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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

TechCrunch

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. If 10 people can go to an in-person group exercise class led by a very good trainer, then why can’t 1,000 people, or 10,000 people take a virtual class led by an Olympic champion or NBA legend?… What has not quite been cracked yet is the celebrity fitness class.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

The exercise taught me how to take a customer-first mindset to rethink your own operation and service delivery to drive different outcomes,” he explains. The common thread is clients focused on initiatives that have a positive social impact, Kennedy Vickers says. That has served me incredibly well.”

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AI Chihuahua! Part I: Why Machine Learning is Dogged by Failure and Delays

d2iq

Immediately the CTO jumps in and says they could build a recommendation engine to suggest items customers may be interested in; a 10% increase in sales thanks to product recommendations is definitely achievable. The CEO loves the idea and wants the CTO to work out the details with the team to figure out what they need to make it happen.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO

Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. BUiLT assembled a team of six senior tech leaders from BUiLT — five of whom were Black — and customized a program consisting of workshops, a panel event, and group exercises for the Amazon executives.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

And that is a process problem, it’s a social problem, it’s also a technical problem. In some organizations, this was considered low-skill work—just a mechanical translation exercise. Less, with full-time coaching. Because when you have a large environment, teams often form bottlenecks. And I help out with these things.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.