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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S. In hindsight, the Klarna CEO advises that it’s always smarter to foster competition in a round.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S. In hindsight, the Klarna CEO advises that it’s always smarter to foster competition in a round.

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Exceeding the Benefits of Complexity? A Fractal Model for the Social Business Era

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

and SOA is one that I deeply explored in the 2005-2007 timeframe, and my ideas on this even made the cover story of the SOA/Web Services Journal at one point. A collapse of a monolith, consumed by its own growth and complexity? As against the simpler, fractal approach of ecosystems? This fractal aspect of user systems, Web 2.0,

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Xicom

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Apiumhub organizes the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona, October 10, 2019

Apiumhub

There will be technical talks by leading software architects from USA, UK & Spain , panel discussions and debates! Mark has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics. . George Fairbanks. Global Software Architecture Summit: Schedule.

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Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile

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Later, they were popularized by Mike Cohn and his book Agile Estimating and Planning published back in 2005. Mike Kohn advises to choose two values (like 1 and 3 or 2 and 5) that everyone agrees upon. That might happen because of uncertainties about the product itself or the technical solution of the task. Source: Mike Cohn.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Capacity to Change The NY Times piece about how the Obama administration failed to get as much traction for its ideas as it would have liked says, “The biggest miscalculation in the minds of most Obama advisers was the assumption that he could bridge a polarized capital and forge genuinely bipartisan coalitions.”