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The Need For Empathic Business Leadership In The COVID Environment

YoungUpstarts

When the world is facing a life-threatening virus that spreads through physical contact and could infect anyone, the business community has a chance to hold the mantle of economic support for everyone in need. Layoffs seem an easy way of cost-cutting. But that doesn’t seem to be happening, especially when we get to hear such news.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language. For every programming language, there’s a community surrounding it, making certain languages better suited for certain industries. Source: Pexels. Speed and Scalability.

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

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. Back in the 60’s, JFK make a bold proclimation that we were going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Your consultant, in turn, will walk the fine line of giving you the answer you want to hear while raising the scope and cost of the project, possibly even creating milestones along the way, ensuring an ongoing, gainful relationship. The cost of adding too much “scalability” up front is a more complex product, harder to test and maintain.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We co-founded MState (fka hyperfab, read Coindesk article ) with Rob Bailey to help bring enterprise company building expertise and Fortune 500 connections to the blockchain community. Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. Simulating production environments. Since Vert.x

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