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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

Even if are not a software developer, hardware hacker or bio engineer – I am confident that you know people who are. The device is now used in six countries; in 3 states in India alone there are now 11,000 devices in the field, saving the lives of millions of babies each year. Readily available, cheap and easy to use.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.”

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation.

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On-Demand Money Making Business Model for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Supply Side and Platform relationship – To run a successful business, you’ll have to choose — whether to aggregate the existing small businesses or to contract the supply. For example, Uber has two stakeholders- passengers and drivers. It is easy to achieve the former. Final Thoughts.

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