How to Automate Everything

A talk by Dan Moore for Accelerate Your Business Growth on September 10, 2020

Using software to automate basic functions can save you time and money so you have one less thing to worry about in a time where the most important thing is to be with family, not worried about how or even if you are going to be able to do your job. Dan Moore shares some great ideas on how to accomplish automation that works.

After brief stints in Enterprise and mid-market data center service providers, Dan co-founded Vaporware to help entrepreneurs take their software ideas to market. Over the past 6 years, he has helped Vaporware deliver thousands of iterations across dozens of apps in 4 main industries (Healthcare, HR, Real Estate, and IT) - ranging from the first MVP versions to modern iterations on mature solutions.

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This talk originally appeared here and has been posted with permission from Accelerate Your Business Growth.

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