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SAP Data & Analytics Analyst Summit - a review

deal architect

I had flown to a similar event in Vancouver - first to Seattle, then taken a bus across. I was invited to an analyst summit on SAP's Data and Analytics portfolio of products. What a remarkable difference from last year!

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Making The Most Of Your Business Capital

YoungUpstarts

Often, this starts with the right virtual call center platform or call center software. For example, if you live in the city of Seattle, a Google search for “ restaurant equipment Seattle ” could help you find well-reviewed restaurant supply outlets that have high customer satisfaction.

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Why ‘Fairness’ Matters in Techno-Optimism, How To Successfully Take Time Off Between Jobs, and Why ChatGPT Changes the Lives of Indie Developers [linkblog]

Hunter Walker

Sentences like these are often defending the argument: “It’s OK that wealth inequality is increasing (due to the actions of free markets, btw), because poor people have more stuff now than ever before” (phones, cars, refrigerators are typically-given examples). Velocity is the fuel of a software project. It feels good to build things.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. This entails reviewing aspects like business development, offer development, prices, and customer communication, and monitoring one or two key metrics (eg sales per day, sales conversion rate, leads per day, etc). Nuts and Bolts.

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[Review] The Good Fail

YoungUpstarts

Richard Keith Latman – now the founder of Latman Interactive and CEO/co-founder of iMagicLab, a Maryland-based software company focused on the auto industry – did go through a spectacular fail. But as long as we learn the lessons from his experience, Latman would probably call it a good fail.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . trillion is spent in the local government procurement market, but billions are wasted due to scarce competition and outdated processes. .