“Because innovation is a team sport. Some kinds of innovation are about defining problems the right way and bringing people from diverse backgrounds together to solve them. This type of challenge makes perfect sense for large brand organizations that not only want to accelerate innovation but also want to engage the community, bring visibility to their growth trajectories, and attract high-quality talent.”
“There are a lot of positive aspects of momentum now that are all pointing in the right direction, we are continuing to make noise and bringing people together and making sure those collaborations happen, that is an important function (of TenX Tech), too.”
CEO and founder Rajiv Menon joins The Intern Whisperer Podcast to open up about his personal journey to business growth and success, Startup Weekend, and the Orlando entrepreneur community.
“The turnout was impressive and greater than anticipated — so much so that we had a bottleneck at check-in. It really showed that the combined team — Synapse, Orlando Tech Council, and Orlando Economic Partnership — have found the right audience to speak to, and it is a great platform to launch other initiatives. Combining with Startup Weekend Orlando, Lean Startup Orlando, Immerse and Synapse to build Innovation Week might have helped, too.”
A new Orlando program sets out to prove startups aren’t the only businesses capable of innovation. Two local tech founders on Oct. 15 announced the launch HyperValidation, a program to provide companies with innovation consulting to stay on the cutting edge.
During this Founder’s Talk, Rajiv Menon, Founder at Informulate and Startup Ninja, talks about the value of developing low-cost and high-impact experiments that allow startup founders to maximize learning and build great products. Listen to the entire talk and others.
The growth of small businesses like Datanautix, which employs 10 people, is important for Central Florida. These companies often add local jobs and create economic impact as they scale. Startups also create innovative solutions for businesses, help develop a community and make it easier for other new companies to form in the future. Part of Datanautix’s growth plans are to prove Orlando can support such high-tech startups.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer joined regional tech and business leaders from Synapse, Stax, Creative City Project, Truist and the Orlando Economic Partnership (the Partnership) to announce the first-ever Orlando Innovation Week, which will include the return of Synapse Orlando and the Immerse arts and culture festival.
In this week’s Orlando Profiles in Tech, Rajiv Menon, Founder/CEO of Informulate and current Orlando Tech Council Chair, discusses what makes Orlando the right place for his business and what makes the Orlando tech ecosystem especially unique.
CEO and founder of Informulate Rajiv Menon presents on how innovation thrives in disruption and what an innovative methodology can do to bring us out of it.
Informulate CEO Rajiv Menon featured on Digital Orlando panel on Moving towards an Innovation Economy.
During this Founder’s Talk, Rajiv Menon, Founder/CEO at Informulate and Startup Ninja, discusses how to use the lean startup principles to keep the unknowns from hurting you.
“This brings people out to talk to each other across industry. We have defense, travel, technology, hospitality here. We have the service industry. Innovation is happening across all of them. We can learn from each other a lot of times.”
The new Orlando Tech Council stands to fill the convener role of past tech groups, including the Orlando Tech Association and, most recently, the Central Florida Tech Alliance. The tech alliance dissolved in October, citing a lack of funds. Each member of the tech council committee previously was on the board of the tech alliance, but they see working with public/private economic development group Orlando Economic Partnership as key to the sustained success of the new tech group.
Today, the Orlando Economic Partnership (The Partnership) announced the formation of the Orlando Tech Council. This council comprised of private industry, resource organizations and public partners will develop new programs with the core objectives to strengthen the region’s innovation resources, create new opportunities for companies to scale, and to amplify the region’s success stories raising the global profile of Orlando as a leading community for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Channel 9/WFTV interviews Rajiv Menon at the Synapse conference about innovation trends in Orlando. Rajiv is Chair Elect at the Orlando Tech Council under Orlando Economic Partnership and Lead Organizer of the global award winning Startup Weekend Orlando program.
“A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of serving on a panel — Digital Transformation and Plastics Manufacturing — at the Plastics Executive Conference in Naples, Florida. The panel was moderated by my good friend, Nanette Gregory, senior partner at NSG Consulting, and I was joined by Rajiv Menon, founder of Informulate; Gary Stein, CTO of Alpha Proto, and Willem Sundblad, founder and CEO of Oden Technologies.”
CEO and founder Rajiv Menon speaks at the Synapse Summit in Tampa, FL.
Informulate sponsors the Stare of Lean Startup event in Orlando.
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour weekend event, during which groups of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more pitch ideas for new startup companies, form teams around those ideas, and work to develop a working prototype, demo, and presentation by Sunday evening.
The City of Orlando has committed $65,000 to support local startup and tech events around our community. This Orlando Technology Community Support Pilot Program was administered by the Orlando Economic Partnership and voted on by a group of local tech leaders.
Rajiv Menon is an entrepreneur, consultant, and mentor. He is the Founder/Solution Architect at Informulate, a unique software services consultancy that employs Lean Startup and Agile methodologies, launched in 2006. He launched Talent4Startups.org, a free, non-profit portal for startup founders to collaborate with students and professionals in 2014. He is committed to the Lean and Agile methodologies. Rajiv is the founding organizer of the Orlando-based Lean Startup Practitioners group. He is a mentor through workshops, events and accelerators – notably VentureScaleUp, WeVenture and Lean Startup Machine.
Menon believes the benefits of events like Startup Weekend and Startup Week — held for the first time in Tampa earlier this month— shouldn’t be limited by their end date on the calendar. That’s why he launched Orlando-based website Talent4Startups, owned by his Social, Employment, and Educational Impact Corp.
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