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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

I am looking for easy, scalable solutions with a great team. I also think that femtech is a hyped category but funding as well as renown exits are still missing. What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup?

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

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Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. Hence, JavaScript will remain one of the hottest tech skills in 2020 and it is unlikely that it will go off the grid in the near future.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO

Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says.

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Can serverless fix fintech’s scaling problem?

CIO

Add to this the escalating costs of maintaining legacy systems, which often act as bottlenecks for scalability. The latter option had emerged as a compelling solution, offering the promise of enhanced agility, reduced operational costs, and seamless scalability. Scalability. Scalability. Cost forecasting. The results?

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Scaling to the Masses - Fit Your Product for a Larger User Base

Speaker: Dustin Smith, Sr. Product Manager, Incubator

Romantic notions aside, the story neglects to mention the most essential variable to product success: scalability. Wednesday October 7th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 6PM GMT In a matter of years, a very small company becomes a global superpower. In this webinar, you will learn: Making the choice to scale.

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Expressable launches with millions for scalable speech therapy

TechCrunch

Loyst was diagnosed with a speech and voice condition in late 2020 and needed to find remote SLP therapy, which introduced her to the challenges of finding a high-quality specialized SLP. The majority of Expressable’s user base are children, but about 35% are adults, signaling how speech issues can continue past childhood.

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Austin-based Fetch Package secures $60M in equity & debt after tripling ARR in 2020

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million packages in 2020, and hit the 2.5 While the company would not disclose hard revenue figures, Patton says it tripled its year-over-year ARR (annual recurring revenue) in 2020 and GAAP revenue grew 6x year-over-year. Fetch delivered about 3.5 million mark for volume in June 2021.

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Serverless and Containers: How to Choose the Right Application Strategy

Speaker: Tolga Tarhan, Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica

We will hear about specific use cases where organizations leveraged serverless refactoring, containerization or a combination of both solutions, that resulted in improved performance, availability, and scalability. April 14th, 2020 11:00am PDT, 2:00PM EDT, 7:00PM GMT