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When in Doubt, Leave it Out (Why Less is More)

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If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. My recommendation is to have an 8-12 slide decks with only the most critical factors of your business. The great thing about the VC pitch deck is that you can have 30 slides. Too many people have 15-20 slides.

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

Adding a method to an interface would mean breaking all existing code that implements the interface. It is not necessary to specify the "abstract" modifier, as this code does, in order to qualify as a functional interface. They were considered for Java 8 but were not included, for simplicity and due to time constraints.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. gave him my favorite, "keep it to six slides."

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg.