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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

TechCrunch

In fact, the San Francisco-based company started out in solutions-based journalism, providing content around communities and people who wanted to drive outcomes. When Countable pivoted in 2017, Canaan Partners invested in the seed round and assisted the company’s transition into an enterprise SaaS organization.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

The start-up boom post-2008 provided the skills to business to continuously innovate and pivot [ pivot ] fueled by the financial crisis of 2008 [ 2008 ]. In the academic and non-academic literature there are many definitions of resilience [ Wang-2017 , Hosseini-2016 , Holling-1996 , Martin-breen-2011 ]. Systems Resilience. hbr] [link].

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO

Operational costs in Phoenix are 36% less than in California, according to the Phoenix Business Journal , making it an appealing spot for tech companies looking for a less expensive home base for headquarters. There’s strong traction with tech jobs in the financial services industry, as banking turns more to digital transformation.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 130 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. From 2013-2017 and 2010-2014 he was among the ten most-cited faculty in the field of Commercial Law.

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Error'd: Anno Domini

The Daily WTF

Second, an innovative repurposing of a castoff fowl appendage into a drunkard's delicacy (and Mlle Simpson's famed befuddlement). not have been the worst fraud in 2016 (or 2017, or 2018, or 2019) but apparently they're now tightening down the screws on consumer lending. previews our column of bad online journalism data.

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Gorilla Logic to Sponsor 2023 ‘Women Who Code Medellín’ Software Development Program

Gorilla Logic

In 2013, the Wall Street Journal and Citibank named Medellín the world’s most innovative city in the world , beating out cities like New York and Tel Aviv. In 2017, a government study on entrepreneurship in Colombia found that early-stage startups had already generated nearly 8,000 new jobs.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.