Wed.Oct 28, 2020

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Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

TechCrunch

Caryn Marooney. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. In prior roles she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus and co-founded The OutCast Agency, which served clients like Salesforce.com and Amazon. More posts by this contributor.

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Gain Decision Advantage With Innovative Enterprise Software

CTOvision

For over 10 years CTOvision has consistently provided strategic context on the nature of technology and how to best leverage it for your personal and business objectives. We maintain the […].

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MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

TechCrunch

We’ve seen our fair share of business intelligence (BI) platforms that aim to make data analysis accessible to everybody in a company. Most of them are still fairly complicated, no matter what their marketing copy says. MachEye , which is launching its AI-powered BI platform today, is offering a new twist on this genre. In addition to its official launch, the company also today announced a previously unreported $4.6 seed funding round led by Canaan Partners with participation from WestWave

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Scrum Guide Release 2020 – Scrum Guide Celebrates 25

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The. 2020 Scrum Guide Launch. Celebrating 25 Years of Scrum. Join Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber for a live event featuring the release of the updated Scrum Guide and celebrating 25 years of Scrum. Save Your Spot. Key Changes. The event will feature insights from Jeff and Ken, plus expert Scrum practitioners discussing the updates in the Scrum Guide.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Hebbia wants to make Ctrl-F (or Command-F) actually useful through better AI

TechCrunch

Deep learning has made tremendous strides in recent years, with new systems and models like GPT-3 offering higher quality interpretations of human language, empowering developers to use these concepts in more diverse applications. We can see these developments in our text-to-speech voice recorders and dual language translation apps, which have gotten shockingly good these days.

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Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang

TechCrunch

Thuan Pham, who stepped down as Uber’s chief technology officer and longest-serving top executive in May, has a new job in South Korea. Coupang , the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO. For Pham, joining Coupang, a SoftBank-backed unicorn that holds a 24.6% market share in South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce in the world, is a departure from his original post-Uber plans.

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How Hacker News Crushed David Walsh Blog

David Walsh

Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog , and our metrics tell an interesting story. Here’s what happened, why, and what you can do to prepare your site for traffic surges.

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Pulumi raises $37.5M Series B for its cloud engineering platform

TechCrunch

Seattle-based Pulumi , one of the newer startups in the ”infrastructure-as-code” space, today announced that it has raised a $37.5 million Series B funding round led by NEA. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group and Tola Capital also participated in this round, which brings the total investment in the company to $57.5 million. The new investment follows the launch of Pulumi 2.0, which got the company closer to its vision of becoming what the team calls a ‘cloud engineering p

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How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team

DevOps.com

If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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LA-based MarketerHire upgrades its service matching remote marketers with companies

TechCrunch

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. . “Today’s startup economy depends on the expertise of industry specialists as much or more than full-time generalists,” said Nick Green, co-founder and CEO Thrive Market, MarketerHire customer and investor, in a statement.

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Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform

CTOvision

Data platform Splunk today announced that it has acquired two startups, Plumbr and Rigor, to build out its new Observability Suite, which is also launching today. Plumbr is an application […].

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Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he doesn’t want you to know much about

TechCrunch

Mike Wiacek is back with a new company, a year after departing his role as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company. Wiacek spent 13 years at Google, founding the company’s Threat Analysis Group, a unit dedicated to countering government and state-backed hacking efforts, and also co-founding Chronicle, which was rolled into Google Cloud after a series of high-profile executive departures , including his own.

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Threat Hunting as an Official Cybersecurity Discipline

SecureWorks

Threat Hunting as an Official Cybersecurity Discipline Now that threat hunting is recognized as an official discipline by NIST, Secureworks explains what that means for companies who want to implement threat hunting, supplement their own programs, or partner with others. Now that threat hunting is recognized as an official discipline by NIST, Secureworks explains what that means for companies who want to implement threat hunting, supplement their own programs, or partner with others.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic

TechCrunch

Kandji , a mobile device management (MDM) startup, launched last October. That means it was trying to build the early stage company just as the pandemic hit earlier this year. But a company that helps manage devices remotely has been in demand in this environment, and today it announced a $21 million Series A. Greycroft led the round with participation from new investors Okta Ventures and B Capital Group, and existing investor First Round Capital.

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How Service Mesh Enables a Zero-Trust Network

DevOps.com

How can we achieve high-grade security within a microservices ecosystem? Service mesh may be the answer Enterprise applications often assign an identity to humans to determine security clearances. Using standards such as OpenID Connect and SAML, we can delegate authorization scopes across a suite of applications to determine precisely what a user is permitted to […].

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App management startup AppFollow raises $5M Series A round led by Nauta Capital

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AppFollow , an app management startup, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Barcelona’s Nauta Capital, alongside existing investors Vendep Capital and RTP Global participating. The Helsinki-headquartered company says it benefitted during the pandemic and even in April 2020 as the desire for automation and apps exploded. It says it now has 70,000 clients on its platform globally, including McDonald’s, Disney, Expedia, PicsArt, Flo, Jam City and Discord.

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If Your Network Traffic Is Continuous, Why Isn’t Your Synthetic Testing?

Kentik

Reliable networks are the sine ne qua non of modern business using digital technologies, clouds, and the internet to build and deliver services. In other words, if the network is not doing its part, success becomes unattainable. Synthetic monitoring was adopted to fulfill the need to achieve some level of confidence that the network is delivering a good experience.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Streetbees raises $39M in a Series B round as brands race to interrogate Pandemic-hit consumers

TechCrunch

Streetbees started out as an app for consumers to snap pictures of supermarket shelf layouts and get paid. Consumer brands wanted to know if the supermarkets really had put them at eye level or not. Quickly, the startup realized it could interrogate consumers about how they felt about the brands themselves, turning their app into a new way to track consumer attitudes.

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NLP Libraries for Malayalam Sentence Tokenization: An Exploratory Study

QBurst

Imagine that you are working on machine translation or a similar Natural Language Processing (NLP) problem. Can you process the corpus as a whole? No. You will have to break it into sentences first and then into words. This process of splitting input corpus into smaller subunits is known as tokenization. The resulting units are […]. The post NLP Libraries for Malayalam Sentence Tokenization: An Exploratory Study appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Scopely raises $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation as gaming grabs investors’ interest

TechCrunch

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. Acting as if there’s not still a global pandemic raging throughout the world, some of the largest institutional financing firms like Wellington Management, TSG Consumer Partners, CPP Investments, and funds managed by BlackRock poured more money into

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Tableau Software integrates with Einstein Analytics for powerful data analytics

CTOvision

Tableau Software has announced it will bring together Tableau and Salesforce’s Einstein Analytics, providing customers with access to a broad and deep analytics platform. Einstein Analytics will be renamed to Tableau […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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3 lessons from Root’s IPO pricing

TechCrunch

Last night neo-insurance provider and former startup Root priced its IPO at $27 per share, $2 per share ahead of its $22 to $25 target price range. According to Root, it sold 26,830,845 shares in its IPO, including 24,249,330 from the company itself. Its underwriting banks have the option to buy another 4,024,626 at the IPO price, less “underwriting discounts and commissions.” The remaining shares are being sold by existing shareholders.

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A Sobering Message About the Future at AI’s Biggest Party

CTOvision

Read why researchers say that deep learning, which led to great advances in AI over the past decade, is nearing its limits and new approaches are needed for further progress […].

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Shotcall picks up $2.2 million to let fans game with their favorite streamers

TechCrunch

The pandemic has resulted in a growth spurt for gaming , an industry that was already growing on the backs of esports and Twitch streaming. So it makes sense that startups big and small are flocking to the industry to find their own place in the ecosystem. One such company is Shotcall , founded by Thomas Gentle, Gordon Li and Riley Auten, which aims to increase engagement for streamers by giving their fans what they really want: a chance to play alongside their favorite content creator.

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Experience Parity for the Hybrid Workforce

IDC

In the Future of Work, a hybrid workforce is a fact. Succeed as an organization by creating parity in your future plans.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Outrider raises $65 million to bring its autonomous tech to distribution yards

TechCrunch

Outrider, a startup aiming to bring its autonomous technology to the nerve center of the supply chain, has raised $65 million in funding just eight months after coming out of stealth. The Series B round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and brings its total funding raised to $118 million. Other existing investors increased their investments, including NEA, 8VC and Prologis Ventures, according to the company.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

CTOvision

“I have to do everything myself, and I don’t have time to fix all of this.” The CEO who said that to me was a successful entrepreneur who had grown […].

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Priori raises $6.3M to help large companies hire outside legal help

TechCrunch

Priori Legal , a startup rethinking the way that large corporations hire outside counsel, has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding. Founded by CEO Basha Rubin and CPO Mirra Levitt (who met while classmates at Yale Law School), Priori launched as a legal marketplace for small and medium businesses before finding its current model in 2016. Rubin explained that although Fortune 500 companies have their own in-house legal teams, they still spend an average of $150 million a year on outside legal

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