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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models. CEO Perspective.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

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This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

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The Need For Software Localization Still Prevails

Startup Professionals Musings

All implementation should be done in Unicode, with user interface, currency, date formats, and database considerations for all the languages required. In addition this person should report, dotted line, to product development or engineering. Begin parallel translation early. Measure the return versus the investment.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But that amount of automation ñ given the fact that we have to create a new sub-domain, a new database, and copy physical files ñ would take a substantial amount of time to develop and QA. After your product launch. Point #1: Developing a Proof of Concept. So we tossed it. Let's look at each one.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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First Person: My Career in Marketing

The Startup Magazine

I had been working as a consultant, building databases for a Fortune 1000 company. In some places a marketing career position might mean real access to product development, business strategy and eventual management roles; in others marketing is little more than acting as a wage slave for the sales team. ” Identity items.

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

As a result, their databases are a veritable hacker honeypot, with hackers able to utilize and sell the information. Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. Furthermore, the focus must be on the operating system, database, storage, and other attack-prone systems.