MN Tech Mag | Spring/Summer 2023

RESOURCE GUIDE

QUIPS & QUOTES

What’s a great purchase you’ve made for under $100? We want to hear about a purchase you wish you’d made sooner and how it improved your home, health, habits...or just made you happy!

Article Sources: 79%: https://www.zippia.com/advice/networking-statistics/ 30%: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/how-to-get-a-job-often- comes-down-to-one-elite-personal-asset.html 52 Million: https://thesocialshepherd.com/blog/linkedin-statistics 8: https://thesocialshepherd.com/blog/linkedin-statistics 35%: https://news.linkedin.com/2017/6/eighty-percent-of-profes- sionals-consider-networking-important-to-career-success 76%: https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/meeting-statistics 40%: https://novoresume.com/career-blog/networking-statistics $30 Billion: https://review42.com/resources/networking-statistics/ 27 Million: https://www.creditdonkey.com/business-card-statis- tics.html 88%: https://www.creditdonkey.com/business-card-statistics.html

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Event Sources: Rally Innovation https://rallyinnovation.com/ Google Cloud Next https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next Hubspot INBOUND https://www.inbound.com/ Product-Led Summit https://world.productledalliance.com/location/sanfrancisco Dreamforce https://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/ Enterprise Data World https://edw2023fall.dataversity.net/ Chicago eCommerce Summit https://retailsummits.com/ HLTH https://www.hlth.com/2023event DAA One https://daaoneconference.org/ Opticon https://www.optimizely.com/opticon/ Cyber Security Summit https://www.cybersecuritysummit.org/ Live! 360 https://live360events.com/Events/Orlando-2023/Home.aspx AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

The UCOMX Nano 3-in-1 Wireless Charger. It charges your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods by simply placing your devices on the charging pads and eliminates the need for separate cords and chargers.

Without a doubt a SodaStream. The sustainability and cost

The Stanley water bottle. It keeps water

savings alone are fantastic, but I love having endless sparkling water. I never drink soda anymore because I realized I just want the cold carbonation. Ansley Walker She-She Media + Design

cold for over ten hours and makes drinking water super appealing.

Hannah Lopez Access 2 Insight

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Kaley Schur BTIG

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A white noise machine. With all the hustle and bustle in NYC, canceling out the chatter to get a restful night’s sleep is imperative to my overall wellness and work performance.

I recently purchased a few coffee tools from Blue Bottle, including the cold brew bottle and ceramic pour over kit. It’s helped me make high- quality coffee at home, which saves money and builds in nice steps to my morning routine.

Athletic Greens is my number one recommendation. I drink it first thing in the morning and it ensures I start my day in a healthy way. Whether it’s the effect of the supplements or merely

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a placebo, I always feel energized and rejuvenated afterwards. Michelle Galliani Galliani Creative LLC

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Kathryn Foley Attentive

Kirk Willens Citadel Securities

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Microsoft Azure & AI Conference https://www.azureaiconf.com/#!/

The unsuspecting hero of summer has been a bubble machine. Bubbles are a summertime staple if you have little children, and the bubble machine has elevated our game with 10,000 bubbles per minute!

My favorite purchase has been my Apple HomePod Mini. From a voice control and smart-home perspective, almost all the features in the $300 version can be found in the $100 HomePod Mini. It has a surprisingly nice speaker!

I bought Hey Dudes before a trip to Mexico so that I would have something to wear to the beach and around town. Now I wear them for mowing the lawn, playing pickup basketball games, and watching Netflix. They aren’t pretty, but they are really comfortable and fairly cheap.

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Heather Schaefer Concord

Sarah Tautin Optum

Steve Bubb Concord

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