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Business Strategy
What Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Learn From Payless's Departure
Entrepreneur - Charles Dimov
Blending online and offline fulfillment options is not only possible, it's an absolute must. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For more than 60 years, Payless ShoeSource catered
Entrepreneurship
Racial bias matters on crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and GoFundMe
phys.org - Molly Callahan
Crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or GoFundMe, are websites where people can make a public pitch for funding, either for a …
Technology
is yet another security disaster
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
One would think that having one of the most high-profile breaches in recent memory would make a company take security to heart, but Equifax is full of surprises. The latest is that its MyEquifax.com site,
Technology
Survey: the pressure is on IT to deliver digital transformation
ZDNet - Joe McKendrick
IT is being asked to transform their businesses, but not getting the budget to do so, survey finds. More than nine in 10 executives, 91 percent, …
Regulation Crowdfunding performed solidly in 2018. Here’s the data.
VentureBeat - Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors
Regulation Crowdfunding allows startups and small businesses to raise up to $1,070,000 online per year from both retail and accredited investors by using registered funding portals (or broker-dealers).
Technology
Timing and why we’re all VCs
TechCrunch - Danny Crichton
Timing is the single most valuable skill of the modern economy, but I would argue it’s the least understood and also the least practiced. Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition
Technology
Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
Like virtually every big enterprise company, a few years ago, the German auto giant Daimler decided to invest in its own on-premises data centers. And while those aren’t going away anytime soon, the company
Machine Learning
Open-Source Frameworks for Creating Machine Learning Models
hackernoon.com
Mina DownBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 31 Open-Source Machine Learning Frameworks With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for …
The Financial Power of Brand Preference
Forbes - Stephen Diorio
Brand preference creates firm value by measurably improving profits, cash flow, and share. If more financial executives understood the economics of customer behavior and the financial power of brand preference
Agile Data Science 2.0
oreilly.com
Chapter 1. Theory We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to …
Get started with Joplin, a note-taking app
opensource.com - 13 Jan 2019 Kevin Sonney Feed
There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year …
17 Data Visualization Tools for Web Designers & Developers
webdesigndev.com - Esha Nambiar
Designers are often tasked with presenting data. How do you present it in a way that can stand out when competing for data streams? Data is …
Solving mass data fragmentation problem should be a top CIO priority
cio.com - Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.
Last year, I wrote two posts on Network World about mass data fragmentation (MDF). The first one defined the problem, and the second one highlighted …
Multi-cloud maturity model
medium.com
Organizations will move towards multi-cloud at their own pace — here are the stages of adoption we’ve seen in the marketplace. Sid …
Mobile app integration for Online Office, Talk in the file sidebar and much improved sharing
nextcloud.com - Nextcloud
Technology
DigitalOcean launches its container service
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
It’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon this week, the world’s largest confab for all things cloud-native, containers, Kubernetes and DevOps. Every company that’s doing anything remotely related to those topics is
How to Apply Governance to Your Collaboration Tools
cmswire.com - pr@cmswire.com (Jed Cawthorne)
Governance can be a dirty word to some people, while others have built their careers around it. Depending on the context, it can have many meanings, …
Why Open Source Software is good for Small Business?
reviano.com
As a small business or a startup, you are always looking to improve your products and service while keeping the operating costs low. All companies …
The Big Problem With Machine Learning Algorithms
Bloomberg - Jon Asmundsson
Machine learning is enabling investors to tap huge data sets such as social media postings in ways that no mere human could. Yet, despite the …
Rocket.Chat and Nextcloud announce partnership and integration – Nextcloud
nextcloud.com - Nextcloud
Your teams are using email attachments, public chat apps, consumer file sharing tools and telephone to communicate and collaborate. Nextcloud puts …
Nextcloud 14 rolls out with two major security features
ZDNet - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Want a full-featured, easy-to-run, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud to call your own? Check out the latest version of Nextcloud. Cloud …
Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends For 2019
Forbes - Daniel Newman
Over the past few years I have made the commitment to looking forward to the year ahead to predict some of the most significant digital transformation trends. Knowing that digital transformation is not
Technology
US and intelligence allies take aim at tech companies over encryption
CNET - Claire Reilly
The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance wants tech companies to give them access to data and communications, saying "privacy is not absolute."
Crowd Funding
How much does a regulation crowdfunding campaign actually cost?
VentureBeat - Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors
I wrote this article because I was irritated by reporters calling me and saying, “I’ve heard that a Regulation Crowdfunding campaign is very expensive.” “Really,” I’d say? “Can you tell me who said that
5 Critical Success Factors for Raising Money Through Equity Crowdfunding
Entrepreneur - John Panaccione
This relatively new option can be a boon to entrepreneurs, if done right. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When President Obama signed the JOBS Act on April 5, 2012, it opened
Machine Learning Is A Moneyball Moment For Companies
Forbes - Barry Libert and Megan Beck
Put succinctly, the Oakland A’s baseball club was able to pick up undervalued players in order to overcome their capital constraints and competitors with deeper financial pockets. Beane reshaped his organization,
Insight Selling Is The New Solution Selling
Forbes - Falon Fatemi
In 2012, Harvard Business Review published a bold article entitled “The End of Solution Sales”. It declared that solution selling had become obsolete. The verdict was, in large part, founded on the argument
Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Work-Bench, a New York City venture capital firm that spends a lot of time around Fortune 1000 companies, has put together The Work-Bench Enterprise Almanac: 2018 Edition, which you could think of as State
Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics
TechCrunch - John Chen
When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s workplace where we spend most of our day, the purveyors
Startups
No QR Codes, No Wi-Fi, No Problem: How This Startup is Revolutionizing Data Transfer (and Customer Interactions)
Inc Magazine - Jeff Haden
Imagine you're a startup co-founder. You're developing technology that seems, well, almost magical. Your team is delivering. Some of the pieces of your product are in place. But still, you constantly questions