May 2012
7 posts
District Oakland, Our New Favorite Neighbor
Bay Area tech industry folks who’ve survived the last bubble or two will be familiar with District, an SF wine bar/restaurant and key lunch/happy hour/event spot. Multiple company ideas have no doubt hatched at their SoMa location. Lucky for us, They’ve opened up their second spot near us here in Old Oakland. We attended the soft-opening celebration, tipped a few among the exposed...
May 1st
April 2012
5 posts
Get Ready, Seattle!
If you’re a Seattleite, you’re in luck. Ask.com is coming to the Emerald City to grant you a wish. We’ve asked around and discovered three problems that many of you would like addressed (based on our research). Your vote will determine which one you want solved the most. Come visit SeattleAsks.com (or check your Pollroll app) starting May 1 to vote. On May 15 we’ll tally your votes and get to...
Apr 26th
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Hackathon: And The Winner Is…
Let’s be honest. You’re expecting the moral of this series of Ask Hackathon posts (see 1 and 2) to be, “Everybody won!” Not going to happen. Sorry. We’re proud, but we’re not cheesy. We had actual winners, who won bona fide trophies and prizes for services that you’ll see launched later this year. That said, everyone at the Hackathon had a good time, learned new stuff, and came up with strong...
Apr 19th
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Why Ask Hacks
For those of you not familiar with the standard company hackathon, it’s a department-wide event where engineers create new(ish) products and services in a short amount of time without having to sweat the standard company process (QA, L&P, general production readiness).  Ask.com cranks that up a notch. Here, we hack the whole company. Busting Routines, Building Teams At any company, It’s...
Apr 17th
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Hackathon Time!
For an entire day last week, you could walk the halls of Ask and hear next-to-no activity—that is, until you passed the conference rooms. There, teams of six typed frantically on laptops, sketched formulas on whiteboards, talked logistics. Translated: the Ask Hackathon was in full swing. Ask’s quarterly Hackathons are two-day events: one day to concept and one half-day to present. The...
Apr 13th
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