Author: John Mathewson

According to a recent report from Compass, a global software maker, Boston, Massachusetts is ranked second in the entire world in terms of the number of startups founded by women. The East Coast city trailed only Chicago, Illinois, topping a list that includes major cities from around the world.

The report, the 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, found that 29 percent of all startups created in the city of Boston were founded by women, a full 9 percent above the international average. The city lost to Chicago by a single percentage point, showing how quickly the business hub in Boston is progressing.

Eveline Buchatsky, Director of Techstars Boston, a startup accelerator company, told Boston.com that she credits this success to the female talent pool that is coming from both Harvard and MIT. The schools are preparing students to make an impression on the business world, particularly tech, in Boston and beyond.

"These feed the rest of the chain with good raw material that includes a lot of women," Buchatsky told the website.

Boston is home to a number of prominent female tech and business investors, including those behind CommonAngels, Boston Seed and ZipCar. The top five cities with female-founded startups included others from the United States, such as San Francisco, at 24 percent, and Los Angeles at 22 percent. Next on the list was Montreal, which was just barely edged out by LA.

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

Hey everybody and welcome back! This time we’ll be discussing a new deal FileMaker is running that will allow users to more effectively and affordably run FileMaker throughout their businesses.

From now until September 24, FileMaker is offering customers what it is calling the “Boost Your Business Kit”. This includes everything you could possibly need to create and run solutions on FileMaker through your technology, including your Macbook, iPhone, or Windows system.

Offering a 40 percent savings on the first year price, this offer from FileMaker includes 1 FileMaker 14 Server, 5 Concurrent Connections and 5 FileMaker Pro 14 at no additional cost. This deal is limited to one offer per organization.

As always thanks for watching, and be sure to check back here again soon for more helpful FileMaker tips and the latest industry news!

From September 23-25 of this year, Kyo Logic will be hosting a FileMaker Master Class. We are proud to be co-sponsors of the event, along with Dr. Ray Cologon at Nightwing Enterprises. This event is perfect for people who are already familiar with the FileMaker system but are looking to sharpen and hone their abilities.

The FileMaker Master Class is specifically geared toward people who are well acquainted with the full feature set of the FileMaker platform and have past experience developing and deploying complex solutions using the the system. The class is also for those who wish to enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding while taking their development work to the next level.

Kyo Logic's FileMaker Master Class will cover a whole range of topics, including:

• Advanced design solution
• FileMaker application models for data and structure
• Advanced scripting techniques
• Process control
• FileMaker calculation engine
• Code logic
• Designing solutions for scalability
• Advanced development techniques
• Quality assurance using FileMaker

After attending and completing the 2015 FileMaker Master Class, you will be able to apply a range of development techniques, enhance the flexibility and performance of your solutions and understand the deeper nuances and complexities of advanced FileMaker development and usage.

Attendees will also have the skills necessary to choose the most effective framework for their solutions, as well as the techniques to further advance the complicated development practice. The FileMaker Master Class is for those who are already relatively skilled at these solutions and is meant to allow people the opportunity to engage with and complete more complex work.

If you are interested in attending the FileMaker Master Class, or want to learn more about the services Kyo Logic offers, be sure to take a look at the rest of our website!

Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area have long dominated the startup market of not only the United States, but also the entire world. This is especially true of the tech sector, with worldwide leaders such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter calling these cities home since their creation.

According to a new report from Compass, the 2015 edition of the Startup Genome Project, there are new rankings for cities who are starting to own bigger and bigger pieces of the tech startup industry. The report gathered individual information from 11,000 global startup companies as well as interviews with more than 200 worldwide entrepreneurs.

Silicon Valley dominated the tech startup industry, as it has in every iteration of this report since 2012. The rest of the top five are New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Tel Aviv and London. What is interesting to note is how different cities are moving up and down the list, as well as some not quite meeting expectations of experts in the tech industry.

New York City was in fifth place back in 2012, and has since risen. Many have interpreted Boston in fourth place as something of a surprise, as experts predicted that the city's Route 128 high-tech cluster would bring the city to at least second place on the global list.

United States cities account for six of the top 10 cities across the globe, with seven cracking the top 20.

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

At the end of July, Kyo Logic was fortunate enough to make an impact at DevCon. Not only did our own Tim Neudecker present two different exhibits, our company was able to connect and network with other business developers to share and expand our own IT capabilities.

FileMaker's DevCon is a great opportunity for people in the tech world to meet other developers, as well as exchange information and knowledge. It is also gives us a chance to show clients that we have the most up-to-date knowledge of FileMaker and everything that the solution has to offer.

Our objectives for participating in the show were simple, as we wanted to learn about our peers' strategies for implementing FileMaker solutions in a professional setting, as well as sharing our wealth of information with other developers who were in attendance at our two two exhibits.

These exhibits were a success, and Tim was again able to engage with audiences wanting to know everything about what KYO Logic and FileMaker have to offer. The two sessions offered by Kyo Logic were titled "Partnering with IT for Successful Deployment" and "Calculation Functions that Every Developer Should Know."

The latter session went through the more than 30 built-in FileMaker functions with example calculations, and how they can be applied to a variety of professional settings. "Partnering with IT for Successful Deployment" covered the many different topics concerning FileMaker and IT support, from getting IT's approval on a buy-in to how they can properly support FileMaker's solutions. 

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

Hey everybody and welcome back! This time, we’ll be discussing some of the advantages of hosting FileMaker solutions.

One of the best aspects of FileMaker is how easily you can save and store away your data. These backups will make it possible for you to work without worrying about losing your stuff part of the way through a project because everything will be stored automatically.

FileMaker is always working to improve itself, which means that patches and updates will regularly be available in order to keep the system running as efficiently as possible. The latest products and software updates are tested and thoroughly vetted before being released.

As always thanks for watching, and be sure to check back here again soon for more helpful FileMaker tips and the latest industry news!

One of the best aspects of using Excel, no matter what platform you create the chart on, is that it is a clear and effective way to present necessary and vital data. This is especially important if you work in the tech industry, which is based all on numbers and what work is being done.

However, while creating your Excel chart, you want to make sure that you have a presentation that can be easily understood by the audience. A chart that is clogged up with unnecessary data will be frustrating and ultimately forgettable, meaning your information will be lost.

Here are a few ways you can effectively spruce up the Excel charts you create:

• Pick the right graph: One of the first things you will want to do is choose the kind of chart that will best convey the information. A Clustered Bar is a classic design that will be sure to get your data across without becoming too cluttered.
• Remove background lines: If you notice background lines in your chart, you should remove them right away. These will take away from the overall aesthetic of your chart.
• Sort bar graph data: The last thing you want is for your chart to look kind of random and disorganized. Before you actually create the chart, you should organize the information in a way that makes sense. To order the graph in Excel, it is best to go from the largest piece of data to the smallest.

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

One of the main things you will need to do when getting your startup off of the ground is pitch it to potential investors, as well as those who can help spread positive word of mouth. When it comes to creating a pitch, you want to make the best first impression possible.

This means creating a big picture scenario for people to sink their teeth into, as getting overly technical or bogged down in numbers can drive people away. If you have never pitched yourself or a product before, it is very important to get it right at the beginning.

Here are a few ways you can successfully pitch your new company:

• Answer questions: There will inevitably be questions about your company from those you are pitching to, so you will want to try and tackle as many of them upfront as you can. This will provide a greater understanding for everybody involved.
• Have a message: The most effective pitches are those that sell a vision and a message. You should have a clear idea of what you want your company to accomplish and convey that to potential investors or customers.
• Keep it current: If the pitch is tied to big news in the tech world, you want it to be as timely as possibly. Even waiting a week or two means too much time has passed, so you want to time yourself well in order to have the greatest possible impact.

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

If you are running your own tech startup, you will first need to look for investors. No company can survive without money, so you need to find the people who believe enough in your vision — or, at the very least, what you produce — to invest large amounts of their money.

How can you get them to do this? It will all start with the presentation that you give. As long as you have full faith in what you are trying to accomplish, finding the right words should come easy. But the key to a good presentation is all in how you prepare yourself.

Here are a few tips to help you create the best possible presentation for your tech startup:

• Keep it simple: You know your company inside and out, but it can often be hard to break down technical jargon into pieces that people not in the industry can understand. You don't want to get too wrapped up in the details, but instead provide potential investors with the big picture they need to focus on.
• Practice enough: The last thing you want to do is head into an important meeting and just wing what you are going to say. Whether you are on your own or it is a group presentation, practicing your talking points is absolutely essential.
• Show, don't tell: If you have a product or an app that you can show off in the moment, it will be incredibly effective to do so. This will give the investors a clear idea of where there money is going.

If you have your own tech startup and are in need of new custom database software, be sure to contact Kyo Logic today! Check out the rest of our website to learn more about the different services and products that we offer to our clients.

Hey everybody and welcome back! This time, we’ll be looking at the key upgrades that are part of FileMaker 14.

The greatest aspect of FileMaker 14 is how robust it is, as FileMaker does not restrict the number of networked Go or Pro clients. Technical limits will be decided by your own hardware and operating system, not FileMaker itself.

FileMaker 14 also allows you to protect your data by setting scheduled back-ups, which will run even when the software is being used. You will also have access to your data on a 24/7 basis.

As always thanks for watching, and be sure to check back here again soon for more helpful FileMaker tips and the latest industry news!