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Serial entrepreneur Gaurav Oberoi strikes again: Lexion’s sale to Docusign shows methodical approach to building startups

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“That social validation felt good. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Seattle startup Worksphere helps manage process of returning to and running offices after pandemic

GeekWire

If and when workers return to offices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Seattle startup called Worksphere is looking to make the process safer and more manageable with a software platform that tracks everything from seating arrangements to contract tracing. and other seed funds and angel investors.

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Seattle-area health startup One Item expands CDC-backed heart study

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The app is used in combination with other efforts, such as linking people with social services and medical providers. The app identifies key focus areas through a survey that asks questions about exercise, sleep, water intake, nutrition and other factors.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. It could be stories in the news about your company or what personnel and clients say about the company in social media.

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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

CIO Business Intelligence

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. What does that really mean and what does it take?

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.