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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

Cloud adoption among the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) segment will be one of the fastest in the regions, as these enterprises are attracted by the relatively low set-up cost involved, helping them build their companies quickly. Some key questions that you might want to ask when deciding to join the Cloud include: 1.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing. the role of SWIFT in international wire transfers). Headcount.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. The new, professional CEOs were unwilling to let go of the most basic assumptions driving the cost structure of their businesses.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The distribution techniques are completely new. Not only is the app “locked-in,” but so is the navigation know-how, which clearly creates switching costs for new entrants.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. They may [.].

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said.