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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning?

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Are there complexities revolving around algorithms or databases? Were they finished on time and on budget? Beware of being swayed by big-name firms or impressive name-dropping. While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Selecting a Web Development Company

SoCal CTO

Do you have some complexity around algorithms, database? Don''t be swayed by big name firms or other kinds of name dropping. You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. Or are you starting from scratch?

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. A world of real-time predictions. For some, the age of “real-time” predictive analytics is here.

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Jonas Weigert on A/B Testing Beyond the Landing Page (Q&A)

ConversionXL

LawnStarter is one such company, so we sat down with their CTO, Jonas Weigert , to learn about how they experiment across their product and communication and how they deal with optimization as a company. They have a ratings system and build distribution algorithms to best distribute lawn care providers to customers.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.

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