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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Hemafuse in action.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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Transcript of Why Continuous Learning Matters for Today’s Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

So it is an increasingly global community. So it has become increasingly global over the years. Matt Cooper: We have focused in on creative as our real sort of core vertical and core area of expertise over the last 12, 18 months, in particular. John Jantsch: Yeah, I guess that was my next question.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

Austin Startup

IBM’s global research lab packs a lot of cognitive computing power, including AI/ML solutions for elderly care and composing music. In addition to Dell and IBM, global brands such as Amazon, Apple , Oracle, Facebook, and their mother have set up sizeable offices in Austin. The talent, however, cuts the mustard.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

At the time, I had a blog that became popular about traveling around the world and living in this orphanage out in Africa. And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. So maybe maybe kind of unpack the model globally and then we can kind of jump into a few things. So I guess we kind of have to go back to the title.

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Best Web Analytics 2.0 Tools: Quantitative, Qualitative, Life Saving!

Occam's Razor

I know of no other way to achieve one's global maxima on the web. It uses one of the largest sources of data in the world and can be an excellent way to understand Traffic, Search Keywords, and Also Visited data for a Chinese site or one from Brazil or South Africa. Experimentation and Testing Tools [The "Why" – Part 1].

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