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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

For Kenny Shin , the chief technology officer of direct-to-consumer alternative asset management company Fundrise, some of the most exciting technological advancements in recent years have been in structured query language tools. What Is SQL?

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

ConversionXL

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. It took two years, but a team finally won. A world of real-time predictions.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. We have a deep technology stack. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. Matt Sherman.

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