Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

Learn more about the key differences between scale-ups and start-ups Why You Need a Framework for Scaling a Business Many businesses fail not because of poor products or insufficient market demand, but due to ineffective management of rapid growth. Scaling challenges can overwhelm even promising startups without a systematic approach.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

A stronghold of technical concepts is necessary to write about any specific technology. At Merrative, it took us multiple paid trials, hours of recruitment work, and a loss of USD 1000+ with unsatisfactory work to find our first 15 technical writers. Who is a technical writer?

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When young (or youngish) people think of age-tech, they may picture mostly clinical solutions—telemedicine platforms, for instance. In its wellness category, AARP Innovation presented three startups focused on overall health and well-being. Growing older, however, doesn’t just have a physical component.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

CIO’s cybersecurity budget allocations are too spread out across a myriad of single solutions. Cyber budgets get stretched too thinly across single solutions when they should match the organization’s IT and software spending priorities. the majority of its cybersecurity budget should go to protecting these investments.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

This stark reality underscores a critical challenge facing CIOs: building and maintaining a technology portfolio that’s not just cutting-edge but also delivers tangible value. Enter the Technology Investment Matrix — a holistic approach that spans four key phases: exploration, exploitation, evolution, and elimination.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black. You can expect that we will go deep into understanding your technical approach and product differentiation. Just saying your product is AI-driven will not cut it.

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TechEmpower CTO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Were they finished on time and on budget? What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s then up to the CIO to sound less like a technical guru and more like the finance, marketing, and payroll people, making it clear that every activity takes place on the IT infrastructure. To help earn this, at the end of each year, Ardolino prepares his own budget forecast document, which he then reviews with the CFO and CEO.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. This transition has propelled AI and machine learning to the forefront, with 51% of CIOs identifying these technologies as among their most urgent priorities, alongside cybersecurity, highlighting their crucial role in driving organizational success.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. Here’s how.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. Recruiting, retainment, and yes, adoption of lead-edge technology, are back on the radar of IT leaders. How do we get the talent we need?

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. He attributes the cautious attitude of tech leaders to elevated inflationary pressures and higher interest rates.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. Those, though, aren’t the only ways legacy tech can hurt innovation. Here, CIOs and IT innovation leaders share five common roadblocks to IT innovation.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

For example, consider a text summarization AI assistant intended for academic research and literature review. Through the use of different LLMs tailored to each tier, SaaS applications can offer capabilities that align with the varying needs and budgets of their diverse customer base. However, this method presents trade-offs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. “With our technology, we are able to increase the performance on scaleable and non-scaleable tasks by accelerating the existing hardware and saving … on energy use.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The startup said it gives teams a way to streamline the commission process and avoid inaccurate budgets, incorrect payouts, and “unhappy sales reps due to poor sales commission planning, reporting and administration.”. 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. “The million salespeople in the U.S.,

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Digital technology is infiltrating our business in ways we never thought of ourselves,’’ he says. So it is imperative the C-suite have digital literacy” not only to protect and enhance the customer value proposition but to understand new technologies and how they can be applied in their business. The payoff can be significant.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. JG: So our credit product is quite different regarding how we present it to the customer. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Today the company already provides users with a single account and payment card that can be used both for personal and business expenses, and an “assistant” that analyses expenses and budget for paying future taxes based on your incomings. Down the line it will also be expanding into invoicing, payment management and credit (e.g.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. D ue diligence pays off.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Revisit, review, re-forecast.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launching a B2B product within a B2C company presents distinct challenges as you attempt to strike a balance between successfully establishing a new product and maintaining your original business. When reviewing your engagement data, do you notice a spike during work hours? Your tech stack is also going to fundamentally change.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

If you had to name 2023s single-most impactful and disruptive technology, youd need just two letters: AI. Even for technology insiders, the rapid pace of generative AIs development and adoption across all business sectors was simply astonishing. And theres no sign of things slowing down. Are your employees ready?

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CIO

MAY 19, 2025

Intelligenza artificiale e cybersicurezza sono le due massime priorit dei CIO per il 2025, come emerso dal Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, March 2024 [in inglese] , di IDC. Ha poi definito un budget e lo ha presentato alla dirigenza e si assicurato lapprovazione. E ridurre il debito tecnico?

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 28, 2025

At the same time, poor cloud cost management is destructive for businesses, as, besides obvious overspending, resource inefficiency, and budget overruns, it can cause other, hidden and long-term consequences. This alignment confirms that financial decisions are informed by both technical needs and budget constraints.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2022

But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. If you’re building a team for the first time, you should understand that data science is an iterative process that requires a lot of data, says Matt Mead, CTO at information technology services company SPR.

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Perficient

APRIL 28, 2025

Budgets, approved. ” And yet, in almost every great technology story and every technology failure Data Governance is the silent architect whether you called it that or didnt. It was present, building the foundation… or sometimes silently watching as the castle falls. Deadlines, drawn. Headlines, dreamed about.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.”

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Explosive technology innovations. Generational shifts in technological expectations. Keeping up–and hopefully, staying ahead–presents new challenges. Sometimes they simply don’t work, perhaps due to a change in contact lenses or a new tattoo. Cybersecurity budgets are typically caught between these two forces.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Technology slide. “Feedback loop”— product slide. “How it works” slide — tracking member outcomes. One little detail, though: 30% growth, 40% tech, 20% community, 20% ops. Customer (“member”) results slide. But most startups don’t include any of this, so very well done there.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

By linking up with startups, CIOs can greatly expand their opportunities to experiment with emerging technologies and augment their in-house innovation programs. The CIO can also maximize the audience by inviting the company’s technology and business leaders to attend events that align with their interests and business needs.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

To spend on technology and digital at a rate slower than that of revenue growth, enabling scale and simplifying your environment? How will the vision be enabled by disruptive technologies like Generative AI , IoT, and Cloud? Borrow language from investor-day presentations and earnings reports. What’s the vision for IT?

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 1, 2024

Online companies are increasingly choosing the technology and developers for their initiatives with greater caution as a result. In the field of technology, react technology is a fairly well-known term. You now know which technology to use for your upcoming project. while managing or hosting a complex project.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Many features have been developed for Windows and Office copilots without having been deployed due to the lack of compute. IDC’s Wave surveys have revealed that supply chain constraints were one of the top concerns, at least for Asia-Pacific IT leaders, affecting their tech strategies and budgets,” Thomas said.

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