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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media buyers, to software and services providers and wireless companies.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

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Insurance is the next big industry due for a disruption. Celina Kirchner is a full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP (M&R), a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Francisco, Chicago and New York. by Celina Kirchner, full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP.

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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. When Uber started out, they focussed solely on hailing black cabs in San Francisco. They raised a whopping $2.4 billion Series D round giving the company a valuation of about $14 billion!*

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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What Data From 62,000 Payment Forms Says About Boosting Online Sales

YoungUpstarts

In April 2017, we reviewed 62,000 random form submissions from 97 different industries to see how form length, device choice, and prices affected conversion rates. First name, last name, street address, city, state, and zip code take you to six fields. These metrics don’t mean you should advertise on desktop rather than mobile.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

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Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Requirements: You must have an iPad or a car, create an account, download the AdMobilize app and be ready to advertise the brands you like.