article thumbnail

Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing. We love this! Clearly we're seeing a new Microsoft.

article thumbnail

Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Insights: Why UBER Matters, A LOT

socalTECH

For today''s Insights and Opinions article, where we regularly share the thoughts and observations of Southern California''s high tech movers and shakers, we have an article from Ivan Nikkhoo of Siemer & Associates. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." - Milton Friedman.

article thumbnail

Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

socalTECH

In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers. READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

Overcoming Santa Barbara's Tech Talent Bottleneck

socalTECH

Santa Barbara, one of Southern California's technology centers, has a unique problem: how do you scale out your technology staff, despite intense competition from the firm's large number of technology companies, expensive cost-of-living, limited real estate, and a fairly long trek from the rest of the region for commuters? READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Startup 111
article thumbnail

Demand Media Gets New Competitor, Yahoo, After Associated Content Buy

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Both firms develop "evergreen" articles about popular topics, which they then sell advertising against.

Yahoo 150