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Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

By definition, if you're a startup founder you're explicitly not your customer. Repeat after me: You are not your customer." — Eric Ries , Lean Startup leader (repeating a conversation with a startup founder). Now: How many do you suppose are decent pieces of software that basically work? (My We think differently.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. So first a short list of some key definitions.

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Enough with the "expert" guilt

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Penelope Trunk pushed me over the edge when she wrote that for the last two years she's been schlepping around a Harvard Business Review article called "The Making of an Expert" because: "The article changed how I think about what I am doing here. I didn't know anything about peer code review before starting Smart Bear.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

To understand what Social CRM is, let us first consider this definition by Metz: The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. T = Tools, the myriad platforms and software needed. P = People and your relationships with them. O = Objectives, ie what your brand wants to do.

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[Interview] Michael C. Fillios, Author Of “Tech Debt 2.0™: How To Future Proof Your Small Business And Improve Your Tech Bottom Line”  

YoungUpstarts

Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise. Here is some of our conversation: Most of us are familiar with the term technical debt. Yet, unlike large companies, most SMBs lack the resources to staff an IT department.

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Deciphering the Code of Your VC Conversation Location

Genuine VC

But not all conversations with venture capitalists are formal pitches, nor are they expected to be. The signal here is that this breakfast meeting is not a pitch meeting, but likely more important that a pseudo-coffee conversation in the VCs office. And sometimes it’s unclear if it’s a pitch meeting or not.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

Instead of asking three questions as we did with Bala, we’re going to take a very deep dive into a critical topic: code quality. What follows below are Sin-Mei’s words on how she (and Shippo) define code quality. How do you define code quality? or “What does code quality mean to you?” Functional quality.