Last month, Startup Grind Fremont celebrated Female Founders Month with eloquent reflections from Futurist and Advisor Ann Badillo. Ann recounted her personal experiences as a female leader and offered thoughts on why the millennial generation embraces a different social contract and why they will rely on women for leadership more than ever before. A longtime […]
Momentum is building in Fremont’s Innovation District. From the Warm Springs BART opening andnew commercial development to record low vacancy rates, it’s clear that a growing number of tech customers are looking to Fremont as a business location. With its well-earned reputation for accommodating R&D and manufacturing, Fremont has long been a natural fit for […]
The new trend in the startup world is to build a business around a layer of technology. This is referred to as a full stack or whole product company. In the past, software would be created and sold off. But, now many innovative companies will instead take a specific piece of technology and build a […]
Booming technology companies are thriving in a diverse and beautiful urban metro area while the region struggles with skyrocketing housing prices and lagging transit infrastructure. Sound familiar? Welcome to Seattle, the northwest corollary to Silicon Valley, and the living laboratory for the Urban Land Institute‘s spring conference. While the Bay Area has been subsumed by […]
Having recently learned about storyhacking, Startup Grind Fremont tackled the topic of growth hacking at our April event – no coding experience required! According to entrepreneur investor Rana Gujral, growth hacking is a series of fast-paced experiments using a variety of skills (marketing, product development, and sales), and conventional and unconventional methods, to achieve growth. […]
Working as a graduate intern with Fremont’s economic development team during the past three months has been a delight. The clear focus and leadership that the team exhibits for increasing Fremont’s business profile is energizing to witness. An exciting project on the docket is a Feasibility Study for Fremont’s Innovation District, home of the Tesla […]
Attracting new visitors to a city takes a variety of efforts including conferences, parades, festivals, and other types of public events. In Fremont’s quest to “weirdify” the City and attract more millennials, I present to you the puzzle hunt. On May 6, 250 people gathered at Central Park to participate in DASH (Different Area, Same Hunt […]
I recently attended a panel discussion on the exciting trend of game-based learning at DeVry University’s Fremont campus. Dr. Rod Berger, President and CEO of MindRocket Media Group, kicked off the discussion by asking panelists to define game-based learning, its role in higher education, and challenges that it faces. Gamification Analyst Karl Kapp acknowledged that […]
We met Rex Ryan Magadia at a event with the San Francisco chapter of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). His interest in supply chain management stems both from his experience growing up in the Philippines and a personal mission to protect the environment. His recent blog post provides an interesting perspective on […]