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As the tech industry evolves and matures, all sorts of new opportunities are created for entrepreneurs, who see where existing technologies don t meet a need or don t go far enough to deliver what customers demand. But taking a good idea and developing it into the latest app one that works and then getting customers to buy it is a challenge that kills a lot of enterprising start ups before they get off the ground. Chris Jordan is the founder of Omnidek, an all in one business platform geared toward the construction industry that consolidates all the apps a company needs to run its expense reports, payroll, project management and so on and merges them onto a single system. Chris got the idea for this platform when, after several years selling software to construction companies and realizing all the inefficiencies of having multiple software systems, he was watching a movie about the early years of Facebook s founding and thought ,"If this dude can make 80 billion I can make 1 billion." D Marcus Glasper is Vice