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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

I’ll start by taking you to the world of Startup X, a passionate team of entrepreneurs who believed they had the next big thing in the world of software as a service (SaaS). User experience The success of a SaaS software product largely depends on how well it meets the needs of its users. How to design SaaS UX?

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. ” It means that you’ve followed good practices — simple things like building small, decoupled pieces of functionality or not distributing mutable state across your codebase.

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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

One way to meet a variety of stakeholders’ needs and embrace the latest technology is to plan a multi-cloud environment by design, creating a modern data architecture that is capable of serving the broadest possible range of users. The software should be able to integrate data from the cloud and execute both in the cloud and on-premises.

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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. I just read your post on Fixing the Obamacare site.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures.

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

YoungUpstarts

As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.