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January 8, 2024 | Orlando Tech News

4Q4: Four Questions For … Rajiv Menon, Orlando Magic Innovation Challenge

“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.”

August 23, 2023 | Orlando Tech News

Innovate Orlando's TenX Tech adds 'big bump' to attendee's reach

“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.”

November 9, 2021 | The Intern Whisperer Podcast

The Intern Whisperer Podcast S4 Ep 174 with Rajiv Menon

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.

October 26, 2021 | The Biz Journals - Orlando

Orlando tech community praises ‘high caliber’ Synapse event, offers ways to improve

“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.”

October 18, 2021 | The Biz Journals - Orlando

Need to shake up the way you do business? This new Orlando program may be able to help.

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.

September 14, 2021 | Rally SEA

Transforming Learning And Failure Into ROI And Great Product

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.

September 7, 2021 | The Biz Journals - Orlando

Orlando startup Datanautix lands big partners while avoiding venture capital

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.

July 23, 2021 | The Orlando Tech Council

Region’s Largest Tech and Innovation Conference Returns for Inaugural Orlando Innovation Week

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.

February 12, 2021 | The Orlando Tech Council

Profiles in Tech: Rajiv Menon, Informulate

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.

November 2, 2020 | Digital Orlando

Innovation in a Time of Disruption

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.

November 2, 2020 | Digital Orlando

Building an Innovation Economy in Orlando

Informulate CEO Rajiv Menon featured on Digital Orlando panel on Moving towards an Innovation Economy.

September 7, 2020 | Rally SEA

What You Don't Know Will Hurt You

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.

November 27, 2019 | The Orlando Sentinel

Startup Weekend: Tech pros mentor new firms to help with workforce shortage

“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.”

November 22, 2019 | The Orlando Business Journal

Here's how the new Orlando Tech Council can connect local tech groups

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. 

November 4, 2019 | The Orlando Economic Partnership

Orlando Economic Partnership Forms the Orlando Tech Council

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.

October 30, 2019 | Channel 9 WFTV

Rajiv Menon, Founder at Informulate Speaks About Orlando 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.

March 27, 2019 | David A. Marshall Consulting

How to Use Digital Transformation and Evolution in Your Manufacturing Company

“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.”

March 5, 2019 | Synapse

Interview with Rajiv Menon at Synapse Summit 2019

CEO and founder Rajiv Menon speaks at the Synapse Summit in Tampa, FL.

January 22, 2019 | Orlando Venture Sourcing

Lean Startup Orlando – State of Lean Startup: Past, Present and Future

Informulate sponsors the Stare of Lean Startup event in Orlando.

October 23, 2018 | Orlando Entrepreneurs

Orlando Startup Weekend 2018 is Approaching

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.

August 17, 2018 | Orlando Entrepreneurs

Orlando Tech Community Support Pilot Program – Grant Awardees Announced

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.

July 18, 2018 | Innovations Of The World

Informulate - Lean Software & Innovation Consulting

Can a boutique consulting company deliver better results for clients than large consulting firms? Is it possible for technical consultants to develop high-trust, long-term partnerships with clients? Can a consultancy enable innovation across multiple levels of an enterprise? Informulate is a company that answers— YES!
July 16, 2019 | Hello Tech Pros

Lean Startup Process and Talent4Startups.org — Rajiv Menon on Entrepreneurship

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.

February 13, 2015 | Tampa Bay Business Journal

Orlando business expanding permanent Startup Weekend concept to Tampa, Miami

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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