This will go in next Saturday’s picdump, but it was too good not to share now.
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Category: Business
On Thursday, July 10 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern (11:30 a.m. Pacific / 1830 UTC), tune in to a webinar on rethinking the way businesses pay for knowledge work featuring:
✅ Fatin Kwasny, Founder and CEO of Fractio
✅ Yours Truly, Sales Engineer at Fractio
If your business is still pricing or accepting labor from knowledge workers…
- by the hour,
- by the project,
- or even worse, by retainer or
- by time & materials…
…you’re already losing — and AI will only make it worse.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss how:
- Companies are leaking up to 50% of labor spend due to idle time, misaligned scopes, and outdated compensation models.
- AI as a capital cost is shifting the rules of value creation — and why time-based knowledge work is the next labor bubble to burst.
- A usage-based labor model like Fractio’s can eliminate muda (a Japanese term for wastefulness that the Six Sigma crew like to use) and protect your bottom line in a future where efficiency is non-negotiable.
We’ll also show some actual data from companies already seeing at least 10x ROI by shifting how they price or accept knowledge work.
Join us this Thursday, July 10 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern (11:30 a.m. Pacific / 1830 UTC) for our webinar, From Time to Throughput: Rewriting Labor Economics in the Age of AI!
It’ll be an entertaining, informative discussion, featuring 45 minutes of presentation followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
Click here to register for this FREE online event.
Fractio is a SaaS that enables companies to pay for knowledge work on a “per-thing-done” basis instead of the less efficient per-hour, per-project, or on retainer. (Think paying for a rideshare versus paying for a taxi.)
At Synapse Summit 2025, Fractio was the winner of the of the Startup Innovation Award, which recognizes emerging ventures that are making waves and redefining what’s possible.
Once upon a time, “Skype” was synonymous with “audio chat” and then “video chat.” But that was a while back, and Zoom, Slack, Discord, and (grudgingly) Teams have taken over.
I hadn’t used Skype in so long that I’d thought the service had already been shot down — but that’s actually happening in May, according to Microsoft’s article, The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams .
So my first reaction was “Skype is still around?”
My second reaction:
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Resume-generating events
At last night’s meetup held by the Tampa Bay Product Group, presenter Jamel Canty put up a slide with a phrase I’ve always liked, but haven’t seen in a while:
“Resume-generating events.”
He was using it in the same sense as a similar phrase: career-limiting move: an action, behavior, or colossal screw-up that leads to your dismissal, which in turn necessitates your generating revised resumes as you start a new job search.
“Resume-generating event” also has another meaning: a major warning sign at a company (examples: an ominous all-hands meeting, a merger or acquisition, a Boeing-style product failure) that causes employees of a company to start looking for work elsewhere.
Given the current work environment, assisted by the culture’s general slouch towards authoritarianism and the balance of power favors management, expect to see this phrase used more often.
Yes, NVIDIA’s share price took a 17% beating yesterday, but if you stop thinking like a day trader, you’ll remember that even with yesterday’s losses, the price has more than doubled over the past 365 days.
Breathe.
Tampa Bay Innovation Center (TBIC) is holding an IdeaSprint Bootcamp for new B2B startups on Wednesday, January 15th from 5:00pm – 7:30pm!
It’s going to be an abbreviated, but very intensive program is perfect for B2B software startups that are less than 9 months old. It will cover strategy, product development, and market validation and is for first-time startup founders, who could benefit from the planning activities and tools, and aren’t ready to commit to a full-time program.
The tl;dr
- What: IdeaSprint Bootcamp
- When: Wednesday, January 15, 5:00 — 7:30 p.m.
- Where: Tampa Bay Innovation Center (1101 4th St S, St. Petersburg)
- Application deadline: Apply by Friday, January 10!
- Find out more and register here
Details
Who’s the IdeaSprint Bootcamp for?
- Aspiring founders who are building a tech product
- First-time tech innovators with an idea for a tech product
What should attendees expect?
- Expert-led workshops
- Peer-to-peer learning
- An understanding of Tampa Bay’s ecosystem of tech resources
What categories of startup are eligible?
- Enterprise software (including SaaS)
- FinTech
- MedTech
- AgTech
- SpaceTech
- Energy storage & management
- Robotics
Please note:
- TBIC’s elevator was damaged by the storm and will not be accessible. Attendees must be able to use the stairs.
- This in-person event is open to founders located in the Tampa Bay region.
- This program is limited to 20 companies; applications must first be approved, and founders will be notified via email in advance of the program. Please make sure your contact information is correct.
- This program is exclusively for product companies, consultants or service providers will not be accepted.
It’s funny because it’s true.