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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

TechCrunch

The good news is that the government is also in the dark about funding data; the bad news is that without good tracking, we don’t know how progress is being made. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development. Image Credits: Amazon / Microsoft.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem. For example, airline connections to Atlantic Canada can be tricky.

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

You need to have a difficult conversation with yourself, your leadership team, and your investors around how you’ll handle that. Bad middlemen squeeze the parties they connect; good middlemen squeeze technology. No need to interact with a human recruiter. And you need to have that conversation well in advance.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The increase in global IT sourcing is outpacing the rate of development of highly-qualified professionals in many markets 2 – salaries are increasing as there are more jobs chasing fewer high-qualified candidates, and turnover of IT staff is rising as people pursue higher compensation. Why governance?

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

elections, recruitment of terrorists, and online harassment. Security is usually taught as an elective, isolated from other classes about software development. Security as an afterthought doesn’t work in product development; why do we expect it to work in education? Developing guiding principles.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. This means gaining buy-in from stakeholders by developing a sense of urgency that will spark the initial motivation and get things moving.

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AoAD2 Practice: Adaptive Planning

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. We’ve already talked about the purpose of this team. But any team can use them.