Developed during World War II, CARVER is a tool for assessing and ranking threats and opportunities. It can be both offensive and defensive, meaning it can be used for identifying your competitors’ weaknesses and for internal auditing. CARVER can help risk management…
So perhaps you’re burned out in the consumer software game, or are just considering a pivot into the enterprise (“B2B”) market. You’ve heard that there’s a lot of opportunity in “selling to enterpr…
Interactive deep learning book with multi-framework code, math, and discussions. Adopted at 500 universities from 70 countries including Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Cambridge. - d2l-ai/d2l-en
In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv7 is, how the model works, and the novel model architecture changes in YOLOv7.
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Russ Laraway wades through all of the competing opinions, complex frameworks and advice out there on how to be a better manager, creating a simple, data-backed leadership toolkit.
Hits are more valuable than ever, mostly because they're more rare than ever. The Zipf Distribution, also described in Chris Anderson's Long Tail, helps us understand just how valuable hi…
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Game-based marketing: a gamification marketing guide to create brand awareness and drive user engagement for your business.
Capturing non-linear advertising saturation and diminishing returns without explicitly transforming media variables
Have you ever gotten into a heated argument about politics? Maybe you’ve said something you're not proud of during game night with friends, or booed the opposing team at a sporting event. Psychologist Mina Cikara studies what happens in these moments — when our mindset shifts…
Many new products fail because their creators use an ineffective market segmentation mechanism, according to HBS professor Clayton Christensen. It's time for companies to look at products the way customers do: as a way to get a job done.
In this article, we discuss the importance of linear algebra in data science and machine learning.
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This past week our Community / Growth Manager, Brad Patterson, spoke at the European Cloud Expo in London on the topic Try Before You Buy – Successes and Misgivings in the European Cloud Ecosystem. Also speaking were Jason Turner, director of Business development at Cedexis…
I can be pedantic about user acquisition. The truth is that consumer web and mobile applications are under increasing pressure to demonstrate explosive exponential traction. Building a great prod…
One of the biggest barriers to traditional machine learning is that most supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms need huge amounts of data to be useful in real world use cases. Even…
I’ve grown my companies by focusing on great customer service. We didn’t always have the biggest names in business working at the firm, and we sure couldn’t
Find works on searching files based on a number of criteria. The exec command gives you the ability to work on those results. Here are some examples of find exec command combination.
Analyzing the SERPs for these micro intents will help you create the right content that a searcher will want to find.
This is my summary and notes from The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Please use the link if you decide to buy the book after…
Today's consumers expect free shipping for most items. But it's not always obvious for merchants to know when and how to offer it. Here's our all-new update for analyzing shipping costs and free delivery.
Increased transistor density and utilization are creating memory performance issues.
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Marc Andreessen famously said that for startups, “the only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.” Product/market fit means providing enough value to enough people that the startup can…
Projects are a popular way of organizing software efforts, but long-running product teams are often superior
The risk to organic search performance from altering a website usually comes from changes to content, linking structures, or underlying technology. With careful planning and execution, however, you can mitigate the risk from those changes and increase the likelihood of better…
Ever wonder how to apply Growth Hacking thinking to reducing churn and increasing retention? Here are 22 ways to make that happen.
Keyword research can help improve your organic search performance. Search engines attempt to sync the words and intent of consumers' queries with web pages. Ecommerce merchants should therefore align their pages using the right keywords to convey the proper intent.
The Amazon for drug dealing is built around user reviews.
Have you ever stopped to think about just how many decisions you make each and every day? Some choices are very simple, such as choosing to get up in the
Bland customer testimonials always go bust. Here's how to get great quotes from your customers.
Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture.
Opening doors for other people is a critical concept to understand in life. Read this article to learn more about how to show people that you care.
Here’s some good news: You can train your brain to think faster and work smarter.
This one of a series of essays on speaking. Find more here. You’ve written a great talk, you’ve made your deck (or not!) and you’ve practiced. But have you considered how you’ll move while speaking…
Here’s what the best leaders do.
Some managers keep diaries of their on-the-job mistakes, partly to avoid repeating errors, and partly to make employees comfortable with failure. At least one added cartoons.
Amidst the flurry of recent disclosures about people and companies in our little northern hemisphere who are doing things they say they’re…
01 Intro One of the best books I have read in the last few years is The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler. The book makes two main arguments: a) Most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking b) Our brains…
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