Surprisingly Free Conversations
The folks at Surprisingly Free have a wonderful episode about the rise of Netflix. Inside are some great stories about how the company had to pivot, how it took on industry giants and won, and some of its major missteps. The perspective may be that of economists, but darn if the insights aren't relevant to us entrepreneurs!
After helping Memolane over the atlantic and becoming a true-blue Silicon Valley company, Clickster Christian Lagier has repeated the feat for Vivino, an app that recognizes 500.000 wines using your smartphone's camera. Christian helped the company raise a $10.3M A-round (see press release here), validating their strategy and bringing another hot start-up to the USA!
Next, Christian's ambition is to bring entrepreneurs to this Pioneer Valley, especially in the healthcare field.
Christian joined us here in Northampton only a few months ago and clearly is our kind of trouble maker :).
Congrats Christian!
Aimen Khan
Click is delighted to welcome our newest member Aimen Khan. Aimen recently graduated from Lawrence University with degree in Economics and Government, and will be working with Click Company Credit Market Intelligence.
Aimen, welcome to Northampton! Your fellow coworkers look forward to getting to know you!
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Welcome to the first in a new occasional series, Toolbox Tuesdays, where we highlight tools that Clicksters have found to be... well... awesome. Or to put it more professionally, tools that let us Get Things Done with minimum headaches and cost.
This Tuesday we're highlighting...
Lastpass www.lastpass.com
We all know we SHOULD have unique, high security passwords for every website we use. We should never store our passwords in file on our hard drive or even in our wallet.
Yah... right.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that created strong, unique passwords for every website you visited, remembered them, made them one-click ready when you land on the site (or made your MULTIPLE usernames and passwords all 1-click ready for you), was easy to securely share specific passwords with others (spouses like to have banking info, I'm just say'n...). And hell, wouldn't it be cool if the company proving the tool did not sell your private info, did not have access to your passwords, AND gave you a version for free?
Don't take our word for it, here is a great review from Lifehacker.
You can get LastPass here.
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The great folks at DeskMag, an online resource for coworkers, put out this nice article: Living Life in the Freelance Lane: Tips & Tricks for ‘lancers. The opening sets the tone...
Coworking is where freelancing begins, but it isn’t where it ends. You need to know your rights, stay on top of your financial education and keep moving forward with the inspiration to succeed (without falling in to the side ditch of being professionally unemployed). Some say freelancers have the freedom to work any 13 hours of the day they like, but the smarter ones know they could set themselves free to the Four Hour Workweek.