop A Winning Business Pitch" https://ceyero-consulting-eschool.thinkific.com/courses/how-to-develop-a-winning-business-pitch. The course is only $39.00.If you want to continue the conversation, follow me on Twitter @GiggingAnd or @ceyeroconsltg. Please subscribe, comment and like the show. It will make me happy. Thank you for being the best audience in the world. Give me the gift of "sharing" by sharing this podcast with your friends. If you share this podcast with 10 friends, I will get my wings!
In Episode 16, I interview the CEO of #Topcoder and Global Head of Crowdsourcing for IT-services leader Wipro, Michael Morris. Topcoder is the world’s largest technology network and on-demand digital talent platform with a global community of 1.5M+ design, development, and data science experts. Mike has served in leadership roles at Topcoder since 2002. A gig economy expert, he speaks worldwide about cultivating a passionate workforce to drive the transformative nature of digital innovation across every industry imaginable.Previously a GM|SVP at Appirio, Mike led its crowdsource offering (Cloudspokes) through the acquisition of Topcoder, and then managed customer, sales and services teams to solidify the Topcoder brand as the largest open workforce provider in the world. He was an integral part of Topcoder becoming a Wipro company through the acquisition of Appirio in 2016.An active Boston College alumnus; guest lecturer at institutions like Harvard University, MIT, New York University and the University of California Berkeley; and an engineer at heart, Mike continues to lead the open workforce revolution by empowering organizations with limitless software development possibilities and unprecedented access to Topcoder’s talented multinational technologists.Please enjoy this episode.If you like Gigging: Everything and the Sharing Economy, you might like my other podcasts, Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare and Career Coaching Xs and Os. Please check out some of my other podcasts:1. Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare - Interviews with Startup Executives and Influencers. https://www.spreaker.com/show/guerrillapreneur-podcast 2. Career Coaching Xs and Os - Career Advice for Executives who want the corner office. https://www.spreaker.com/user/5249131/ep-19-7-things-to-consider-before-re-hirNeed help developing a business pitch for your startup or small business? Check out my online course "How To Develop A Winning Business Pitch" https://ceyero-consulting-eschool.thinkific.com/courses/how-to-develop-a-winning-business-pitch. The course is only $39.00.If you want to continue the conversation, follow me on Twitter @GiggingAnd or @ceyeroconsltg. Please subscribe, comment and like the show. It will make me happy. Thank you for being the best audience in the world. Give me the gift of "sharing" by sharing this podcast with your friends. If you share this podcast with 10 friends, I will get my wings!
Recorded LIVE at the TopCoder Open 2019 in Houston, Texas! Topcoder’s Global Director for Data, Analytics, & Artiificial Intelligence, Andy LaMora, and General Manager for Public Sector, Michael Contreras, join IQT CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Adam Van Etten at the Topcoder Open 2019, the annual programming and design tournament that took place on November 13 -16, 2019. Learn how Topcoder has evolved over the past almost 20 years, including their involvement with SpaceNet 5 which challenged participants to automatically extract road networks and routing information from satellite imagery.
What does it take to build a business driven by 1.5M+ design, development and data science experts from every country in the world? In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we feature the business story of Mike Morris and how his team developed the world's largest technology network and on-demand digital talent platform. Transparent about key learnings over seventeen years of preparation, scaling, acquisition and dedication to measurement, Mike provides honest insight into his world and that of the talented individuals who are a part of Topcoder's global community. A gig economy expert, Mike speaks worldwide about cultivating a passionate workforce to drive the transformative nature of digital innovation across every industry imaginable. He believes that when workers have better experiences that businesses have better results and he is an advocate for women in STEM. An active Boston College alumnus; guest lecturer at institutions like Harvard University, MIT, New York University and University of California Berkeley; and an engineer at heart, Mike continues to lead the open workforce revolution by empowering organizations with limitless software development possibilities and unprecedented access to Topcoder's talented multinational technologists. Mike Morris is the CEO of www.Topcoder.com and Global Head of Crowdsourcing for IT-services leader Wipro. Second only to his commitment to family—and perhaps waterskiing—Mike has served in leadership roles at Topcoder since 2002. Previously a GM|SVP at Appiro, Mike led its crowdsource offering (Cloudspokes) through the acquisition of Topcoder, and then managed customer, sales and services teams to solidify the Topcoder brand as the largest open workforce provider in the world. He was an integral part of Topcoder becoming a Wipro company through the acquisition of Appirio in 2016. Connect to Mike on Twitter @topcoder @mpmorris36 and via #LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/topcodermike/ Disruptive CEO Nation is searching the globe to introduce you to cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs whose stories will inspire you to innovate in your own business life. Your host is Allison K. Summers. Having worked with and coached CEO's and senior leaders from over 90 countries, Allison is taking her experiences to help today's CEO's and professionals meet the ever-changing demands of the future of work. Connect with Allison on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/. If you would like to be a guest or recommend a great company founder or business influencer write Connect@AllisonKSummers.com #Topcoder #datascience #technology #gigeconomy #opentalent #Futureofwork #Entrepreneur #Founder #Business #motivationalspeaker #Success #Leadership #Influence #Passport #DisruptiveCEONation #podcast #businesspodcast #startup #startuplife #startupstory #businessowner #businessstory #BostonCollege #WomeninSTEM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The #AI Eye: Humana (NYSE: $HUM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: $MSFT) Partner to Build Health Solutions, Wipro's (NYSE: $WIT) Topcoder Adds Data Science and AI Features to Platform
The #AI Eye: Humana (NYSE: $HUM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: $MSFT) Partner to Build Health Solutions, Wipro's (NYSE: $WIT) Topcoder Adds Data Science and AI Features to Platform
The #AI Eye: Humana (NYSE: $HUM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: $MSFT) Partner to Build Health Solutions, Wipro's (NYSE: $WIT) Topcoder Adds Data Science and AI Features to Platform
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Crowdsourcing community Topcoder head, Mike Morris, talks the top DevOps myth and how government enterprises can overcome it to create a DevOps-focused culture.
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STEVE: Welcome, everyone. Today I have a very special guest. I'm very excited. I actually have only met her only two weeks ago. It was pretty cool actually. I felt an immediate connection. Anyway, this is Jennifer Goodwin. How you doing? JEN: Good. How are you? STEVE: Fantastic. I'm doing really, really well. I was scrolling through Facebook, it was about two weeks ago, and ... I don't know if I've told you this yet, but I was scrolling through Facebook, and I saw an ad that you had out. It was ad for vets. I can't remember exactly what the ad was saying, but it said something like, "Hey, here is a way for vets to launch their businesses online." I immediately was like, "Whoa, this is so cool. Someone's going for this market?" I didn't know anyone who's been going for that. It's such a needed thing, being in the military myself. How did you even get into that? JEN: Absolutely. I grew up very patriotic. I didn't realize until this year that the veterans were my ideal client. How it happened was, I was always trying to help veterans that were, military guys and gals that needed help with the internet marketing and getting themselves to the next level. Most recently, I was volunteering at a local homeless veteran shelter where some guys and gals were in transition. I said ... Well, a little back story. Three years ago I was on a motorcycle, my first ride, and I was life-flighted off the highway. STEVE: Oh, my gosh. Three years ago? JEN: Three years ago. Twenty-five, 30 minutes into my first ride with a friend on Highway 95. We were set at 70 miles per hour. Road debris came out of everywhere. An 18-wheeler had blown his tire, and we couldn't avoid one of the pieces. It flattened the back tire. Needless to say, I took a nice, pricey helicopter ride to the trauma center, so I actually lost my business. I was down for a lot of time. Financially, physically, emotionally, I had to go through that trauma. I had a lot of time to think through in recovery, and I made a few decisions about my business when I got back to it, which I really just got back to it full-time this past January. I decided that I was going to partner with the right people and never sit on my ideas and make sure that I was launching all the things that I had written down in a book and that were collecting dust. One of the other pieces was that I was going to give back. Even though I was sort of starting over, I knew what I was doing. I had 15 years in the business. I was relaunching, but I still wanted volunteering and giving back to be part of that. I was literally driving to a veteran center in Jacksonville, Florida and just camping out in the chow hall every Thursday and saying, "Whatever you have, just bring it to me. Just bring me your website needs. Bring me your resume needs. You got a new computer and you need to know how to run it? Just bring it to me." Even some of the staff there who weren't veterans would say, "Hey, I'm going for this other job interview," and so I just made myself available every Thursday. It didn't feel like work. Then fast forward a couple months. A friend of mine that's pretty well-known in the veteran space, he's on the History Channel and got quite a following on social media, said, "I've got four veterans that need, like, yesterday." Just working through those clients, it just didn't feel like work. It just felt so easy, because they're so loyal. They're so grateful. Usually what they're inventing, we're writing about, is something I believe in, so I re-branded my business to be all about serving veterans. STEVE: That's incredible. I love that. I've noticed that a lot of the people that I interview, they never ask permission to go do something like that. You just showed up. You just sit down and every Thursday ... How long did you do that before you went to that re-brand? JEN: I only did that for a couple months, because I actually ended up moving out of the area and haven't found a new local shelter to go help with. Let me see. I believe I started ... January, February, March. Probably about two and a half months into that I re-branded. I was also talking with some coaches. Actually, one of the coaches I was speaking with, a female coach, she was a veteran ... or she is a veteran. She said, "Jen, I got my start helping my fellow Army soldiers, starting their businesses when they got out." I said, "This is my ideal client, the more I think about it." I said, "Is it that easy?" She said, "Yeah." Literally, within 24 hours ... I couldn't even wait to re-brand everything. I went to the team and to the social media images, and I started changing it all up. The first batch was a little bit rough and amateur. I just wanted to get camouflage in there. STEVE: Yeah. Yeah. JEN: That's probably one of the ones you saw or maybe one of the newer ones. Yeah, it was pretty quick. STEVE: Yeah. That's incredible. It's interesting that that's the way it worked out. I remember when I went through basic ... I'm obviously business-minded. I really enjoy it. It's my obsession a little bit. I was going through basic training, and it's hard at certain points. One of the things that kept me going mentally and emotionally was talking about business ideas with all these other guys. I ended up having it, and all these guys that would sit around, and we would just talk about some different strategies. To this day, I still talk to some of them, and they're trying to do business stuff. It's definitely clearly an awesome market. A lot of them are go-getters. Anyways, that's super cool. That's fantastic. JEN: Yep. STEVE: One of the things I've noticed too, though, is that immediately ... You were doing the same thing with me. I was blown away with that, "Hey, do you need help with this? Do you have VAs for this? I have teams for this." You are an absolute master with VAs. How did you get that way? JEN: Thank you for saying that. I love helping people. They ask me, what's my agenda sometimes, very few, but I say, "I just like getting a break from the paying clients, who are so demanding." It's like a break to just pull away and just go help people for free with no expectations, so thank you for that. I have been an entrepreneur my whole life. My father was an entrepreneur, made some money in the door and window business. Very early on ... Well, not too early. I guess my late 20's, because I went and got an architectural degree, a drafting degree, from 26 to 28, but as soon as I came out of that, I worked for someone else for six months, and that was it. I had worked for people previously, from 16 to 28, but I knew at that moment I did not want to work for somebody else, and I couldn't work for somebody else. It just felt like my soul was in jail. STEVE: Yeah. I like that. JEN: I left the corporate world, and I was working for an engineering company, and I co-advertised. I didn't even think you could do this, but I rented an exhibitor space at the kitchen and bath show in Orlando, Florida, way back when, and shared it with one of my competitors. I was turning away 95% of my lead. I was so lucky, because what I was providing was CAD drawings and artist renderings to interior designers and kitchen designers. They didn't have anybody that was serving them. Usually people that were drafts people were going to work for architects and engineers, and so the designer industry was left hanging. I filled that void. I was turning away so much business, I knew back then that I had to learn how to scale my business and learn how to use the software that was out there that was going to help me scale my business by leveraging the tools and the people. Very early on I started to outsource to other drafters and just caught the bug of outsourcing and marking up the work and being the middle man really. I was outsourcing right away. I ran with the CAD services for about four or five years. After teaching myself everything on the internet, everything that I could at that time ... The internet was much smaller then. STEVE: Yeah. JEN: It was easier to master. I re-branded into Internet Girl Friday, and I've been doing that ever since. Again, I did lose my business for about two and a half years, but I've been back at it now, and I have virtual assistants and developers. It's great, because in my mind that's the only way to scale your business, is to have a team to support you. That's what we're doing. STEVE: Yeah, and you clearly have that. It's so fascinating, though. I wish I could pull up the text real quick that you sent me. It was a long list of stuff that you were asking me if I needed help with. I was like, "Man, she's got the hook-ups." JEN: Yeah, I would say, if it touches the web, we can do it and mean it. People come to me and say, "Well ..." I have friends that, you know how the friends and family never know what you're doing with the internet, and they don't get it. STEVE: Yeah. JEN: I have a friend that called me. I said, "Listen, I've got 20 minutes to talk. What's up?" He said, "Sounds like you're too busy and you can't take on my work." I said, "No, I have a team for that. I can do it. We can do it." I'm hiring people all the time. There's no shortage of people out there that want to work, whether they're US-based or they're offshore. There's hundreds of thousands of workers out there that ... You can go to Fiverr. You can go to so many different sites and get people to help you in your business, and I take advantage of that. STEVE: That's amazing. When I was in college, that's really when I started getting the bug for this. Well, that's when I started getting traction, I should say. I always had the bug. I went and I started hiring these different VAs. My buddy and I, we were building this Smartphone insurance business, and we went and we hired out this guy. He was just like, he wasn't very good. We paid him $500 to build this really small thing. It wasn't big at all, and we got it back and it was awful, like, "What the heck?" That's why I started using click funnels, so I could do it on my own. Then another time came up and another time came up. I was like, "Man, I'm really striking out with these VAs." I'm curious how it is that you actually go find good ones, because that's a skill in and of itself that I don't think people realize you need to have. Not all VAs obviously are built the same. What process are you taking up? What are you having them do? How are you vetting the VAs for your vets? JEN: There's a couple different ways. I hate to say this, but I don't like the big outsourcing sites. I think it's really hard to find that needle in the haystack, and you have to spend a lot of time sorting through people that are really just looking at the dollars per hour; right? They're like, "No, I can't make anything less than $8 an hour." They overbid. I just don't like those sites. I never had great luck with them ever. STEVE: That's totally the opposite than what everyone else says, so that's interesting. JEN: I've done it for 15 years. If I had an army of 100 virtual assistants, do you know how much money I'd be making? If it was that easy, I would have just hired a team of people from there, but I've spoken to people for 15 years from those big sites. What I find works for me is I enter a couple of virtual assistant groups on Facebook. Whenever I have a need for somebody, I post the job on my blog post, and I'll send a link out to the virtual assistant groups and say, "Hey, by the way, this week I'm looking to talk to people that have skills in ..." whatever skill I'm looking for that week. That's worked out well, because I only get a handful. I might get 10, 15, 20 applicants. It's totally manageable. I have a forum on the blog post. I'm not going to field emails or phone calls or be scattered. I want them to just dump their info into a form, and then I can go back and look at, and I can say, "All right. I'd love to talk to these three out of 10 on Skype," or somehow. They say, "Hire two and fire one." Try a couple people out just on a small ... I work through baby steps when it comes to hiring a virtual assistant. Let's take one tiny task, not, "Oh, I found you. Here's all my money. Here's all my tasks. Talk to you in a week." That will just go wrong every time. You want to start with, "Can you contact me on Skype," because that's a requirement. That's my office. If they tell me they don't have Skype, they're out. It's that simple. You have to work my way in my company with my tools. I'm flexible, but you have to show up in my time zone. You have to speak my language. We start at the very beginning and make sure that those pieces are there before moving on to, "Okay, here's how you get into my project management system, and here's where you find your first task." I work closely alongside them and say, "Stay with me right here on Skype. Tell me, 'Jennifer, I'm starting Task A right now, and I plan to be done in 15 minutes, and I'll ping you back when I'm done, so you can review it.'" It's really micromanaged in the first week. As you get more comfortable and as they're trained a little bit more, then they can work on their own time. I literally do that every morning for about two hours, Monday through Friday, from, roughly, 9 to 11 every day, which is a lot of time when you think about it. I'm also mentoring virtual assistants, so I'm not paying the ones that I mentor that I identify in the group as being really smart and might have come from 15, 20 years of past corporate experience, so they have skills. They just don't realize how to translate them to the internet. Again, I love helping people, so I say, "Come on in as an apprentice. You can follow along. You can invite your friends to sit in your house and watch. It doesn't matter." I've hired people from that group as well. STEVE: Wow. That's fascinating. If the person is good, they might have friends that are good. Might as well bring the friends along and train them too. JEN: Yeah. I tell them, "Listen, I'm looking to build teams, so if you already know someone ..." I had this conversation just last night with one of Filipino VAs. She's amazing. I said, "I'm about to hire a few more, so if you know anybody ..." She's like, "Well, actually, I do have three assistants, and they work in my house with me. It's my goal to help these single moms that need some more income to get going." I said, "Great. Let's ramp them up." Yeah. STEVE: Awesome. That's fantastic. That's amazing. Eventually, what started happening was I was like, man, I literally have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on VAs for stuff that was not very good work. I was not happy with it. I started going through, not the same process at all. That's genius. I'm going to have to ... That's absolutely incredible. I'm going to have to think more about that and try and figure out how I can do that too, or I'll just ask you, hire you to do it. Do you have a particular freelance or VA site, I guess, that you like more than others, Fiver, Freelancer, Upwork? JEN: I love Fiverr. Actually, this morning before this podcast, I was looking on Fiverr for a virtual assistant but only because in the virtual assistant groups that I'm in on Facebook, I saw someone saying, "I'm not getting any traction as a VA on Fiverr. What am I doing wrong?" I clicked on the link which took me to their Fiverr account, and I said, "I'm willing to try you out. Contact me on Skype." Again, that's my first requirement. I use Fiverr for other services. If my dev team is too busy with some bigger projects, and I need to knock out some quick keyword research or a quick image, I can go to Fiverr and I can find it. It's just like any other service where you can see the ratings, but for some reason they have, they've made their user interface so easy to navigate and quickly see, "Oh, wow, they've had 200 projects. They're five stars on all the reviews for all those projects. I'm pretty sure they're returning good work, and it's dollars." Who can't lose $5; right? We spend that on a coffee sometimes. It's different from going to the big sites like Upwork and saying, you have to put your whole job description. You have to say, this is 30 hours a month or 30 hours a week, whether it's permanent. They make you jump through so many hoops before you even find someone. Then you might get a thousand applicants, and you have to sort through all that. It's too much work, where you can go to Fiverr and just browse really quickly and click on someone. You don't even have to click on someone and contact them, but you can just put your mouse over their little portfolio image, and it shows you how many jobs, how many stars. Very quickly you can jump into having an assistant or a vendor. I know there's a lot of controversy with using offshore vendors versus keeping it in the USA, and I do keep most of my work, 99% of my work, in the USA. Even my Indian development team is in the USA, strangely. When you're restarting, which is the mode I'm in now after the accident, you need that payroll break; right? You want to have assistants so you can scale your business, but you can't go out and afford the $25-an-hour United States VA, so it does help to go offshore. I do like the Filipino virtual assistants. They are super-smart, super-talented. Their English is perfect. They are very friendly and very accommodating. There's no language barrier like I've experienced with other countries. They're extremely affordable. Here's a little trick that I've done. I've gone to Wikipedia and typed up, "Countries with the lowest hourly rate," and it's mind-blowing and scary that there's some countries or areas of their countries where 50-cents-per-hour is the minimum wage. STEVE: Oh, man. JEN: That's not saying you can just go there and find a virtual assistant. Virtual assistants have to be a booming industry in a certain country for it to be valuable to you, but the Philippines are great. STEVE: That's incredible. There's a workaround that I have found that helps. I did a whole podcast on this actually earlier, because it's a frustrating thing to go through. The biggest things I've learned from Russell, you got to have people. The biggest things I've learned from my own things, you've got to have people. Otherwise, you as the entrepreneur get bogged down. You can't handle all of the tasks. This is definitely valuable information to hear. There was a workaround that I, to using VAs that I was figuring out too. Do you use Freelancer.com much? JEN: I have, but, again, I didn't use it much. STEVE: Yeah. It's a little bit challenging. There was one feature that saved my butt on a lot of different things, and it was the fact that you can post contests. That's actually pretty cool. I needed all these different images made, or I needed a tee-shirt design. I basically said, "Hey, I really want to motivate people, so here's the prize is $100 and everyone submit your work. I'm just going to choose one guy." It was fantastic. I got 80 or 90 submissions, and the whole week during the contest, I could talk back to them and say, "This looks good but change this." "This looks good but change this." I could rate all of their work, which was public to everyone else. All the work, the freelancers started pushing towards a different path as they watched my comments to other people. That's really the only trick I have for VAs. I haven't done anything else that you do with it. It kind of works, but what you do is a lot cooler, actually. JEN: I don't know. The contests sound pretty cool. I remember seeing them on Topcoder years ago when I was looking to build a software, and someone said, "If you don't have unlimited budget to build the software, present it as a contest." I thought that was fascinating, where they have a contest for one part of the software and a contest for another part. Then they have a contest at the end to put all the parts together. I thought that was fascinating. STEVE: That's incredible. Hey, there's a lot of people obviously who are trying to get into this space who want to do what you're doing. I know you alluded to it before, but what would be the first step to getting a good VA? JEN: I would definitely check out the virtual assistant groups in Facebook. It's a close-knit community. People can vouch for other people. There's some names at the top that know a lot of the VAs in the industry, so they actually have requests for proposal boards that you could sign up to and submit your work. Then you know you're getting a qualified VA, or you can find me and I'll point you in the right direction. I would check sites like FreeeUp. That's with three E's, F-R-E-E-E-U-P.com. STEVE: I've never heard of it. Awesome. JEN: It's new. It's getting a face-lift. The site is only about eight months old, I think. They've got some big plans. Nathan Hirsch, who's out of Orlando, Florida, he's doing very well with it. You can get VAs as low as $5 and up to $50 per hour, depending on what skillset you require. Check out the Filipino ... I can't remember the domain names off the top of my head, but there are a lot of Filipino virtual assistant sites out there that you can just Google it up, and it will pull up some of the top ones. They really are a great crowd for your everyday administrative stuff. I'm literally teaching my VAs now how to set up some of the beginning integrations of click funnel. STEVE: That's awesome. JEN: I have a checklist, and they can go through and connect the SMTP and the domain and do some of the basic setup. Then I can take it from there and build a funnel. STEVE: Fantastic. Just because you mentioned it, how are you using it with click funnels? I went through and looked at your site, and it looks fantastic. It's very clean. HowToGoVirtual; right? Dot-net? JEN: That's the academy site that we're launching. The services site, where all of our clients go through is InternetGirlFriday.com, and we're just like any other entrepreneur. We have multiple different sites. What happened was, I needed to get all of this information into other people's hands. I've got 15-plus years on the internet. Of course, you want to package that up and provide it online as a video course or some type of academy environment. I created a class to teach people the four steps of getting your business website launched, because you know how customers get confused about the internet. The internet is so big now, and there's so many steps, and the algorithms. They get approached by so many vendors. "What should I be paying for," and I said, "I've got to find a way to simplify this." Back in 2010, I think it was, I came up with a 12-step plan. Just a way to categorize everything you do on the internet came to 12 categories. That's it. I just wanted to show people, "Okay, Step 1 is your research and your keyword research and your competitive analysis. Step 12, at the end, is analytics." Everything falls somewhere in between, so that they had something that they could follow along. Not that every strategy goes in order, but the first four I call, "The foundation." You've got to do your keyword research if you're going to launch a website, and your competitive analysis, and you have to know what people are looking for, what your target market is looking for. Step 1. Step 2, building your website in a blueprint first. I think that's so important, because you need to get the SEO and the keywords that were revealed in the first step into your website. If you just hand your website over to someone, they might make it beautiful for the humans, but they're neglecting what robots need to see through Google. STEVE: Right. JEN: That's Step 2, build the blueprint. Step 3, build the website. Step 4, connect it to the search engines and some directories. Now you've got your foundation to go offsite and do all your marketing with whatever strategy you're deploying. I package that up into a course. I'm glad that I had the time off that I did, because when I came back to it, there was click funnel, and it was like, "Ah." Finally there; right? The funnel isn't new. The strategy isn't new. It's a little different, because, again, the internet is bigger and more complicated, but a sales funnel is still a sales funnel; right? We didn't reinvent the funnel. We just put the software together in one place, like Russell. All the steps that you used to have to do, you used to have to literally build a landing page, usually in HTML, because you needed it to be a certain way. If you needed a green check-mark versus a red check-mark, it was all piecework. Then you'd have to go to the next step, and you'd have to connect your email responder. Everything was daisy-chained together. It was so overwhelming, that most people didn't launch, because there was so much work. Even me, who has a team, knew how to do it for so many years, I could never launch, because it was overwhelming. STEVE: Yeah. JEN: ClickFunnels comes on the scene and it's all in one place. I don't use the term, "All-in-one" lightly. I don't give credit to many softwares. It's not an all-in-one where you're billing and all your other things are in there, but for the funnel it's all in one. Everything is literally in one place, and it's been so exciting to set up and to get going and to see that now I can literally wake up at 3 am, have an idea, and within two hours, have it going and some ads going, and it's launched. That's the exciting part. My clients are excited about it to. STEVE: That's so cool. That's so awesome. I remember when I first started putting things together for ... It was an artist actually that built the first site/funnel four or five years ago. I remember spending two hours ... No, it was two days, two full days, trying to make WordPress act like a squeeze page. JEN: I know. STEVE: It was the most hellish thing. It was awful. I remember just settling with something. I can't remember what it was. Neither of us liked it. I'm not a coder or programmer. I can read it. I can edit it, but I'm not at all a programmer, at all. I was like, "This is terrible." I almost gave up on the internet a little bit, because it was so hard. Then when click funnels came around, I remember I saw the presentation that Russell gave mine. I probably shouldn't have done this, but I didn't talk to my wife about it. I immediately bought it, and I started using it and building for other people. I was like, "This is the craziest thing." Now I dream in funnel editor. It's the funniest thing. JEN: Same thing, yeah, because back when you were creating your old landing page, which, again, is just one tiny piece of the whole funnel, I often went back and forth to, "Gees, I've got to hire a developer just to create a landing page page template in my WordPress?" Then that never got done. Then you go over to the third-party platforms that are providing fully landing pages. You're like, "I don't want to spend another $50 a month just to do this one piece, because by the time I'm done with the whole funnel, I'm spending a thousand dollars a month just to get it all connected. Yeah, it's been such a blessing, and I'm so excited. STEVE: I think my record so far with sitting here next to Mr. Russell Brunson, I think the fastest we put a funnel out is 45 minutes or something like that, a full one. It's like there's no way. He and I will still sit back and be like, "I can't believe we have this software," and he's the CEO of it. We'll be like, "Man, look what we just did. Look what we pulled off." He's like, "This little change used to cost me 10 grand. We're going to do it in 30 minutes." JEN: I remember testing my first webinar funnel, and I didn't have it completely set up, but at some point I got my reminder email, and I said, "Oh, look, how cool is that? I'm already getting the emails automatically." I didn't even set up the email, and I clicked on the link inside that said, "Your webinar is starting now." I clicked it 20 minutes late. When I did click it, it went right into the webinar that was playing, at the 20-minute mark. I said, "This is magic." STEVE: Yeah. So cool. I know I said we'd keep it to 30 minutes. You are amazing. I can't believe all the stuff you're pulling off is incredible, manager and builder of teams. I'm looking at all these sites right now. It's absolutely incredible and just crazy impressive. Where should people go if they want to follow you, learn more about you, even obviously use some of your services. JEN: Yeah. If you go to InternetGirlFriday.com, then you can find my social media, which is everywhere. We have Periscope and Instagram and YouTube and all that, and follow me on any of those. We're very active there. InternetGirlFriday.com is the service's site. You can contact me there. You can say, "Hey, I don't need to hire you, but I have a question," and I'll be glad to help. STEVE: Awesome. I appreciate it so much. Thanks. This is spur-of-the-moment, but this has been awesome. JEN: Sure. Thank you. STEVE: All right. Hey, we'll talk to you later. JEN: Okay. Bye-bye. Thanks for listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Please remember to subscribe and leave feedback. Want to get one of today's best internet sales funnels for free? Go to SalesFunnelBroker.com/FreeFunnels to download your pre-built sales funnel today.
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