Wed.Nov 16, 2016

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Framework Benchmarks Round 13

TechEmpower

Round 13 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is here! The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. Yes, that Qt. We also congratulate the ASP.NET team for the most dramatic performance improvement we've ever seen, making ASP.NET Core a top performer.

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Expert Advice: 10 Tips and Tricks for a Successful Opening Day

Up and Running

There are few days more important in your business’s life than your opening day. Not only is it the day when all your hard work finally pays off and all the pieces come together, but your opening day sets the tone for your business’s future success. So, it’s important to have a strategy in place to make your opening day as successful as possible and begin brainstorming ways to create opening day buzz early on.

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Corporate investment in enterprise software

deal architect

I have long wondered when corporations, especially conglomerates, would become enterprise software/service providers in their own right. The track record is patchy. You see financial service companies like Bank of America and Fidelity offer payroll and benefits support. You see.

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Advancing Your Startup: Simple Technologies That Will Help Any Growing Business

YoungUpstarts

by Cameron Johnson. Technology is the key to improving how business is done in our modern age. With every new technological advance, savvy minds are always seeking to know how such advancements can improve how people approach handling business-related problems. When technology provides a company with a solution to one of these problems, this can often lead to improvements in the area of time savings, reductions in spending or an increase in profit potential.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Forget Luddite workers. Luddite customers are bigger roadblocks to automation

deal architect

In researching my recent book, Silicon Collar I expected resistance to automation to come from workers and unions, and from politicians trying to protect jobs. I was surprised major resistance actually comes from customers for a wide range of reasons.

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11/17: Sports, Startups, and San Diego: An Evening with Brad Feld

Feld Thoughts

If you are in the San Diego area Thursday at the end of the day I’m doing a public event with Techstars and San Diego Sports Innovators from 6pm – 7:30pm called Sports, Startups, and San Diego: An Evening with Brad Feld. It’s free but you need to register here. The post 11/17: Sports, Startups, and San Diego: An Evening with Brad Feld appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Browsers, bots and unlocking mobile e-commerce

The Equity Kicker

As the world becomes increasingly mobile centric, we still don’t have a great solution for long tail e-commerce. Smartphones now work amazingly well for Amazon and categories where we buy regularly enough to be bothered to download an app – but that’s fairly limited. In my case it’s limited to Uber, Hailo, Netflix, Spotify, Fy (one of our partner companies) and an app that lets me pay for parking on the streets of Islington where I live.

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Spotlighting the Need for More Women in Tech at the Texas Conference for Women

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills The Texas Conference for Women is not a technology conference. Historically it has focused on a diverse array of topics including career development, health and wellness, community connections, social impact, arts and culture and more. But this year, the conference had a bigger focus on women in technology. […] The post Spotlighting the Need for More Women in Tech at the Texas Conference for Women appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Mistakes To Avoid When Hiring A Business Lawyer

YFS Magazine

When you're ready to search for a business lawyer, here are five mistakes to avoid.

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Federal Grants Focus on Making the Tech Industry More Inclusive

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The tech industry has a diversity problem with Black, Hispanic and Asian employees making up just 7 percent, 8 percent and 14 percent respectively of the technology workforce in the U.S., according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report. And women make up 35.6 percent of the […] The post Federal Grants Focus on Making the Tech Industry More Inclusive appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Power Of Our Thoughts

Mike Michalowicz

It is a paradox. Success requires a clear vision. The more you can see it, the more likely you are to achieve it. I get it. In fact I believe in it so much that I repeat a “success mantra” every morning and ever night. I have a clear vision for what I have defined as success in my business, in my health, in my spirituality and in my family life.

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Curiosity, Confidence and Fearlessness Shaped Fashion Icon Diane von Furstenberg’s Life

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News As a little girl in Brussels, Belgium, Diane von Furstenberg did not know what she wanted to do when she grew up but she wanted to be a woman of independence who could pay her own bills and drive her own bus. She got what she wanted. […] The post Curiosity, Confidence and Fearlessness Shaped Fashion Icon Diane von Furstenberg’s Life appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Power Of Our Thoughts

Mike Michalowicz

It is a paradox. Success requires a clear vision. The more you can see it, the more likely you are to achieve it. I get it. In fact I believe in it so much that I repeat a “success mantra” every morning and ever night. I have a clear vision for what I have defined as success in my business, in my health, in my spirituality and in my family life.

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How to Rock Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Rock Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Viveka von Rosen. Poll a group of marketing experts and about half will tell you LinkedIn has little value in the marketing mix. My guess is that most that feel that way are only thinking of mining for and closing deals. Though a lot of business is done via LinkedIn selling, it’s also an important piece of your personal brand.

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More Words of Wisdom from Marc Andreessen

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Marc Andreessen , a brilliant entrepreneur, and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Rethinking The Way Companies Collaborate And Execute Business Processes

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Candito, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Companies today are hindered with difficult to use, siloed business systems that fail to simplify communication around processes and improve how businesses operate. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation.

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Hello world!

Altgate

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on Altgate Partners.

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4 Major Trends Which Improve Business Decisions Today

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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How to Create a Conversion-Focused Tone of Voice

ConversionXL

You’re likely familiar with the finding that over half of communication is non-verbal. So perhaps you won’t be surprised to learn that your copy is “saying” a lot more than you think it is. That’s because tone of voice is at play, influencing how visitors read your copy and relate to your company. Fortunately, tone of voice can be deliberately created, managed and optimized.

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The Election: With Change Comes Opportunity

Growthink Blog

Last week, I wrote about the Business Physical and of the importance of evaluating a business’ “red,” “yellow,” and “green” areas and proceeding, changing, and innovating accordingly. As I wrote that post, the most surprising presidential election result of my lifetime took place. Along with the political change that it represents, so does it foretell a changed landscape of opportunity for businesses of all types and sizes.