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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

ConversionXL

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Do more and more people use Feature X?

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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User Experience Testing: A Conversion-Focused Guide

ConversionXL

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Card sorting is a UX research strategy popular for information architecture. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down. Does it feel seamless and fun?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Five applications that should be platforms—Dropbox, Eventbrite, Backupify, Tweetdeck, and Squarespace

This is going to be BIG.

could all be little applications that built on top of the audience, offered by the organizer, that Eventbrite aggregates right at the start of the event participation process. The architecture easily allows you to drop in a blog on any page or have multiple ones across the same site.

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The next generation web, scaling and data mining will matter

BeyondVC

We are all smarter, broadband penetration is reaching critical mass, and open source and commodity hardware have become reliable alternatives to proprietary architectures and closed systems. Data mining and analysis is becoming a big thing to not only help companies create better services but also to generate more revenue per user.

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