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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Bandwidth sufficient for efficient communication was unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. On the left is the Pentagon with highly connected data centers with high bandwidth. Joint Common Foundation.

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

Most companies don’t have the cash or bandwidth to support long development cycles and hire boatloads of developers. This is the model we see at software companies that are doing exceptionally well. The risk versus reward equation points to Levittown software. So stop trying to be two businesses.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

Telecom Operators will get a chance to become enablers for industry apps. Both cases will cause an increasing demand for highly skilled data network and software engineers. Carrier aggregation is used for increasing peak data rates by way of enabling wider bandwidth that is managed by grouping multiple frequency carriers.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. Today, the smartest CEOs are focused on building Boundaryless distributed teams.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Most potential customers visit your restaurant to find hours of operation, phone number for reservations, directions (put a map on your directions page and make it easy for users to get directions, right on your page – here is an easy way to add a map ), and a full menu (with prices). Think about your potential customers.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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