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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

The project to project nature of the gig economy marries perfectly with that of engineering and architecture. Freelancing has already cleared the hurdles in tech — let’s unpack why now is the time for freelancing to reshape architecture and engineering. Companies can bid on more projects. Why globalization works.

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. TSM: What kind of traction are you getting and can you share some examples of your product impact?

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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. But startups rarely have either luxury.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Renzoe Box

Austin Startup

I love architecture and beautifully designed spaces. There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. I’d also be teaching architecture, which I was doing up until I founded Renzoe Box. Architecture and design are my true passions.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The company, which originally focused on the development of VoIP solutions for mobile telephones, develops software to aggregate social network input into a single cellular application without taxing the phone’s battery. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,