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Switching costs: A competitive advantage?

Berkonomics

And are you prepared to help with concessions if needed? Email readers, continue here…] Recently, I received a hand-written letter from two co-CEOs of a company I had helped with a few hours of time. Pull out a piece of stationery that had been sitting unused for over a decade and write in longhand? What to do?

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Framework Benchmarks Round 22

TechEmpower

btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference. So the user can write its business code with high level of abstraction and safety, but the framework core could be tuned to the assembly level, to leverage the hardware it runs on.

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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

As Ben Adams writes in his article detailing the achievement , that is 23 times better than prior to the start of optimization work within the framework! We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing. If you're not watching, you would have also missed how much emphasis the ASP.NET team is putting on performance.

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5 Tactics To Help You Make Good Decisions In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

While you may schedule an hour for your team to talk about the relative pros and cons of every option, you'll get much richer input if you have them each spend that hour writing up their feedback Be brutally honest about the challenges you all face. Being prescriptive can help people get to the right outcome faster.

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Don’t Underrate The Value Of A Startup Plan Document

Startup Professionals Musings

If you don’t have the time to write things down, or your writing skills leave something to be desired, don’t be afraid to get some help. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Increasing competitive advantage? A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap. Bottom line – if you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! It might be.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

socalTECH

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?