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10 Key Business Domains Where ‘Big Data’ Looms Large

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. billion websites, and e-retail sales surpassed 4.2 trillion U.S.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

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Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA. Almost by definition.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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Meanwhile, Amazon famously claimed 1% fewer sales for each additional 100ms of latency. Framework Benchmarks. We created our Web Framework Benchmarks project because we’ve run into situations where well known frameworks seem to cause significant performance pain for the applications built upon them.

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10 Questions To Lead You To Timely Successful Change

Startup Professionals Musings

If entrepreneurs answer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stay ahead of most of their competitors in the startup world: What is the “secret sauce” that my startup brings to the problem? Just because Google sales hit $1.5 Your passion is necessary but not sufficient to motivate real change.

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Protecting the environment. Data is the new weapon of defense.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. The incumbents have expensive product features to maintain and often expensive sales channels. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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10 Key Business Domains With ‘Big Data’ Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Protecting the environment. Data is the new weapon of defense.

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