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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

With that said, I thought it would be great to share Sin-Mei’s insight and wisdom with our blog community. Instead of asking three questions as we did with Bala, we’re going to take a very deep dive into a critical topic: code quality. What follows below are Sin-Mei’s words on how she (and Shippo) define code quality.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. This is how much you spend to get a new customer.

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A Board Effectiveness Checklist Helping Community Banks Better Fulfill Their Responsibilities

Board Effect

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Board orientations should include a review of the duties of care, loyalty, and obedience.

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A Board Effectiveness Checklist Helping Community Banks Better Fulfill Their Responsibilities

Board Effect

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Board orientations should include a review of the duties of care, loyalty, and obedience.

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Running Front-End Experiments

YoungUpstarts

Instead of trusting our gut experiments use metrics and data to validate our beliefs. Changing the information requested on the form is not an option so the team comes up with a potential solution that could be coded via JavaScript: a progress bar showing how much of the application remains. A mixture of both is needed.

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10 Reasons Why Traffic to Your Small Business Website is Dropping

Up and Running

An example of a website traffic issue due to an algorithm update would be a case in 2012 when several websites experienced huge drops in traffic. Tracking code errors. Is your tracking code properly implemented and working? NGINX: Check this blog on the NGINX website about Creating NGINX Rewrite Rules. Server overload.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Then, you may begin to promote your items on your blog and social media profiles.