Seattle Startup NEU taps OSU grad Claudius Mbemba as CTO

— Seattle startup Neu, which provides room cleaning for rental units, tapped Microsoft engineer Claudius Mbemba as the company’s first CTO. Mbemba spent two years working in enterprise software at Microsoft, with a focus on bots, blockchain, machine learning and...

Want Engagement? Ask Your Employees for Guidance

According to Gallup 70% of the American workforce is disengaged.  Which means when we look around we likely have many of these disengaged employees that work for us. This is important because disengaged employees are people who do the absolute minimum to keep their...

Culture Matters

What’s all the hype about Company Culture these days? We have paid people fairly, provided good benefits and offered a nice office environment for years.  Now suddenly we keep hearing that we need to have a great culture too. Why is there such a focus on culture and...

Smart City Accelerator Companies

Here’s are the companies: HAAS Alert – Realtime mobile vehicle-to-vehicle safety service AVE – New ride-sharing platform connecting cars and mobility services. inTouch – Mobile app allows cities to monitor interactions through Cisco’s Smart +...

1487 Brewery’s First Sales and Tap Take-over!

As with any start-up there are highs and lows, and in the brewery world this is no different.  Except they have great beer to celebrate or commiserate with when needed.  After the arduous task of getting all the proverbial permit ducks in a row, 1487 Brewery can now...