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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. the role of SWIFT in international wire transfers). This limits positive ROI DLT installations to lower volume/intermediated environments.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Akamai Going Forward.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The combination of the Internet and open source transformed the functionality in modern programming tools, increasing developer productivity 10 fold. And there are 2 billion people on the Internet. It didn’t stop there.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions.