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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. The size of risk increases with third parties that rely on APIs and build on these interfaces, as this normally means the exposure of more services and credentials by companies.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. The five-day design sprint’s purpose is to quickly find out how customers react before investing too much time and expense.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. We now know how to crack the entrepreneurial code by creating an Entrepreneurship API - a standard language for entrepreneurs.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Agile Development. Object Storage : storage and retrieval of objects via an HTTP API without requiring mounting, partitioning or formatting Examples : Amazon S3 , OpenStack Swift , Ceph Storage. Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Technology. Affordable Technology. Cloud Computing. Innovation.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. The Rise of the Mobile Cloud.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. the  Google Prediction API ), communicate app services (e.g. the  Dropbox API ).

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