TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

For context, Eric Ries’ “ The Lean Startup ” was written in response to the 2008 crisis and promoted the idea of testing, building and managing a startup all at the same time, prioritizing minimum viable products over a perfectly buttoned-up platform to create faster, nimbler organizations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Mobile developers earned more than $260 billion on Apple’s App Store between its launch in 2008 and the end of 2021. So far, it has been doing this mostly by powering A/B testing for paywalls, but it has a broader road map, its co-founder and CEO, Vitaly Davydov, told TechCrunch.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Just as a diamond cannot be polished without friction, neither can you fully develop your skills without them being tested by adversity. View setbacks as a challenge to overcome rather than an issue or problem. Use obstacles and failures as an opportunity to polish your skills.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Nothing will test your metal as CEO more than your ability to make decisions. Knowledge : Knowledge is information that has been refined by analysis such that it has been assimilated, tested and/or validated. That said, nobody is immune to bad decisioning. We have all made bad decisions whether we like to admit it or not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

While this test is not as detailed as more comprehensive assessments, I have nonetheless found it to be fairly thorough. That said, any self exam is only as good as the honesty of those taking the test. While your character will be tested often as a leader, great leaders no there is no substitute for the truth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Goin’ retro, with a 15-year-old pitch deck : Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 , by Haje. Everyone was all excited about yesterday’s news about the Spotify DJ feature , and today, Spotify is bringing news that it is testing playlists that could be unlocked by NFT holders. Sarah has more. You can sign up here.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

History is littered with leaders of this ilk have not endured the test of time often. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. As I mentioned earlier, it is always important to remember that leading and being a real leader are not one in the same.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

ZEBOX CEO Gwen Salley told TechCrunch that along with access to mentoring, experts, business opportunities and funding, its incubator program gives startups opportunities to test their solutions and work with large corporations. The company says it has already reduced carbon emissions per container carried by 50% since 2008.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

This is so much the case that I have never come across a great leader who has stood the test of time that has not rid themselves of this debilitating habit. I have found that negative self-talk doesn't bode well for anyone, but especially not for leaders. Thanks so much for your astute insights Greg.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Let me be clear that I’m not advocating brand snobbery, just astute brand management based on time tested success principles. Intelligent brands create at least some level of focused planning surrounding the issue of access to prevent overexposure. Once a brand is overexposed it becomes commoditized, diluted, and ultimately.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

More than 15 years ago, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, which was acquired by Nasdaq in 2008, and another since-sold exchange called HedgeStreet, both announced they intended to offer something called event contracts to investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Bernhard Niesner, the co-founder and CEO of Busuu, which was founded in 2008, sees Duolingo as an entry-level tool that can help users migrate to its human-interactive service. “If Busuu and Babbel , two subscription-based competitors in the market, both focus on users talking in real time to native speakers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

link] mikemyatt Thanks Dan…I thought we were on the same page, but was testing for clarification to be sure…As usual, I find your thinking to be spot-on. That acceptance, by it's very nature, has merit regardless of the thoughts of the 'enlightened' crowd. Oops, I fear spot-on is a buzzword.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.) In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. admin Hi Ahmad: Thanks for the kind words.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In the end, I think the test is not as much where they were educated or what was disseminated in the classroom, but rather what is lived out in the hearts and minds of our leaders that ultimately matters. That said, just as is the case with secular universities there is also room for improvement.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Because Google also launched its search engine’s beta version in 2008, and in early 2008 Microsoft announced its Microsoft Azure for the testing phase, deployment, and even for the managing applications. And the number of these companies is getting higher as time goes on.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 4, 2016

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Wanna run it for your own repo? Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. half-life (years). first commit. kubernetes. tensorflow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2008, he ended up in a clinic, spending $35,000 on every kind of blood, stool, saliva or urine test there was to figure out why he continued to get sick. “I am a health and wellness-obsessed person, and despite knowing what I thought was a lot about nutrition and wellness, I kept getting sick,” Ashenden told TechCrunch.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test. Look at what your competitors are doing. What strategies are successful?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

They typically represent clients, partners, vendors, supporters, those that frequently provide comments on the N2growth Blog or those that tend to be otherwise respected by N2growth.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Michael’s track record of leadership has stood the test of time. As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Thanks, Michael LeadershipNow [link] mikemyatt I want so badly to disagree with you just so that we can test our theory, but alas I find myself in alignment with all points.:) We can only know how to connect by listening. Good material as always Mike! Well stated as always Michael. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

An unprepared CEO is a CEO who will not endure the test of time. If you’re going to get beat-up by your board, it’s better to have it happen in private rather than on center stage where the beating can not only be more severe, but where the results may also be recorded in the minutes.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

link] air tightness test Thats a good article… would use it and link back. link] mikemyatt Hi Allan: Thanks for the comments as well as the mention on your blog. I appreciate the value added to the discussion with the detail outlined above. Great thoughts Allan and thanks for stopping by. I always enjoy reading your blolgs.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. We’re going to get very personal today – How’s your family life? If the next sentence seems a little preachy, it’s meant to be.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There are exceptions to this; you might be referred to a lab for testing, or to another primary care provider if a condition can’t be managed online. A 2021 study published in “ The Annals of Internal Medicine” analyzed 142 million primary care visits among people who had insurance between 2008 and 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Hopefully no one was injured : SpaceX’s Starship test last evening ended in an explosion. Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. Darrell has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

And perhaps even surprising given that bitcoin was first discussed back in 2008. Sexual health is a growth industry : That’s our lesson from our writeup of TBD Health, which provides “ a fresh new approach with at-home [STI] testing made available for vagina-havers.” I wonder what Matt Damon thinks.

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Erik Bernhardsson

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When I run tests, I want to parallelize all of them. Why do I need to SSH into a CI runner to debug some test failure that I can't repro locally? It might seem tangential but hear me out: Music consumption in 2008 was going in two directions. Or define a grid with a 1000 combinations of parameters, or whatever. I could go on!

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Coding Horror

APRIL 19, 2020

I have definitely burn-in tested this machine , as I do all systems I build, and it passed with flying colors. But to be honest, if you expect to be under full CPU and GPU loads for extended periods of time you might need to switch to water cooling due to the space constraints.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Since the term’s inception in 2008, Full Stack Development has been one of the most talked-about and ever-growing roles in the software industry. To setup a full-stack assessment with this method follow these steps: Hover on “Create new test” in the top right and select “Custom”. Read more on How to hire a full-stack developer.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 25, 2021

The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was that the data center locked Netflix into an architecture of single points of failure, like large databases and vertically scaled components.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

However, additional reporting from security researcher Kevin Beaumont confirmed this flaw also affects Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The reason 2008 is not listed in the advisory is because it reached its end-of-support cycle in July 2014. MS don’t test again unsupported software. Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) February 18, 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The litmus test for blogging is, and always will be, does your blog add value, does it make a difference, and do people benefit from the opinions espoused? The noise in this space is simply deafening…As Miller so aptly stated in his post, “The good stuff lasts, the chaff separates from the wheat, the cream rises to the top, all that.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

All myths have meta- messages that direct us toward the tests and trials leading to the Holy Grail of transformation. When he visits the Grail King he sees that the man had been seriously wounded in the thigh, in the area of the testes, that his masculine energy had been compromised.

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