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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Caryn Marooney, right, vice president of technology communications at Facebook, poses for a picture on the red carpet for the 6th annual 2018 Breakthrough Prizes at Moffett Federal Airfield, Hangar One in Mountain View, Calif.,

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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

CTOvision

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high.

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Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

TechCrunch

By September 2018, they formally launched the app beyond the campus of Babson College, which they were attending on scholarships. By August of 2020, the company launched an MVP (minimum viable product) and since then has been growing about 30% month over month after reaching profitability in its first four months.

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Equinix goes partner prospecting with AI

CIO

Multinational data infrastructure company Equinix has been capitalizing on machine learning (ML) since 2018, thanks to an initiative that uses ML probabilistic modeling to predict prospective customers’ likelihood of buying Equinix offerings — a program that has contributed millions of dollars in revenue since its inception.

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Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp 2018

Gorilla Logic

In July of 2018, I had the great opportunity to participate as a representative of Costa Rica at the Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp in Leon, Spain. We learned how to develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This is an activity made by The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A.

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Agile + Human-Centered Design: Better by Design

Mentormate

In the two decades since its introduction, the Agile methodology and its core idea of minimum viable product have risen to prominence in software development. However, these processes are optimized for predictability and speed, at the expense of delivering the right features, an optimal user experience, or a future-proof design.

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Apiumhub and AGORA Images – together we can do so much!

Apiumhub

Our team was focused not only on the development of the digital product but also on the technical strategy, implementation of the option “buy/sell images”, search (Elasticsearch) and Contests. 2018 seems to be a year of growth for both companies, with many ideas and initiatives.