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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Ambr wants to solve the billion-dollar burnout problem by tracking employees’ working habits

TechCrunch

The company is demoing its wares at TC Disrupt this week as part of the Battlefield 200 , and we caught up with the founders before and during the event to take a closer look at an early iteration of its product. . This is a problem that Ambr is setting out solve, with a platform that promises to address worker burnout preventatively.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

Panorama Consulting Solutions, which regularly surveys businesses on the outcomes of their ERP projects, shows in its 2022 report that 81% of projects met ROI expectations a year or more after go-live. That’s made it hard for the team working on the ERP upgrade to keep up, so early in 2022 Invacare decided to put the project on hold. “We

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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

Firemon

The Rise of the ASIC The Appliance Becomes the Standard Security Goes Mainstream Book a Demo Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon By the early 2000s, proxies had lost, and stateful inspection dominated the market. The primary benefits included: Appliance platform: Security teams could own the hardware, OS, and software of an appliance deployment.

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5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

HackerEarth has 8 years of experience conducting hackathons across industries, and it took the team only a short time to regroup and work out a process for conducting these events online. . Allow me to share these lessons we learnt from running 200 remote hackathons: Lesson 1: Developers LOVE fighting real-world challenges with hackathons.

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How Do We Cultivate the End User Community Within Cloud-Native Projects?

Honeycomb

If you’re not familiar with the discourse, most of this conversation so far has centered around the most classic model of open source: the solo unpaid developer who maintains a tiny but essential library that’s holding up half the internet. Small developer-centric companies see these weaknesses as strategic opportunities.

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Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better

Github

Key takeaways for developers and software teams. SPACE reveals patterns and describes developers’ days holistically. Showing patterns to developers helps them see what’s a Good Day for them. Appendix: Good Day survey. There’s more to development work than writing code. Executive summary. Key findings.