Sat.Sep 24, 2022

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Startups are building businesses out of DevOps tools for existing sales platforms

TechCrunch

The growing market for sales tools has given rise to a curious cottage industry: DevOps startups specifically targeting the software used in sales and marketing functions. (Here, “DevOps,” refers to tools that automate processes between software development and IT teams.) It’s become a blossoming sector all its own, with vendors selling DevOps platforms for software including Salesforce purporting to make sales tech easier to integrate into a company’s existing workflows.

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How to Make and Measure More Impact with Data

TechSoup

With all of the time and resources that nonprofits pour into creating their programs, it's important to know whether these efforts are creating the change you need. Are you serving the communities you set out to serve? Are you meeting the requirements of your stakeholders? The answers to these questions probably exist within your organization's data, but the challenge is knowing how to make sense of it.

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Why Economies Become Less Dynamic as They Age

Harvard Business Review

Mancur Olsen’s 1982 classic, “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” offers a startling lens on what’s gone wrong with the U.S. economy.

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Cloud Infrastructure for Open and Resilient Capital Markets

IDC

IDC's Thomas Shuster unpacks how trusted capital markets of tomorrow rests on the successful co-adoption of cloud, DLT, BPaas and other technologies.

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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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The case for US venture capital outperformance

TechCrunch

John Zic. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John Zic is a partner and founding team member at EQUIAM. He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. Shachi Shah. Contributor. Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. She is passionate about leading design, implementation and oversight of actionable strategies unlocking synergies, leveraging untapped efficiencies and fosterin