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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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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College.

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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. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. We have a deep technology stack. Wooden blocks.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? net implementation.

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Min.us Wins Babson Student Business Of The Year Award

Campus Entrepreneurship

He has years of experience in SEO, online marketing, operations and management. His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Shortly after, he served as Director of Technology at Progress Software. Later he served as CTO at AppZero. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon.

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