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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

This challenge has put immense pressure on CIOs to not only manage ever-growing data volumes, sources, and types, but to also support more and more data users as well as new and increasingly complex use cases. data and application integration, metadata management, governance and data quality). Integration Approaches for Data Agility.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5,

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry didn’t practice any kind of textbook management, but he was an intense communicator and inspiring leader. The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. He liked to experiment with novel management ideas, like competing teams. Larry just blew them away.

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Fake it Til You (Have To) Make it

Austin Startup

Your system architecture is unlikely to be your UVP (Unique Value Proposition) but it’s necessary. Swinmurn had proven product/market fit before setting up a warehouse, buying thousands of shoes or building out a complex inventory management systems to handle the supply chain. But what if you didn’t have to do it all (yet)?

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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. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. Matt Sherman.

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