Max Beatty

For mom and dad, bud­ding infor­mat­ics and com­puter sci­ence stu­dents, and any prepar­ing inter­vie­wees, this is what I jug­gled today. I arrived at the office before 10am ener­gized in part from 1000mg of vit­a­min C and some DayQuil wear­ing an IU t-shirt and jeans hav­ing not shaved for days if not more than a week. As […]

Last Fri­day, I lis­tened to a great pod­cast where Mike Mon­teiro and Kaite Gillum of Mule Design inter­viewed Chris Sacca who explic­itly said no one is fund­ing ideas. Today, Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity announced a $1.1 mil­lion fund to estab­lish the world’s largest stu­dent prize for a soft­ware or tech­nol­ogy busi­ness plan. How can my alma mater […]

I heard an alter­nate ver­sion of the tra­di­tional “project tri­an­gle” awhile back that related directly to con­sult­ing. As I’ve been look­ing for a new role within the com­pany, I’ve used it as a pril­im­i­nary mea­sur­ing stick for how I’ll prob­a­bly like the pro­posed project.

Cus­tomer reten­tion is hard espe­cially when peo­ple only need your ser­vice once a year. It’s dif­fi­cult to keep track of past cus­tomers and walk the fine line of keep­ing in touch enough to not be for­got­ten but just enough not to annoy them. I wanted to write about what a great job an apart­ment finding […]

Last week con­cluded my first three months at my first job out of col­lege. Accen­ture has been great! I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of great peo­ple, and am excited about the career ahead of me.