March 6, 2016
There’s more to early-stage funding than VC money
Good companies will always get funded. If that’s your company, it’s important to make sure you have the resources to keep it alive long enough to get funded.…
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March 5, 2016
Want to compete with Salesforce? Buy Marketo
There are several enterprise players that want a share of Salesforce’s business, but just aren’t making headway by knuckling up against the company’s dominant, entrenched SaaS CRM offerings.…
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How to politely ask people to get the f*ck off their phones
You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not…
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Why browser extensions change the way we work
Browser extensions change the way we work. They alter facets of your job by changing the experience of the apps on which you rely so they conform to…
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It’s the end of “euphoric times” for custom app developers
For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value).…
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Reports of the death of apps have been greatly exaggerated
One of the problems with technology maturation frameworks like the Gartner hype cycle is that you never know where you stand. That is certainly the case with mobile…
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What Lending Club’s falling share price means for the P2P lending sector
Lending Club, the largest P2P lending platform in the U.S., has seen its share price drop by more than 50 percent since December 10; the price per share…
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Are site reliability engineers the next data scientists?
It’s no secret that “data scientist” is one of the hottest job titles going. DJ Patil famously proclaimed data scientist “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” before…
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Mobile Companies Are Just Getting Started
It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation…
Read articleFebruary 28, 2016
How Smart Founders Can Take Advantage Of The Platform Shift
About 15 years ago, the Internet triggered a platform shift in the delivery of enterprise software; a wave of cloud startups quickly unseated the kings of the server…
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