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Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era

TechCrunch

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. Startups that provide services like camper vans, private campsites and trail-finding apps became relevant to millions of new users when COVID-19 shut down indoor recreation, building on an existing boom in outdoor recreation. Startups like Outdoorsy, AllTrails, Cabana, Hipcamp, Kibbo and Lowergear Outdoors have seen significant growth, but to keep it going, consumers who discovered a fondness for the grea

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“The main rival, Bitcoin, is very primitive compared to Ethereum”, Rob Zel, Bitni’s founder claims

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The launch of Bitcoin over a decade ago opened up opportunities for the development and launch of a ton of other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum being the foremost. Often compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum 2.0 is a truly decentralized P2P (peer-to-peer) blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. Transitioning from the energy-consuming and inherently flawed proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum […].

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How To Set Up the Perfect Therapy Office

Strategy Driven

Having the perfect office can make your therapeutic sessions a lot better. If your practice is still new and you started off by just renting office space, it can be stressful to arrange and set up everything needed. You also need to think about your patients and how they would feel when entering your office. The atmosphere should be calm and relaxing.

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Sommelier gets $1M R&D grant from The Graph to deliver blockchain market data improvements

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Sommelier, a decentralized finance (DeFi) blockchain protocol and Ethereum bridge that acts as a co-processor to the Ethereum world computer, has announced a $1M Research and Development grant from The Graph Foundation. The grant will fund ongoing Research and Development of indexing performance, protocol optimizations, and improvements to the Graph Node.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Key Costs Of Business Expansion You Need To Be Prepared For

Strategy Driven

Expanding your business is incredibly exciting, but it’s also a huge risk. If you miss the mark and your plans for expansion don’t play out the way that you hoped they would, you could lose the business. Usually, this happens because companies don’t budget for the cost of expanding or they overestimate how much their revenue is going to increase. You can’t take anything for granted and there is always a chance that your revenue will grow much slower than anticipated, which means you need to budg

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How to Meet Customer Expectations when Demand is High

Strategy Driven

Soon after opening a business, you’ll realize that running it is the hard part. You have to keep up with customer demands, make sure that employees are well taken care of, and everything runs smoothly. Sometimes demand will fluctuate, but you still have to predict and meet customer expectations because when you don’t, you will lose them.

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AWS debuts OpenSearch project following spat over Elastic licence

CTOvision

AWS has unveiled the OpenSearch project – a community-driven open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana – in response to Elastic changing its licensing terms for these at the start of the year over what it regarded as AWS exploiting its open-source code. The newly announced project includes OpenSearch, which is derived from Elasticsearch 7.10.2, plus […].

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What does it take to create a startup ecosystem?

TechCrunch

Say it louder for the people in the back: As tech grows bigger by the minute and venture capital adds dollar signs by the day, a startup hub’s success is not an either/or situation. The next Silicon Valley is a tired narrative, when in reality startups look, innovate and create differently all over the world. On that note, my colleagues spent the past few months digging into the market in Detroit, Michigan: The StockX EC-1.

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Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company

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Dell announced this afternoon that it’s spinning out VMware, a move that has been suspected for some time. Dell acquired VMware as part of the massive $58 billion EMC acquisition (announced as $67 billion) in 2015. The way that the deal works is that Dell plans to offer VMware shareholders a special dividend of between $11.5 […].

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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.