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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

The rest is just down and dirty algorithmic programming. " From Groovy/Grails :: Ruby/Rails :: 2011 State of the framework : Rails and Grails are both excellent frameworks with their current releases. It won't be significantly different in most languages. Misconception #2 - "Ruby is the obvious choice."

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

There is no proven formula or algorithm but there are a few critical success factors. Karen Reddington is Regional Vice President of FedEx Express, South Pacific, a position that she assumed since June 2011. There is no hard and fast rule for becoming a successful innovator and pioneer.

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Consistent Revenue Growth At Core Of Google’s Mobile Advertising Strategy: TBR

YoungUpstarts

Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.

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Industry breakdown of jobs subject to computerisation

The Equity Kicker

Sophisticated algorithms are gradually taking on a number of tasks performed by paralegals, contract and patent lawyers, particularly by scanning thousands of documents to assist in pre-trial research (Markoff, 2011). Estimates by MGI suggest that sophisticated algorithms could substitute for approx 140m knowledge workers worldwide.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing. It has an algorithm that analyzes your visitor stream in real-time and provides you with a simple list of precisely which keywords you should be targeting to maximize your organic search growth. Aaaah yes…the search.

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The Future of Ad Tracking: Navigating the Google Analytics Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

And so there are more and more of these tools Now, at some point these need to be managed, and Google came out with a tool in 2011 already called Google Tag Manager, which they basically take these JavaScript tags as they're also called and put them into one tool so you can manage them correctly. Julian (09:50): CRMs, absolutely.

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What YouTube Taught Me About Facebook Live & Violent Footage

Hunter Walker

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. Remember, we weren’t proactively reviewing videos so it was a question of user flagging and other algorithmic determinants which put a video into the review queue. which are likely occurring.