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Today, we brought about 20 high school students from East Palo Alto, an underresourced neighborhood, to Slalom Consulting’s offices to share about what consulting is for a few hours. Such a great time to be able to broaden the horizons of what’s possible for kids who don’t have the same privileges that many of us have. Thanks for partnering Able Works!

Our agenda:
– Consulting 101 Presentation
– Office Tour
– Panel Discussion
– Group Activity – create the mall of the future for our client, a REIT, and present your ideas
– Speech by our GM, Tiago Dias
– Lunch

Great team effort Ramya Sreekumar Michael Mashack Julie Omran Tiago Dias and more!

“Everything seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

A new tool was recently created called “The Culture Map” by the people who created the Business Model Canvas. What are your thoughts on it? It seems like it could be a great simple conversation starter for companies.

This is a video that was made about the vision trip I went with Hope International to the Dominican Republic! http://buff.ly/1mCdvEw

Good article about Airbnb’s CEO, Brian Chesky, and how he learns new subjects quickly. He recommends taking time to find the best source / thought leader on a subject and then dive deep into their content.

“Unfortunately, for some individuals it is far easier to imagine failure than it is to imagine success. Be careful where you allow your imagination to focus.” Bobb Biehl

I recently kicked off a new initiative / hypothesis: get YouTube influencers that are developers to create sponsored videos on their channels using Voximplant’s APIs/SDKs (e.g. how to integrate video calling into a mobile/web app using our video API).
 
The idea is this will increase our brand awareness and get us in front of new audiences that haven’t heard of us before. It’s also sort of like outsourcing the demo creation part of the devrel function.
 
1. Has anyone done this before? If so, any advice for me?
2. Would anyone like to pitch these YouTube developer influencers jointly? We could ask if they would like to make a video about each of our companies’ products. We could probably get better rates b/c many provide discounts if you commit to multiple videos.

Life is too short to work for a company you’re not excited about (assuming you have the ability to choose which company to work for)

What’s a perk of working for a software company rather than a physical goods company?

No inventory. Software isn’t getting stuck in shipping containers in LA!

You want to buy our software? Coming right up in half a second 🙂

Tip of the day: walking while working 🚶📱

I love to walk while triaging Slack messages or emails. (And avoid the overhanging tree branches on the sidewalk.)

Your body will thank you for this half-hour of movement, especially if you sit for most of the day ☺️