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Geek of the Week: Socedo’s Akash Badshah straddles the line between engineer and entrepreneur
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Akash Badshah calls himself the “classic millennial engineer,” but really he finds himself sitting squarely at the intersection between an engineer and people manager. He wears a lot of hats as the product architect at Socedo, a Seattle startup that helps business generate sales leads from Twitter. He has to think strategically about Socedo’s longterm roadmap as the...
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Tech toy guide: 5 fun gifts for the geek in your life
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Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, give a little thought to what’ll tickle the science geek on your gift list. We’re not talking about the “10 best gadgets” or cutting-edge technology here. Just a few little somethings (or big somethings) that play off our sense of wonder or just plain gearheadedness. Here are five ideas to...
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Geek of the Week: ‘Soma’ Somasegar is ready for something new after 27 years at Microsoft
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S. “Soma” Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989, back when the Redmond software company had less than 5,000 employees and was gearing up for the first release of a new productivity suite it was calling Microsoft Office. More than two decades later, Somasegar was a well known figure around campus when he announced in October he would be leaving after 27 years....
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Geek of the Week: Patent attorney Priya Cloutier couldn’t help but catch the entrepreneurial bug
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Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has been representing startups for more than a decade. She left a comfortable job a big firm in October to start her own practice, Cloutier Global. Things are still just getting started, but Cloutier said she was able to bring...
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