Read the original article at Great Interactive Map of NYC Startups
Business Insider posted this spectacular interactive google map of our amazing Startup Ecosystem here in New York City. Wow!
Check out the full list of NYC Startups in the original article.
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[Read more]Read the original article at How to hire a developer that doesn’t suck
Strip by Randall Munroe; xkcd.com
First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that is the divide between brilliant code writers and the risk averse operations team.
It is almost by default that developers are disruptive with their creative coding while the guys in operations, those who deploy the code, constantly cross their fingers in the hope that application changes won’t tilt the machine. And when you’re woken up at 4am to deal with an outage or your sluggish site is costing millions in losses, the blame game and finger-pointing starts.
If you manage a startup …
[Read more]Read the original article at Book Review – The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
What do you do after founding not one, but two companies and watching them fail miserably all by the time you were barely out of college?
Move to the Valley, make shrewd investments in other startups and become insanely rich like Sean Parker? A Bit lofty perhaps. How about try, try again and succeed. Then reinvent yourself as a guru dishing out startup wisdom through your blog and publishing a book that ends up the top of the New York Times Bestseller's list. That's essentially what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup did.
True entrepreneurs fail many times before they succeed and continuously find opportunities to reinvent …
[Read more]Recently at Surge 2011, the annual conference on scalability and performance, Google's CIO Ben Fried gave an illuminating keynote address. His main insight was that generalists are the people that will lead engineering teams in successfully scaling the web.
In a world where the badge of Specialist or Expert is prized, this was refreshing perspective from an industry bigwig. As tech professionals, or any professional for that matter, we don't welcome the label of generalist. The word suggests a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. But the generalist is no less an expert than the specialist. Generalists can get their hands greasy with the tools to fix bugs in the machine but they are especially good at mobilizing the …
[Read more]Read the original article at Scale Quickly Like Birchbox – Startup Scalability 101
One of the great things about the Internet is how it has made it easier to put great ideas into practice. Whether the ideas are about improving people’s lives or a new way to sell and old-fashioned product, there’s nothing like a good little startup tale of creative disruption to deliver us from something old and tired.
We work with a lot of startup firms and we love being part of the atmosphere of optimism and ingenuity, peppered with a bit of youthful zeal - something very indie-rock-and-roll about it. But whether they are just starting out or already picking up pace every startup faces the same challenges to scale a business. Recently, we were reminded of this when we watched …
[Read more]Often I think about challenges that organizations face with “Big Data”. While Big Data is a generic and over used term, what I am really referring to is an organizations ability to disseminate, understand and ultimately benefit from increasing volumes of data. It is almost without question that in the future customers will be won/lost, competitive advantage will be gained/forfeited and businesses will succeed/fail based on their ability to leverage their data assets.
It may be surprising what I think are the near term challenges. Largely I don’t think these are purely technical. There are enough wheels in motion now to almost guarantee that data accessibility will continue to improve at pace in-line with the increase in data volume. Sure, there will continue to be lots of interesting innovation with technology, but when organizations like …
[Read more]Reading yesterday that the NSA has submitted a proposal to Apache to incubate their Accumulo platform. This, according to the description, is a key/value store built over Hadoop which appears to provide similar function to HBase except it provides “cell level access labels” to allow fine grained access control. This is something you would expect as a requirement for many applications built at government agencies like the NSA. But this also is very important for organizations in health care and law enforcement etc where strict control is required to large volumes of privacy sensitive data.
An interesting part of this is how it highlights the acceptance of Hadoop. Hadoop is no longer just a new technology scratching at the …
[Read more]1. This page or area of the website is very slow, why?
There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud. Website performance starts with the browser, what caching it is doing, their bandwidth to your server, what the webserver is doing (caching or not and how), if the webserver has sufficient memory, and then what the application code is doing and lastly how it is interacting with the backend database.
With all this complexity, it's no wonder so many sites struggle. Typically these types of analysis start with some load testing, to stress test your setup, so you can watch for leaks. Then some tools are applied to the webserver tier, and the database tier to see where the bottleneck lies. It may be in the network …
[Read more]Amazon EC2 and cloud computing offer great promise for startups to ramp up their online presence quickly. Navigate those challenges with an strong partner. We bring 20 years experience to the table with each new client.
Conor O'Mahony over at IBM wrote a good post on a favorite topic of mine “The Future of the NoSQL, SQL, and RDBMS Markets”. If this is of interest to you then I suggest you read his original post. I replied in the comments but thought I would also repost my reply here.
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Hi Connor, I wish it was as simple as SQL & RDBMS is good for this and NoSQL is good for that. For me at least, the waters are much muddier than that.
The benefit of SQL & RDBMS is that its general purpose nature has meant it can be applied to a lot of problems, and because of its …
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