Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Watching him develop over the past 4.5 The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

For those of you that may not know what the Microsoft PDC conference is all about, it is a developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. This could be considered the Mecca of sorts for all Microsoft developers. One of which was the support for open-source frameworks.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In reality, you need the numbers—and the hard truths they tell—to make essential business decisions about expenses, hiring, product development and every other important determination. If you create your financial model right out of the gate, you have a financial trail that you can refer back to—where were you and where are you now?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How will we find and interview developers?

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Here, when we speak of performance, we are specifically referring to the speed of the application in providing responses to requests.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Drucker, who famously said, “ Culture trumps strategy ,” I believe, was alluding not just to the characteristics of a business, but of the economic development of a city, a state, and a country. But Baer’s reference to “consumer internet,” is validated through this foundation of the consumer internet: eCommerce is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Yet, actors remain a main part to character development (based on personality), as well as the ‘performance’ of the film. With this new development, we often think of the dramatic roles of Gollum in Lord of the Rings and Caesar in this year’s release, Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Apes, played by Andy Serkins.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. Static method reference: String::valueOf. Non-static method reference: Object::toString. Capturing method reference: x::toString.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. If you don't want to use Guava, then wrap the modifiable Enum{Set,Map} instances in Collections.unmodifiableSet(set) or Collections.unmodifiableMap(map) and throw away the direct references to the modifiable collections.

Java 330

Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. The launch of their new Boxee Box in November and the user acceptance of that will be telling for their future development. But the whole market will develop more slowly as we watch this bum fight take place.

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