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“There’s got to be more meaning and more passion into the traditional tech pitching.

Host Karin Thorne and guest host Max Matthews continue their chat with Seth Mulligan about tech pitching, how t…

Modeling a venture is related but, certainly a different discipline than inventing or creating it or coding it or improving it.

Host Karin Thorne and special Guest Host Max Matthews chat with Seth…

If you're gonna be part of a community of people that are like-minded, do try to show up and go be a part of the community. Contribute in some way. There's a lot of value that you can get out of it …

I'm a selfish knitter. A lot of people, especially in the tech industry, are all about side hustles. I'm not about that life. ... Everyone's always like, "Why don't you sell your knits? Why don't yo…

One of the main things I love about my job is the community. Being able to go to these events and call it work when it's really just socializing and networking and building those connections. The sa…

If you have a mixture of getting lucky and have a little bit of talent at doing this sort of stuff, you could have an idea that maybe has some success. And I'll say, if you roll a die enough times, …

I would say using teaching as a way to get better at something is a really good approach. And I would say that if you don't have a lot of knowledge, you shouldn't think you can't teach. I'm very muc…

We are all experts in our own different fields...I may be great with something like Gatsby or livestreaming but if you go tell me, "Hey, can you cook me a very professional meal and serve it up?"...…

My big advice is...work backwards. Because it's so easy to learn all these tiny little concepts in programming. And it's cool and you're excited while you're doing it but at the end of the day, it's…

I think a lot of people, when they hear "hacker", they think cybersecurity or issues on their phone. Really, the original term "hacker" was someone who solved problems and just threw things together…

Sometimes I really miss AIM. I used to leave away messages all the time and so did all my friends. Update people with what you're doing or put song lyrics in the away messages...I'm just not going t…

I think a hacker is defined as someone that has a passion for a particular topic or a particular subject field. Whether it's computers or electronics, whether it's history or art, we can all conside…

I would say go for it. ... Learning any of anything is gonna help you more than wondering what to learn or trying to pick the perfect thing. Spoiler alert: there is no perfect thing. Everything has …

If we risk messing with things too much...I think we could risk reducing some of that community building side, right? And I think if we wanna get more of these outcomes, we need to really value and …

I was looking for a change, and on the way to a change, and then when I got involved with the bootcamp, everything changed!

It's been about six months since hosts Kelly Corey and Karin Thorne grad…

With Surge Syracuse and all of these initiatives, the idea is to keep tech local and tech resources local, and we can't do that if people can't find jobs here. We know the jobs are out there, but pe…

I commend people who are stuck in their ways because they're gonna be the ones that are going to be protected the most in the terrible event that something tragic does happen to us here.

Karin and…

Even though these are huge advances to the technology community, we still have to be concerned and be aware of the cyber risks that are imposed because if we're not, then we're gonna just make ourse…

"People come to these events from all over, and so they'll be able to also see that we have a tech community, that we have awesome people here, and be able to see all the really cool natural feature…

"If we want to be a podcast that's by the Syracuse tech community for the Syracuse tech community, then we better include all the Syracuse tech community."

Kelly and Karin discuss their New Year's…