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AI startups continue to dominate investor charts, but we shouldn’t let this overshadow growth in industry verticals 

The Startup Magazine

raises eyebrows and questions about what goes on under the bonnet at some of these high tech startups. On the one hand, this highlights the gold rush around technology and the risk that startups are tempted to oversell their use of AI to attract more funding and clients. It also shows that due diligence has never been more important.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. Useful measures like number of bugs created and number of bugs fixed are viewed with suspicion that they will be used unfairly in annual reviews (or gamed by clever programmers in anticipation of annual reviews or performance bonuses).

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over – [link]. – [link].

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.

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The Power Of Mattering

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 03:48): And what I found was that the anxieties and, and fears I was feeling were also being felt in Alaska, in Maine, in Washington state, in Jackson, Wyoming, in Cleveland, Ohio, in Florida, in Texas. Well, uh, two have become tech experts for me. Like this show?

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Transcript of Why Customer Service Must Come from the Heart

Duct Tape Marketing

Jeanne Bliss: Alaska Airlines for example, has something they call We Trust You toolkit, which is an app with options. And it’s that humanity, but blending the high tech and high touch. I got a review on Amazon from my Chief Customer Officer 2.0 Their CEO says, “Look, we trust you. You’re in the moment.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

On his website, he states that, “new technologies – robots, software, artificial intelligence – have already destroyed more than 4 million US jobs, and in the next 5-10 years, they will eliminate millions more. Technology is going to displace many more workers than it’s going to create opportunities for in the coming months and years.