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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

TechCrunch

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has come a long way from being run out of a garage in Phoenix to now a 120-person company, valued at $1.5 Chang has now become Whatnot’s head of Growth, as a result of the all-stock deal that’s considered more of an “acqui-hire” as it doesn’t involve IP.

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Travelling Turns Smarter With Mobile Ticketing Apps – Here’s How!

Xicom

Also Read : A QUICK GUIDE TO HELP YOU WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. Including both smartcards and apps on smartphones, the leading mobile app development company made technology evolve significantly to offer an excellent alternative to paper tickets. . Time to delve a little deeper and unfurl the Key Market Trends “The Wearables”.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And here it goes: Let’s say you own a sports shoes manufacturing company and produced 5,000 pairs of shoes in the month of May. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business? After all, who doesn’t?

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And here it goes: Let’s say you own a sports shoes manufacturing company and produced 5,000 pairs of shoes in the month of May. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business?

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. People can certainly move between engineering and management, between engineering and product, between different areas of engineering, and so on.