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Heyday Kirkland

How a Tech Leader Ventured Into a Franchise Ownership

Leadership lessons learned on my journey from a startup to a large tech organization

April 1, 2025


Heyday Kirkland

How Being a Startup Cofounder helped my Big Tech Transition

Leadership lessons learned on my journey from a startup to a large tech organization

May 1, 2023


The Child Care Concierge

Why Your Startup Should Invest in a Strong Technical Foundation

Make your pivots easier by taking some design time upfront

Feb 15, 2022


Advice from an industry veteran

Advice from a Developer, Industry Executive, and Startup CTO

Summary from an Ask Me Anything session from a section leader in Stanford’s Code In Place program

July 16, 2020


LegUp's Serverless architecture for processing e-mails

What you need to know to build a serverless communication system

How our startup designed an event-driven architecture to automate e-mails in a cost effective way

June 9, 2020


LegUp Cofounders

Lessons Learned from my Transition to Startup CTO

My story of venturing out from a Corporate VP role

Jan 23, 2020


Alexa Development 101, photo courtesy of Mindspand

Teach What you Know to Learn it Better

What I learned by leading an Alexa-development workshop

Dec 4, 2019


Photo by BENCE BOROS on Unsplash

Top 5 benefits of the Jargon SDK for Voice Content Management

Top reasons to adopt the Jargon SDK for your voice applications

Jan 28, 2019