TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Demetrius Curry has spent the last couple years chasing a dream. His startup, College Cash , allows brands to petition users to create photo and video marketing content highlighting their product or service, with the wrinkle being that content creators are paid by the brands in the form of credits that go directly toward paying down their student loan debt.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
If you knew your manager really cared about you and had your best interest at heart, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? Even if it was hard to hear? Every time we ask these questions in our leadership […]. The post How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Here’s what the transition to CPO means for everyone in IT Over the last 20 or so years, the evolving role of the CIO, or chief information officer, has been a hot topic of conversation in most large enterprises. It’s a topic that doesn’t just affect those breathing the rarefied air of the C-suite but […]. The post Why Your Next CIO Will Be a CPO appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Monzo , the U.K. challenger bank with just shy of 5 million customers, has recruited a new U.S CEO to head up its efforts states-side, TechCrunch has learned. Carol Nelson, who previously spent ten years as CEO of Cascade Bank and prior to that was a long time senior vice president of Bank of America, will start as early as next week, staff at Monzo were informed this morning.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Cryptocurrency pioneer and early Bitcoin thought-leader Diana Biggs has joined Swiss-based startup Valour , which lets investors easily buy digital assets through their bank or broker. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets. Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx spee
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced that it will release its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2021 ended January 31, 2021 after the […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Isaac Roth. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Issac Roth is a seasoned entrepreneur who advises founders on open-source technology and keeping communities engaged. Over this career, he’s created and sold multiple enterprise software companies and stays active as an advisor and investor. More posts by this contributor. How startups should budget in uncertain times .
scruminc
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
How The Agile Manifesto Came To Be. by Jeff Sutherland | February 11, 2021 | Blog. 20 years ago, I made a trip to Snowbird, Utah to join with 16 others who shared a goal; change the way our industry, software development worked for the better. Put customers first. Work in smarter ways. Deliver faster, more often, and better. . At that meeting, we created the four values and 12 principles better known as the Agile Manifesto.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
People don’t often equate gaming with dating, but maybe they should. As gaming continues to grow in popularity, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, a new startup called 2up is launching to help gamers connect both on and off screen. The app was founded by sibling duo Stephanie and Lincoln Smith, who have been gamers since they were young.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
There’s no better leadership textbook than a frustrating boss. And often, the world looks very different from their side of the conversation. In this episode, you’ll get valuable questions to ask and ways to work through your frustration to become a better […]. The post What to Learn from a Frustrating Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Tillit , a fintech startup that is building something akin to buy now, pay later for B2B purchases , looks set to become Sequoia’s next European investment, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley VC — which recently expanded to Europe with an office in London — is backing a €2.5 million round in the Oslo, Norway-based company, alongside seed investors LocalGlobe and Visionaries Club.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Apple and Google are under fire yet again for allowing scam apps into their curated app stores: Apple for permitting useless clone apps that sneakily charge recurring fees, and Google for not dealing with once-good apps that go rogue.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
With a stated goal of aligning the mortgage industry with consumer interests, Austin-based UpEquity has raised $25 million in equity and debt funding to expand its business. Chief executive Tim Herman started the mortgage lending company to take advantage of what he saw as inefficiencies in the $2 trillion U.S. housing market. Existing financial services and property technology companies treat the symptom and not the cause of market inefficiencies, said Herman.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Crate.io, developer and supplier of CrateDB, the purpose-built database optimized for use across IIoT environments and machine data use cases, today announced that it will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. This week felt oddly comforting from a tech news perspective: Facebook is copying something, early-stage startup data is flawed enough to talk about and sweet DoorDash is buying robots for undisclosed sums.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Multi-cloud success is more about what lies between the clouds than what's on the clouds themselves. These critical layers of software that exist between the heterogeneous mix of clouds your enterprise uses will need your full attention in the coming year.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Spacelift , a startup that automates the management of cloud infrastructure, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by London’s Blossom Capital. Polish fund Inovo Venture Partners and Hoxton Ventures are also investing. The Polish and U.S.-based startup is taking advantage of the opportunity presented by the increasingly complex cloud world, with what it dubs as an “infrastructure-as-code (IaC)” and a “policy-as-code” platform.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
IBM and Palantir Technologies on Monday announced a new partnership consisting of IBM’s hybrid cloud data platform designed to deliver AI for business, with Palantir’s next-generation operations platform for building […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Since M-Pesa’s mobile money infrastructure came into play in 2007, there has been a proliferation of fintech services ranging from wallets to savings and loans. With this mobile money ecosystem growing in double-digits year-on-year, a lot of data is being created in the process. But this has left some fragmentation, where one person’s information is diverse and can be accessed via multiple channels. .
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
A water system in Florida has been accessed by an unknown intruder who made an attempt to alter the chemical balances used to treat water in a way that could […].
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Human Interest, a 401(k) provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced Thursday that it has tacked on another $55 million to its Series C. The news is notable for a couple of reasons. For one, the San Francisco-based company had already raised $50 million across two tranches in 2020. Secondly, the majority of its existing backers joined one new investor — NEA spinout NewView Capital (NVC) — in pumping more capital into Human Interest.
Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
To learn MERN stack definitely adds value to your skillset. Most people are under the misapprehension that to be a … Read more >>. The post How to learn MERN stack appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. With Knife Fund III called the African Series B Expansion Fund, the firm seeks to directly invest in the aggressive expansion of South African breakout companies. It also plans to co-invest in companies across the rest of Africa.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Read John Webster take a look at the leadership conundrum at Amazon Web Services and how it will affect its dominance in the cloud computing arena on Forbes : Andy […].
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Building off TechCrunch’s coverage of the recent 500 Startups demo day , we’re back today to talk about some favorites from three more accelerator classes. This time we’re digging into Techstars’ latest three accelerator classes. What follows are four favorites from the Techstars’ Boston , Chicago and “ workforce development ” programs.
Dots and Bridges
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Utility executives and innovators believe the industry is poised for major change in 2021. In collaboration with Energy Central, the next episode of Anterix Industry Insights will take a deep dive into expert forecasts and analysis of this year’s key utility trends. Panelists Stephen J Callahan of GridBright, Ron Chebra of EnerNex & Stephane Bilodeau, Eng.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
If you’ve ever left a job, chances are you left your 401(k) plan along with it. And, if you’re like many Americans and change jobs every few years or so, you could have multiple 401(k) plans spread out at various companies, doing their own thing. Many of us don’t deal with the hassle of trying to consolidate accounts, which can lead to lost money over many years.
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