thoughtLEADERS, LLC
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Great leaders get the best out of their teams by providing 12 core leadership “services”. The best leaders provide these services in an efficient and effective way. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo and Victor Prince, authors of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results. Every leader wants to give their team all the help they need.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Are hybrid workplaces compatible with the workflow teams are trying to achieve, or does it help or hinder them from living up to Agile values and principles? The post The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Digital fitness and wellness company FitOn has raised $40 million in Series C funding led by Delta-v Capital, the company announced on Tuesday. FitOn is also expanding its reach in wellness by acquiring Tampa-based corporate wellness platform Peerfit. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Peerfit founder Ed Buckley will stay on in his current role as CEO.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
In physics, there’s a difference between “Speed” and “Velocity” While the first is a scalar quantity (the quantity itself plus the unit of measurement), the second is a vectorial quantity (quantity, unit of measurement plus direction). A metric called Velocity is used to measure the deliveries’ effort. In this short talk, I relate the physics … Continued.
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
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mini-apps are lightweight programs that run within a larger app and serve as additional sources of user engagement and revenue. They became popularized by “super apps” like WeChat, Alibaba and Grab. But not all developers have these tech giants’ resources. Based in Singapore, Appboxo wants to level the playing field. The startup’s platform lets developers turn their apps into super apps, either by building their own mini-apps or accessing them through Appboxo Showroom, a marketplace for th
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
As an Agile Coach at a fast growing startup, I faced the challenge to structure and drive the onboarding process remotely. Onboarding has proven to be an extremely demanding and tricky process even when conducted under normal circumstances: including for a completely remote company, it’s a common practice to have an offline interview and first … Continued.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Two months after taking on a monster $125 million Series A that propelled the company into unicorn territory, package delivery company Veho is back with another huge round — this time $170 million in Series B. Leading the round this time was Tiger Global, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 participating. This latest round gives the company $300 million in total funding raised in the past two years and a $1.5 billion valuation.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Your team is agile, but you work with many teams that aren't. If you find the resulting friction hard to remove, you're not alone. Many in the Agile community are facing the same challenges that you see: working with change-control processes that are really about change denial, having to wait until almost a release date … Continued. The post Don’t curse the river.
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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 15, 2022
Data indicate that the pace of startup value creation reached a fever pitch in 2021. According to venture capital data collected by PitchBook , prices spiked for startup equity across the maturity spectrum last year. The result of those rising prices was a huge gain in the pace at which paper wealth was generated. The rising velocity of value creation may indicate that rich entry prices for early startup investments will math out as similar pricing dynamics play out in the later stage of company
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
People speak different languages like English, German, French, Chinese etc. But is communication to bugs possible? It is important to understand them, because they really tell us something. There is valuable information underlying the defects of a software, and information mining from defects promises for improvements in terms of quality, time, effort and cost.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. But over time, the company realized that its digital general contracting and “personalized” homebuilding services could be applied to non-disaster use cases as well — especially in regions where there is a major shortage of inventory.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. .
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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 15, 2022
During the worst throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, very few people could travel. Meanwhile, both 2021 and 2022 were predicted to be the years of “revenge travel” where people would do a great deal more. Or at least plan more. In the background was a site that allowed people to travel virtually, either out of sheer interest, or to plan their own travel.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
I haven’t written much about AI recently. But a recent discussion of Google’s new Large Language Models (LLMs), and its claim that one of these models (named Gopher) has demonstrated reading comprehension approaching human performance , has spurred some thoughts about comprehension, ambiguity, intelligence, and will. (It’s well worth reading Do Large Models Understand Us , a more comprehensive paper by Blaise Agüera y Arcas that is heading in the same direction.).
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy, but many struggle to secure working capital loans because they don’t have traditional credit records or collateral, say the founders of Funding Societies. The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015.
Synopsys
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
In honor of Black History Month, we spoke with Aliou Niane of Synopsys to learn more about his experience and impact in the technology space. The post Black History Month: Uplifting voices at Synopsys appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The ability to rent all sorts of things is a logical step in the evolution of a subscription economy , but renting hardware wasn’t necessarily top-of-mind for startups until COVID-19 hit. Pre-pandemic, a common step in the onboarding process at many VC-funded startups in the Bay Area called for new employees to visit the closest Apple Store with a company credit card so they could pick up a new laptop.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Both containers and microservices are gaining immense popularity and becoming industrial norms for enterprise organizations. According to a study conducted by Statista , 19% of respondents said that containerization is already playing a strategic role for their business. Whereas, according to a survey on microservices adoption , 92% of respondents say that they had some success with microservices.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mundi, a financial services platform for cross-border trade, announced today it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures. . The investment marks Union Square Ventures’s first B2B investment in Latin America, according to partner John Buttrick. The New York-based firm has also backed the likes of fintech giants such as Coinbase and Stripe.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Goal-Driven Kanban enables teams to choose from and focus on challenging goals along their road. Teams are free to choose their pace and can take a break whenever is necessary. They can set a voluntary deadline for the goal chosen together with proper time allocation. Naturally, while pursuing the goal, teams avoid distractions, celebrate achievements, and retrospect frequently.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it’s no surprise Google shut it down in 2019. Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience — with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, also went down for some users. And in the last few weeks of 2021, Amazon’s AWS caused considerable global chaos after significant networking […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion. Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said.
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Back in the 90s, Steve was the head (i.e. only) programmer and CEO of a small company. His pride and joy was a software package employed by many large businesses. One day, a client of Steve's named Winston called him concerning a critical, show-stopping bug. CEO Head Programmer Steve was also the Technical Support Lead, and thus he faithfully took up the issue.
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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
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Miles Jennings. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Miles Jennings is the founder and COO of Recruiter.com, a recruiting solutions platform helping startups hire talent. If you’re successful at raising capital, investors have jumped into the passenger seat with you, ready to be taken on a journey. It’s likely a long trip, with the average time to a liquidity event being about five to seven years.
Kaseya
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
As a managed service provider, you offer more to your clients than just great service. From improving operational efficiency to maximizing productivity while maintaining IT security, you help clients deliver better customer experiences. However, if your clients cannot find you, how can they hire you? Increasing your website’s visibility should be one of your top priorities when it comes to driving higher lead conversions.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Alternative protein startups have attracted a lot of investor attention over the past couple of years and the trend looks set to continue. The latest startup with funding news is Next Gen Foods , the creator of plant-based chicken alternative TiNDLE. The company announced today it has raised a $100 million Series A that will be used to expand quickly in the United States and on its Singapore research and development center, which is currently under construction.
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