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Beam Impact raises $13.3M to turn everyday purchases into a way to support social causes

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Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

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Christian Ciceri is a software architect and cofounder at Apiumhub , a software development company known for software architecture excellence. Before joining Thoughtworks, Neal was the chief technology officer at the DSW Group Ltd., Rene Weiss – Software Architect, Consultant & CTO at FINABRO.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

And that should be the focus of the founders -- to find the special fit that will make your company take off. When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. in Computer Science.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

I should say that I initially spoke with WaveOne’s cofounders, CEO Lubomir Bourdev and CTO Oren Rippel, from a position of significant skepticism despite their impressive backgrounds. ” Is it very likely that anyone is going to sign on to a single company’s proprietary video compression methods?

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Research Results: Key software architecture metrics

Apiumhub

If you remember my article about Software Architecture Quality Attributes , you know that we have been conducting a survey to find out key software architecture metrics that leading companies and software architects use. Eoin Woods – CTO @ Endava. João Rosa – Strategic Software Consultant @ Xebia. Coherence. .

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Summary from the 30 July Analyst Forum

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Attendees came from the finance sector, media outlets, ecommerce companies, retail companies, the heathcare sector, the scientific research community, law enforcement, plus multiple government agencies including DHS, DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines ), NRO, DIA, NGA, NIH, NCI, DoT, Treasury, State, VA, HHS, and many others.