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Television, radio, billboard, and magazine ads were once the king of advertisement for businesses with huge budgets. But that all...

Courtney Boyd Myers is incredibly busy, organized, and talented. She leads audience.io, edits three newsletters, advises Second Home, pens columns on Medium, writes for The Next Web and The Daily Beast, and is a curator for Summit Series. Our favorite part: Courtney uses MakeSpace as her remote control home.

MakeSpace Founder and CEO Sam Rosen has a blog post on Re/Code today addressing the myth that technology will displace the American workforce. He argues that more and more startups are shifting from producing apps to reimagining real world problems and the industries that solve them, and that as a result, we’ve seen considerable growth in blue-collar jobs in the United States.

MakeSpace is a small but growing startup with a mission to provide innovative and affordable storage to New York City and eventually the entire country.  Over the past couple of months, some of our largest competitors have taken notice of the new kid on the block.  For a startup, that’s both a good thing and a scary thing.  Good because it means you’re doing something right.  Scary because it means that you’re David and Goliath now has you in his sights.

We’re honored that Tim O’Reilly featured MakeSpace as an example of a start-up that’s rethinking how real-world things work in his talk “The Internet of Things and Humans” at the 2014 Solid Conference. O’Reilly has also blogged about us.

Chris Lavergne is the Founder and Publisher of Thought Catalog. The website posts hundreds of articles a day from emerging and established writers. It publishes everything from fun “listicles” to experimental fiction to news and opinion. Since launching in February 2010, Thought Catalog has grown exponentially and now has over 30 million monthly readers. Chris—who’s direct, professional, and practically nonexistent on social media—gave us a glimpse into his life by sharing his MakeSpace bin’s contents.