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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

socalTECH

Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. Read more… ??

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Eano’s Stella Wu is not your typical construction tech startup founder

TechCrunch LA

Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar They were not reliable and bad at communication.”. trillion-dollar industry.

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XPRIZE: 32 Teams Competing For Shell Ocean Discovery Prize

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The XPRIZE Foundation , the group which has been organizing prize-based competitions to help advance critical areas of technology to benefit mankind, announced on Thursday that it has 32 teams from 22 countries who are competing for its $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. READ MORE>>.

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7 Reasons That Worker Empowerment Rules The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a different view, I urge you to see the data presented in a new book, “ The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace ,” by Phil Simon, a globally recognized authority on technology, collaboration, and the future of work. Immigration to the US has sharply declined.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Ajay Royan told Bloomberg in 2017 that Mithril does not “charge excessive fees.” Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said.

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