TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. Last week, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced that it was terminating plans to acquire razor startup Billie following a U.S.
Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 18, 2021
Innocent communication mistakes can leave a lasting impact on your team. Avoid these common communication mistakes that sabotage teamwork and degrade trust. Have you ever heard yourself muttering these words, only to realize later it was an innocent communication mistake? “Oh, she […]. The post 5 Tragic Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Teamwork appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. The new round — a Series C — for the Hyderabad-headquartered startup was led by Salesforce Ventures, the venture arm of the American enterprise giant.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 18, 2021
January is a month often dedicated to planning, setting intentions and preparing ourselves professionally and personally for a fresh year. In my own capacity as a DevOps and SRE leader, many of the clients I work with will reinvigorate internal efforts to streamline how they work in Q1. I often advise clients to make very […]. The post 4 Ways to Scale DevOps in 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.
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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
Once overlooked, agritech startups are beginning to have a moment in India. On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. Prosus Ventures, formerly known as Naspers Ventures, led Patna and Gurgaon-based startup’s Series C financing round.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
Volopay , a Singapore-based startup building a “financial control center” for businesses, announced today it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding. The round was led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, and included participation from Soma Capital, CP Ventures, Y Combinator, VentureSouq, the founders of Razorpay and other angel investors.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 18, 2021
WANdisco advances strategic alliances with leading cloud providers, partners and customers to automate the migration of petabyte-scale Hadoop data lakes to the cloud with zero downtime SAN RAMON, CA, January 18, 2021 – WANdisco, the LiveData company, announced a milestone with over 150 Live Data customers and 200 petabytes of data under management, the equivalent […].
CEO Insider
JANUARY 18, 2021
You won’t find this APP on your phone (at least not yet). This APP is an acronym for Accountability, Productivity, and Psychological Safety. During a four-year study in North America and the UK that involved working with peer advisory groups for CEOs and business leaders, I pressure tested the Five Factors common to high-performing groups […].
Dataiku
JANUARY 18, 2021
As data science, machine learning, and AI have become increasingly popular and competition begins to rise, companies are facing larger-scale projects and need to know where to focus their energy. According to polling results from a Gartner webinar in May 2020 , the majority of organizations have been maintaining or even increasing their investments in AI throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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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.
Cloudera
JANUARY 18, 2021
2020 put on full display how humanity shows up in times of hardship. We saw everything from street celebrations to usher weary medical personnel home after long days fighting to save lives to places like food banks receiving more donations and volunteers than ever before. Some communities were harder hit than others, and we’ve seen the same in the global workplace.
TechSoup
JANUARY 18, 2021
Over the last four months of 2020, I worked with a team of researchers, writers, and thought leaders to study how nonprofits are thinking about return on investment for technology. We published our findings — along with insights and analysis from leaders from across the sector — in December 2020.
Experience to Lead
JANUARY 18, 2021
Leadership lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr. focused on leading change and examining leadership and are as relevant today as they were in 1965 during the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. As we pause today to honor his memory and essential work, we revisit three timeless leadership lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. [.].
Sunflower Lab
JANUARY 18, 2021
Smit Vora Flutter Developer at Sunflower Lab. As we can see in current Mobile Application Development trend, Flutter has gain rapid growth in short span of time compares to any other Mobile application development framework. Earlier when any company or early stage start up pick Flutter for their upcoming Mobile Application Pro ject framework , they tend to rely on readily available features, give their developers to spend some time and provide a space to them so they can g
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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.
Netlify
JANUARY 18, 2021
Netlify, as a company, has always been at least 50% distributed. Even if you lived around the office you were able to work from hom for half of the week to make sure we were all comfortable being remote. Now, like so many of us, the team is 100% remote, and maybe you are too! Whether you’ve been remote for years or this is new to you, being on a distributed team can be taxing to morale and teamwork.
Arcserve
JANUARY 18, 2021
While cybercriminals may have paid lip service to stopping their ransomware attacks on healthcare providers during the pandemic, that never really happened. According to Health IT Security, the U.S. healthcare sector was the most targeted globally in Q3 2020, with attacks doubling year-over-year. And the costs are measured in millions of dollars and increased risks.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JANUARY 18, 2021
As the world continues to change, organizations can benefit from adapting their marketing strategies. Michael Stahl shares ten ways to make the most of your marketing efforts in 2021. Today’s post is by Michael Stahl, CMO at SERVPRO (CLICK HERE to learn more). The year 2020 brought both challenges and opportunities to marketing professionals. In fact, that’s probably an understatement.
Teradata
JANUARY 18, 2021
Payment data drives opportunities to increase usage & prevent attrition through hyper-segmentation, personalized interactions & optimized rewards programs. Read more.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Perficient
JANUARY 18, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a seismic shift in the tech world, with businesses adapting to new ways of working and accelerating their focus on new technologies. As we kick off 2021, we expect that rapid evolution to continue as the development and a.
Newgen Software
JANUARY 18, 2021
I recently had a chat with the head of the finance and accounts department of a company and he shared some of the issues that his department was facing despite automating the accounts payable process. They were experiencing delays in approving invoices, which was affecting the overall productivity of the department, along with some service-level agreement breaches.
The Agile Monkey
JANUARY 18, 2021
Vivimos tiempos en los que las grandes empresas tecnológicas se debaten en una guerra constante por obtener nuestra atención y nuestros datos. Para ello, crean sofisticados algoritmos que nos muestran el contenido más adictivo posible dependiendo de nuestro perfil e historial de conducta. Dado que el contenido más polémico o excitante suele ser el que más capta la atención, los algoritmos los priorizan, por lo que están nutriendo las mentes de la población de contenido tóxico o sensacionalista.
Daffodil Software
JANUARY 18, 2021
Gurugram, 18 January 2021: The software solutions company – Daffodil Software bagged the award for the Best Financial Services Mobile Application at the recently held annual Mobile Web Awards organized by the Web Marketing Association.
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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.
Openxcell
JANUARY 18, 2021
In the era we live in, options are given to us in hoards. Thus it is important for a service provider to always stay up to date with the wants and needs of the customer. In the quest of understanding the thoughts of a customer on a particular product, in this case, a mobile application , user interviews can be of great help. The user interview is basically a UX method in which the individual is asked a set of questions to figure out what he perceives of the application.
James Shore
JANUARY 18, 2021
Jade Rubick has an interesting experience report about the Single-Threaded Owner model of organization on his blog. I often saw issues where the engineering manager (EM) and product manager (PM) didn’t work well together, and these teams tended to do quite poorly. Generally what would happen is their managers would attempt to “coach them through it”, but what would happen in practice is that those teams would just not work effectively for six months or more.
The Cipher Brief
JANUARY 18, 2021
(Photo caption: Full-size dummy LCTs, codenamed BIGBOB, moored in South East England before the Normandy invasion (British Imperial War Museums, photograph H 42527, public domain). . This article was adapted from a nonfiction postscript in Christopher Turner’s Lieutenant Barnaby’s Inflatable Air Force. Christopher Turner had a 25-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, during which he completed several sensitive assignments in the Far East, South Asia, an
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 18, 2021
Trying to expand your business during a global pandemic may seem like madness. However, you are an entrepreneur and you don’t want to rest on your laurels. Your ambition means that you want your startup to be able to compete with the already established industry rivals and you are eager for your venture to have a global presence. However, when the world is on more of a go-slow, people are less likely to part with their cash, and the economic markets have plummeted, it can be a challenge to see h
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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.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
Bustle Digital Group — owner of Bustle, Inverse, Input, Mic and other titles — could eventually join the ranks of startups going public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). During an interview about the state of BDG and the digital media industry at the end of 2020, founder and CEO Bryan Goldberg laid out ambitious goals for the next few years. “Where do I want to see the company in three years?
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 18, 2021
All sorts of people love the idea of owning their own business. However, starting from scratch requires a huge amount of time and effort, and there are simply no guarantees of success. This doesn’t mean that you can’t become an entrepreneur. A common approach that people take on is to open a franchise of their own. This way, you can become part of a larger organization that has already stumbled upon a formula for success.
James Shore
JANUARY 18, 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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