For Brinqa’s director of event and customer marketing, the key to stretch assignments is ensuring they align with her team’s growth goals and skill sets.
SnapTrends, a startup that collects location-based data from social media posts to reveal “trending” topics of discussion in a particular area, as well as time-sensitive, crucial updates.
Austin-based data.world isn’t just about storing a bunch of data though — it also provides information on datasets that can reach into the gigabytes. Data.world opens up powerful queries on that data, tracking its usage and making it more accessible.
Founders Will Ko, Winston Tri, and Wes Cole spent the last winter coding in a garage to fix this problem and created Ping Social, a new social media channel helping friends organize and attend events with people in their network.
