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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

TechCrunch

That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. Naps over apps : Sarah reports that app downloads were stagnant in the fourth quarter on both the App Store and Play Store — usually it isn’t, she points out.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. If you have NO network of promotion for your story? Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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5 Conditions of Successful Entrepreneurship - Gallup's Assessment

Smart Hustle Magazine

Motivated by the desire to understand the systemic reasons keeping businesses from scaling , Fred spent four years conducting an ethnographic study whose conclusions helped define a conceptual Framework – the Five Conditions – codifying the processes, structures and behaviors that go into building a business. entrepreneurs.

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Covid Alert NY

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Back in April, Google and Apple came together to create GAEN , a framework for secure and private proximity data sharing on mobile phones. Here’s how Covid NY works: Phones that have downloaded the app are assigned a random ID that can be exchanged with other phones via Bluetooth technology. Covid Alert NY was built by the NYS Dept.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Network Up. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Prices down. But what else? Collaboration. How Will it Evolve?

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations.