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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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Customer empowerment? Blame the Internet.

Berkonomics

Especially for those of us producing forms of media for consumption, from books to movies to music to games to blogs to podcasts and more, our customers expect delivery in the form of bits over the Internet upon demand, usable on a multitude of devices, and sometimes stored and available in the cloud at no additional cost.

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HBCUvc founder Hadiyah Mujhid on one way investors can advance racial equity

TechCrunch LA

“We’ve created the HBCUvc Donor Circle as an opportunity for supporters and individuals to engage in our work and join a long-term strategy toward racial equity in venture capital and technology,” she wrote in the post. The program is expanding to Chicago in 2021, the blog post notes. Read the whole HBCUvc blog post here.

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Beachmint, PandoDaily Battle Over Story

socalTECH

It looks like the battle between Los Angeles e-commerce startup Beachmint and technology blog PandoDaily is flaring up into a major firestorm, over the accuracy of a story posted a couple of weeks ago by the tech blog.

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With Cornershop, Walmart Expands On-Demand Delivery to Latin America

Xconomy

The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We Walmart is taking the e-commerce delivery business south of the border.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

“ServiceTitan’s incredibly fast growth is a testament to the brisk demand for new mobile and cloud-based technology that is purpose-built for the tradesmen and women in our workforce,” said Battery Ventures general partner Michael Brown — who’s taking a seat on the ServiceTitan board.

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Joe Perez, Founder of @tastemade, On What Makes a Great Product Manager & More

Both Sides of the Table

He has a long career in developing products and companies (such as Pogo, Excite@Home, Demand Media, The Daily Plate and now TasteMade) discussed much about his career choices and lessons. Product management is a title that has become very common at technology companies - and can mean different things at different companies.

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