Ryan Holmes

By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and…

— Ryan Holmes

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers.…

— Ryan Holmes

Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.

— Ryan Holmes

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

— Ryan Holmes

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

— Ryan Holmes

Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and…

— Ryan Holmes

As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a…

— Ryan Holmes

While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles.…

— Ryan Holmes

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

— Ryan Holmes

I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues…

— Ryan Holmes

During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our…

— Ryan Holmes

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.

— Ryan Holmes

Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are…

— Ryan Holmes

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

— Ryan Holmes

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and…

— Ryan Holmes

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

— Ryan Holmes

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and…

— Ryan Holmes

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of…

— Ryan Holmes

A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do…

— Ryan Holmes

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

— Ryan Holmes

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically…

— Ryan Holmes

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing…

— Ryan Holmes

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.

— Ryan Holmes

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in…

— Ryan Holmes

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

— Ryan Holmes