Sat.Nov 12, 2016 - Fri.Nov 18, 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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What do it do?

deal architect

I remember as a young PwC consultant, a manager who used to walk around and joke “what do it do?” as he reviewed our specs and our code. It was his way of reminding us to deliver what the customer.

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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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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

London, UK - November, 2016. Transformify, an online platform providing remote work to those who need it the most, announces a new partnership with Laboratoria , a Latin-American social enterprise that gives low-income women the access to education and work in tech, transforming their future and bringing diversity to the tech world. A great number of women in Latin America are unemployed or not employed officially, due to various reasons.

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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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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams try to find how their technology would solve real customer problems, is that machine learning is following a similar pattern of previous technical infrastructure innovations.

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Why You Can’t Search for a Job From a Remote Location

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation many times. A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.” I usually slip into counsel mode and tell them it’s a lost cause unless they’re truly committed to living in that city and if they are they should move there first and job search second.

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Can you acquire cloud DNA?

deal architect

Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite tells Diginomica And so I actually believe Oracle’s going to behave more like NetSuite in the future than NetSuite’s going to behave like Oracle. Every company wants cloud DNA. It’s the only DNA we have.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams try to find how their technology would solve real customer problems, is that machine learning is following a similar pattern of previous technical infrastructure innovations.

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Five Office Updates You Can Make To Boost Culture And Productivity

YoungUpstarts

by Catriona Harris, CEO of Uproar PR. Can the number of windows in your office be affecting employee morale? Does a second computer monitor have a direct connection to an employee’s overall happiness? Over the years, many studies have demonstrated the significant impact that office environment can have on employee productivity. As Millennials inundate the workforce, business leaders must begin to consider office space as a physical representation of their company culture in order to attract top

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Get Beyond Their Comfort Zone

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “ terror barrier ,” as popularized by Bob Proctor, a 75-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.

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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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Understanding Privilege – My Experience in Prison

Feld Thoughts

A month ago Mark Suster (Upfront) and I hosted 75 colleagues for a full day at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County – also known as Lancaster. We did this as part of Defy Ventures , an entrepreneurship, employment, and character development training program for currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, and youth. It was a top 10 peak life experience for me – easily one of the most profound things I’ve experienced to date.

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Traditional Marketing Is Still Alive And You Should Be Using It!

YoungUpstarts

Have you heard? Traditional marketing is dead. I know, sounds pretty dramatic right? Well before you put on your best black suit, think again. It turns out that reports of traditional marketing’s death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the opposite is true. Traditional marketing is alive and well, and you ignore it at your own risk. Now online marketing, SEO, and social media are all extremely important.

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7 Ways To Make Your People More Valuable Than Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors invest in people, not ideas. Customers buy from people, not companies. Employees rally for a great leader. As an entrepreneur, you need relationships to succeed. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. One of the best ways to build a good relationship with anyone is to make them feel important. One of my favorite authors, Brian Tracy, in his classic book “ No Excuses!

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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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Strong convictions, weakly held

The Equity Kicker

I first came across the phrase “strong convictions, weakly held” through Marc Andreessen, but a bit of Googling showed me it was originally coined by Paul Saffo , then Director of the Palo Alto Institute for the Future. According to this post he advised his people to think this way for three reasons: It is the only way to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward.

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5 Reasons Presentation Skills Are Important For Startups

YoungUpstarts

When you’re starting a business, there’s a lot to think about and do. Don’t overlook developing your presentation skills. Remember, you will need to sell this wonderful idea you’ve got at some point. An incredible presentation can go a long way to making you look like a successful, confident business owner. Presentation skills aren’t just about how you speak, they can include everything from keeping your files well organised and neatly presented, to how you address people, as well as how you pre

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Growing your B2B marketplace

Version One Ventures

This is the third in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the V1 marketplace meetup on October 20. Check out other posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies and Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces. When we talk about marketplaces, we’re usually referring to B2C companies – eBay, Uber, Etsy, etc.

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What do people do all day?

deal architect

Do you remember Grocer Cat, Farmer Alfafa or Jason the Mason? You don’t? Shame on you! Not really. I don’t blame you for not remembering what you may have read when you were very young. But in many ways, we.

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Interview on the Turnpikers Podcast

Feld Thoughts

One of the podcasts in my regular rotation is Turnpikers. Luke Beatty and Danny Newman – both long time friends – are doing an awesome job interviewing interesting people in the Boulder – Denver startup community. If you don’t know the area, Turnpikers stands for U.S. Route 36 (known locally as “36” or sometimes “Highway 36”).

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5 Reasons Startups Should Be Using Explainer Videos

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve probably noticed that explainer videos are becoming increasingly common all over the Internet, including on websites and on their social media pages. So if you run a startup business right now, you should be looking into hiring the right team, like the pros at Spiel , to create high quality explainer videos that you can post and allow others to share to help promote your brand.

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14 Resources to Help You Start a Home-Based Business

Up and Running

Home-based businesses are wildly popular, and for good reason—how else are you going to start a business with minimal overhead costs and tons of flexibility? Maybe you already have a great idea for a business you could start out of your own home, and you’re eager to learn more. Or, maybe you don’t really have the idea part nailed down, but you love the concept of a home-based business.

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Are You Unknowingly Self-Sabotaging Your Success?

YFS Magazine

Are you feeling like you want more income and impact, but you’re afraid you’re too burned out to handle the workload?

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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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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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The Beginner’s Guide to SaaS Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

When we talk about conversion optimization , much of the strategies remain the same across industries. After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. That said, there are some key differences in how experts approach SaaS conversion optimization. This won’t be a complete guide (hardly anything that bills itself as “complete” actually is), but I’ll point out links in each section for further reading.

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The Art Of Managing Big Personalities (And Huge Egos) In The Workplace

YFS Magazine

Big personalities and bigger egos might be difficult to manage, but people like that also have definite strengths that can be an asset to any company.

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Have an Idea for a Subscription Company? 9 Ways to Tell If You’ve Struck Gold

Up and Running

We’re big fans of the subscription business model here at Bplans—after all, our product LivePlan is subscription software that helps you write a business plan. That being said, as popular as the subscription business model may be, it’s not foolproof. It is still completely possible to come up with a subscription business idea that just doesn’t work.

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Congrats On Your Acquisition! Some Thoughts On Data Integration And More.

YoungUpstarts

By Ron Faith, president and CEO of Datacastle. Earlier this year, my company acquired another company’s assets. The process, if you’ve never been through it, can be quite exhilarating. Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in.

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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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3 Sure-Fire Signs You Need To Hire Someone ASAP

YFS Magazine

Here are 3 signs that will help you determine if you need to outsource, delegate, and hire help right now.

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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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The Essentials Your Startup Needs To Be A Business Success

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business is something that takes a lot of hard work and dedication, but on top of this there are a number of key factors you need to include in your setup in order to put it on the right path to success. Some of these require expert support as well, so if you want to know what these involve, read on to find out more. A Solid Business Plan.

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Free Money | Supporting Entrepreneurial Non-Profits

VC Adventure

At Pledge 1% our mission is to encourage entrepreneurs and companies to give back to their communities through the donation of equity, product, profit and time to non-profits. We launched this program less than a year ago we already have over 1,000 members of our community. And it’s growing quickly. As entrepreneurs ourselves we’re always looking for new and innovative ideas that help us achieve our mission.

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This Overlooked Advertising Strategy Pays Off For Startups

YFS Magazine

I’m not sure I’d believe any successful entrepreneur who tells me that sharing their work wasn’t a part of the reason why they succeeded.

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How to be a dictator enforcing sales offer deadlines

Berkonomics

Everyone who manages a company or its sales force wants to write as many new deals as possible, and is usually warry about doing anything that might threaten the positive outcome of a pending sale. So, it is common practice to leave an offer containing a discount open, following up. Deadlines are an important sales tool. periodically to attempt to nudge a prospect into signing.

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