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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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Below you can see social sharing encouraged by Parachute who use this to drive 40% of purchases from direct vs. referred traffic and with much lower marketing budgets are able to drive 500% more content engagement than Bed Bath & Beyond’s social channels. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition).

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How to Make Better Reference Calls

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Reference calls. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process.

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Why it’s Critical That you Reference Check Your VC

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How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? Get a reference list - Most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. Some VC’s will go out of their way to give you all their references as Fred Wilson says in his post.

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RFaxis Ties With Silicon Labs On Reference Designs

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Irvine-based RF semiconductor developer RFaxis has rolled out a new reference design with fellow chip maker Silicon Labs , to support a new Internet-of-Things application. RfAxis said its RF front-end reference designs connect with Silicon Labs' ZigBee and Threat EM35x mesh networking products.

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Qualcomm Debuts Reference 5G Drone

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San Diego-based Qualcomm has rolled out a reference design for a 5G enabled drone, the Flight RB5 5G platform. The reference design is designed to help manufacturers developed advanced drone systems that support 5G connectivity, which can enable things like drone swarms and drone-to-drone communications.

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Semtech Rolls Out Reference Design For Indoor LoRa Gateways

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Camarillo-based analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer Semtech has rolled out a new reference design for its line of LoRa low power wireless products, with a design for indoor wireless gateways for its LoRa protocol. READ MORE>>.

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Everything about Java 8

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Static method reference: String::valueOf. Non-static method reference: Object::toString. Capturing method reference: x::toString. Constructor reference: ArrayList::new. The method reference forms are shorthand for the other forms. Method reference. Equivalent lambda expression. String::valueOf.

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