thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don’t underestimate the commitment it takes to become an entrepreneur. Ask yourself these questions before you dive into a new business endeavor. Today’s post is by Tim Mercer, founder of IBOXG, and the ForbesBooks author of Bootstrapped Millionaire: Defying the Odds of Business (CLICK HERE to get your copy). As COVID-19 causes layoffs and extends uncertainty about employment in 2021, many people are considering new options, reinventing themselves, or trying to decide whether working for t

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Getaway CEO Jon Staff said that while the startup’s offerings weren’t designed with a pandemic in mind, they turned out to be well-suited for a time when people were eager to find safe ways to get off Zoom and out of their homes. Founded in 2015, Getaway builds “Outposts” — collections of tiny cabins in rustic locations within a two-hour drive of major cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles and New York.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this article, we look into the delay() function in C++. There can be many cases where we need to create a delay in our programs before exiting out of execution. We can use a delay for this purpose in our code which is used to delay the program’s exit time. We can call the delay () function when we want to exit our program after a given time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Unless you’ve got someone’s Amazon Wish List, gift giving today can still be fairly difficult. You don’t necessarily know a friend or family member’s shipping address, their sizes or their particular tastes, at times. A new startup called Goody , backed by a recent $4 million fundraise, wants to help. Through its newly launched mobile gifting app, Goody lets you celebrate your friends, family and other loved ones with a gift or, soon, even just an “IOU” that l

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Middle managers lead in a precarious situation. They don’t set the strategic priorities, but they’re accountable for getting it done—often without the influence to ensure they have all the resources they need. And, every day, their teams look to them for support, […]. The post One Crucial Skill the Best Middle Managers Master appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Having a CFO with a “head in the cloud” might be a good thing if we’re talking about cloud computing, cognitive technologies, and AI that has significantly influenced this role. The evolutionary path of the Chief Financial Officer continues with assuming the driving seat in companies’ digital transformation. Still, although they’ve come a long way, these professionals face a relatively steep road ahead.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Automattic , the for-profit company tied to open source web publishing platform WordPress, is announcing that it has acquired analytics provider Parse.ly. Specifically, Parse.ly is now part of WPVIP, the organization within Automattic that offers enterprise hosting and support to publishers including TechCrunch. (We use Parse.ly, too.). WPVIP CEO Nick Gernert described this as the organization’s first large enterprise software acquisition, reflecting a strategy that has expanded beyond new

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When the pandemic began, businesses were focused on putting their heads down and weathering an uncertain economic environment. For many, this meant a temporary freeze on hiring. As things thawed, hiring came back, but this time, it was virtual. A Gartner poll found that “ 86% of organizations were incorporating new virtual technology to interview candidates ” by the second month of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Late Friday, Oscar Health filed to go public , adding another company to today’s burgeoning IPO market. The New York-based health insurance unicorn has raised well north of $1 billion during its life, making its public debut a critical event for a host of investors. Oscar Health lists a placeholder raise value of $100 million in its IPO filing, providing only directional guidance that its public offering will raise nine figures of capital.

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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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Confluent

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One of the great things about using an Apache Kafka® based architecture is that it naturally decouples systems and allows you to use the best tool for the job. While […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The IPO frenzy is not letting up, Bumble informed the world this morning. Per a new SEC filing , the dating company raised its target IPO price range, indicating that its previous attempt to quantify its per-share value was an undershoot. This means we’ll need to calculate a host of new valuations and revenue multiples for the company. But more than that, we have a question to answer: Is Bumble aiming for a Match.com price, despite not being as profitable as its already-public rival?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Research has shown that as leaders rise up in the ranks , their proficiency in nurturing talent declines rather than increases. Why? Too often, they’re not promoted based on their managerial ability. They’re promoted because of the skills that allowed them to excel in their previous role—not in the role they’re about to step into.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Micromobility startup Helbiz , which now operates across Europe and the USA, is merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to become a publicly listed company, giving it a war chest to potentially roll-up smaller competitors in the space, as well as the resources to expand into “cloud” or “ghost” kitchens as part of a move into food delivery.

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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.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Ethena co-founders Roxanne Petraeus and Anne Solmssen began their company with a clear goal: There needs to be a more modern, and effective, way to deploy anti-harassment training to employees. Ethena’s solution is to send employees bite-sized monthly “nudges” or pings with five-minute lessons, replacing the usual one-hour annual workshop with more flexible learning.

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DXC

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We rang in 2020 with all the expectations that cloud computing would continue its progression as a massive catalyst for digital transformation throughout the enterprise. What we didn’t expect was a worldwide health crisis that led to a huge jump in cloud usage. Cloud megadeals have heralded a new era where cloud is a key […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

BeyondID , a cloud identity consulting firm, announced a $9 million Series A today led by Tercera. It marked the first investment from Tercera, a firm that launched earlier this month with the goal of investing in service startups like Beyond. The company focuses on helping clients manage security and identity in the cloud, taking aim specifically at Okta customers.

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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.

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Aqua Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is no shortage of myths in cloud native security, and we made our own list of the top seven cloud native security myths. Achieving compliance in the cloud and cloud providers’ responsibilities are the top two from that list.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We often hear about companies working to improve the customer experience , but for IT their customers are the company’s employees. Nexthink , a late stage startup that wants to help IT serve its internal constituents better, announced a $180 million Series D today on a healthy $1.1 billion valuation. The firm, which was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland and has offices outside of Boston, received funding from Permira with help from Highland Europe and Index Ventures.

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One of the main tasks any company needs to do is allocate resources. Regardless of the product or the industry they're in, they have to decide how to employ the assets they have to make money. No one has really "solved" this problem, and that's why there are swarms of resource planning systems, project management tools, and cultish trend-following.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

InEvent , a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. That’s just tiny fraction of the $125 million that online events platform Hopin raised last fall — in fact, a recent Equity episode suggested that Hopin might be the fastest growth story of the current startup era.

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IDC

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Internet of Things market continues to grow and evolve as enterprises re-prioritize digital resiliency. Explore the market landscape with IDC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Phable, a three-year-old health tech startup that is serving patients with chronic illnesses in India, has raised $12 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale in the world’s second most populated nation. Manipal Hospitals, one of the largest healthcare providers in India, led the Series A round in Phable. Existing investor New Jersey-headquartered SOSV also participated in the round.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the pandemic happened, and business and IT teams found themselves scattered and with a new playbook: make the organization as effective as it can be […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

Dataiku

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reinforcement learning is a technique largely used for training gaming AI — like making a computer win at Go or finish Super Mario Bros levels super fast. That's great, but to some extent, this use case isn’t very exciting or useful. Yet reinforcement learning is also the potential first step toward bringing intuition to AI in business contexts, filling the gap between abductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UK-based Isotropic Systems has raised a $40 million funding in an “oversubscribed” round that the startup says will help it get its next-generation broadband terminal to the production phase by its 2022 target. The funding, a Series B that brings the company’s total raised to $60 million, was led by SES and included participation form Boeing HorizonX, Space Angels, Orbital Ventures on the venture side, and that includes UK government grant support as well.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The digital revolution is making a deep impact on the automotive industry, offering practically unlimited possibilities for more efficient, convenient, and safe driving and travel experiences in connected vehicles. This revolution is just beginning to accelerate – in fact, according to a recent Applied Market Research study, the global connected car market was valued at $63.03 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $225.16 billion by 2027, registering a CAGR of 17.1% from 2020 to 2027.

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