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How Fresh Graduates Can Build A Tech Career

YoungUpstarts

by Nikhita Elizabeth Cyriac, Head of Talent Acquisition, ThoughtWorks. Salaries in tech are also soaring, with high demand for individuals who can bring specific skillsets to the table. There’s a great variety of niche interest groups in Singapore, ranging from DevOps to Agile and Data Science.

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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Software startups are most likely to exit as an acquisition.

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Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Steve Blank

For the first time in the history of modern civilization most of the technologies needed for the military are driven by consumer demand and the potential for profit—not government directives. It needs to use rapid/agile innovation, disposable systems that take advantage of innovations in the commercial technology base.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. Instead, their goal is to create a promising product.

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10 Fundamental Web Analytics Truths: Embrace 'Em & Win Big

Occam's Razor

Campaigns, tags, links, meta data (if any that might exist), data relationships, metrics, website url structures etc cause there to be a constant demand to make changes to the underlying structure of your data warehouse every single day. This allows you to do strategic analysis of you web acquisitions in context of retail, call center, etc.

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