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Holmes’ sentencing sends a clear message that the startup ecosystem must be built on good faith

TechCrunch

Sure, due diligence matters in the investment process, but lying about your capabilities can undercut the founder-investor relationship — and in extreme cases, to the detriment of the larger, global startup market. Soon she was the CEO of a company with a $10 billion valuation, but it turned out that the technology didn’t work.

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

The other is a new player in the ecosystem, Tacora, which announced the first close — $250 million — of its debut fund, which is targeting $300 million, to provide asset-based lending to venture-backed companies. They expect to invest in 25 companies, also similar to previous funds. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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American Airlines to buy 20 jets from Boom Supersonic

TechCrunch

The Concorde, which made its first supersonic flight in 1976 from New York City to London in three hours, was in the skies until 2003, when the Concorde made its last commercial flight, due to a number of issues with the jets. Besides Boom, other companies are exploring ways to bring this tech back to life.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

From the year 1981 to 1984, at Atari Corporation, a Console game company, Kay was the Chief Scientist. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 2003, ACM Turing Award. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books.

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IT Overinvesting – Is it Better to be Safe than Sorry?

Women on Business

While I haven’t read the book, an article on Reuters suggests that the book Aligning Technology with Strategy by Harvard Business Review advises companies evaluate their IT costs to prevent overinvesting. Specifically, companies should: “Spend less. Evaluate expected returns from IT investments.

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

And indeed, in most companies we can see that there’s a requirement for just one of these positions, with an overlap in responsibilities and abilities. The differences and lack of communication between these teams often impacted the product, which in return affected the end users and company. The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.

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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. I knew this wasn’t in the spirit of Agile, but the companies I worked with had strong walls between development and operations. and less well-meaning companies trying to make a quick buck. Evolutionary System Architecture” on p.XX Secretly, I was glad.

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