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Cal Newport's new book, Slow Productivity, champions the philosophy of trimming our to-do lists: doing less to achieve more, emphasizing quality over quantity, and challenging the unsustainable pace of modern work expectations. Read our full interview with Newport on the Dropbox blog!

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If you're connected with me, you know I scream about how necessary integrations are. Check out this piece where I explain more for insideBIGDATA!

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Join the Sui Overflow hackathon and compete for a share of $5000 in Sui by integrating BlockEden.xyz's RPC and Indexer services. Learn how to participate, the prize distribution, and judging criteria in our latest blog post. Discover the benefits of using BlockEden.xyz and start building your innovative project today!

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AI can be an incredibly powerful technology for creating valuable products. However the golden rule – “Do not delegate thinking” –becomes most critical than ever. AI can seriously hallucinate, lack the right context, and become a source of quality and originality regression. Great article by Itamar Gilad

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How has the new wave of AI impacted QA? Come find out in the latest clip of "Baked, Baking, or Dough?"

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It’s exciting to witness how the hyperscalers are enabling a hyper-collaborative marketplace ecosystem that allows the multiplication of revenue opportunities. I see this happening in two ways 1️⃣ ISVs are being encouraged by hyperscalers to build with interoperability in mind 🔧 All three #hyperscalers have, over the course of the last few years, incrementally deepened their partnerships with on-page "competitors" like Salesforce and Snowflake to break data silos and leverage #GenAI on more comprehensive data sets. AWS, GCP and Azure are not just strengthening their own associations, but they are also actively encouraging collaboration between these ISVs to drive interoperability, aimed at the creation of joint solutions that significantly expand the universe of customers who can benefit. Snowflake’s most recent Polaris Catalog launch also reaffirms its commitment to interoperability with a wider library of industry players (beyond the three clouds) including hyperscaler partners like Salesforce and Confluent. That brings me to point 2…. 2️⃣ Hyperscalers are actively inviting the participation of channel partners to piece complementary solutions together 🤝 As ISVs focus on creating compatible offerings with each other, and with hyperscaler services, buyers have the opportunity to find end-to-end solutions for specific use cases right from the marketplace catalog. To do so, they’re relying on partners to identify, connect and manage these increasingly complex technologies. This presents a tremendous opportunity for channel partners to add value to these marketplace-led deals by helping piece solutions together into a comprehensive whole. Hyperscalers are also cognizant that the “channel is the glue between them and the lower enterprise, midmarket and SMB,” as I’ve hear my friend and founder of Ultimate Partner Vince Menzione put it, and are actively developing strategies to incorporate channels into marketplace deal workflows. There’s a clear signal to shift the perception of marketplaces from being potential threats to traditional partnership associations, to what they really are – growth opportunities. Channel partners who recognize this sooner rather than later, have biggest opportunity to capture net new business.

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What’s Next: RunWhen's Kyle Forster talks open source and microservices SDxCentral CEO Matt Palmer speaks with RunWhen's Kyle Forster about a better way for companies to support gigantic code bases.

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Founder led companies are over-represented in the Glassdoor "Best Led Companies". Databricks (#2) NVIDIA (#4) Samsara (#8). Why? * Founders optimize for the long term - They drive culture, innovation and long term execution over quarterly targets. * Founders deeply understand their product and go to market in a way that hired execs cannot - after all they are the ones who found Product market fit in the first place. * Founders are "company first" they optimize for their company success over their paycheck. * And More. https://lnkd.in/dmrV_cYp

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It's uncommon to see innovation in a product that has been chugging along at the same level for decades. But Mark Adams, Keeri Tramm, Holden Page, and Bo Frize are building something special with our RealTrends Verified business. For those that don't know about RealTrends Verified, it's the one real estate rankings program that uses double-verified data (from the agent and their brokerage). Steve Murray and Tracey Velt had been operating the rankings for decades before we acquired the business. Ever since we acquired the business, we've noticed that our ranking pages have pretty impressive SEO juice. Try searching for "best real estate agents" or "best real estate agents in Texas", and you'll see a RealTrends page pretty high your results. This year, we're going to start leveraging this SEO juice with an expansion of RealTrends Verified into city pages. Now people will be able to search for "best real estate agents in Dallas", and find top agents in their city. We'll drill down even further into neighborhoods and zip codes in the coming years. If you're a brokerage or team leader, or a top agent in your city, please check out our new city pages! https://lnkd.in/eTGVHsaN

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What OpenAI's GPT-4o release means for the future of SaaS -- I'll break down the threat in my new article for Inc. Magazine https://lnkd.in/eUvZ4Ywq #innovation #technology #AI #software #saas

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In our latest episode of Cloud Four Fourcast, I sat down with Tammy Everts to talk about Google’s recent change from FID to INP and what it means for website owners. Tammy breaks down the jargon and provides recommendations for what companies should do to address the change, improve performance, and tie performance to the metrics that matter for their business. Check it out and pass it along to anyone struggling to understand what INP means for them. https://lnkd.in/gjm86gU8 #webperf #seo #webperformance #inp #corewebvitals

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GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani, interviewed by Liz Claman on The Claman Countdown, discussed how small businesses can use AI to help owners "spend less time building and more time growing biz" plus the latest Venture Forward U.S. survey results. https://lnkd.in/gik-BPnD #AI #GenAI #tech #smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #VentureForward #FoxBusiness

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Summer's knocking on the door, bringing along surge pricing.  Lina Tonk, CMO at Recurly, is shining a light on how businesses are jumping on this trend, and theme parks are right there with them. She highlights the value of annual passes, memberships, and subscriptions, as this could be a smart move for both you and the businesses, offering a win-win solution amidst the surge pricing season. #KeepAGoodThingGrowing®️ #RecurlyInTheNews

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The implosion of banking-as-a-service pioneer Synapse Financial Technologies is shining a harsh and unflattering light on a key link that has enabled the growth of the digital banking industry in recent years. #synapse #tabapay #forbes #fintech #fintechnews

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BIG product update here at Forwrd.ai! 🔥 Improved business logic editor 🔥 Enhanced usability for data modeling. [link in the comments] Our north star product metric is TIME TO VALUE ⏳ Achieving faster time to value often requires re-writing core product modules. These engineering tasks are complex and can be time-consuming. It’s natural to delay these crucial updates, pushing them to “later” until they become unmanageable. My recommendation: Incorporate these vital tasks into your backlog on a monthly basis. Trust me, the payoff is worth it. Regularly addressing core updates not only enhances performance but also ensures a seamless user experience. #Startup #ProductManagement 

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the Amazon Web Services (AWS) DC summit will be here next week, and in a prep meeting it was mentioned that one measure of success would be getting x% badge scans of the total attendees. I get it, its the metric that converts into a "lead" for our marketing team and translates into how they get paid. It seems to be one of the primary measures of success that the industry uses. But to me, having worked the booth and knowing how many folks are just cruising through collecting swag - it feels so empty. What metrics are other sales / marketing organizations using to gauge success at conferences? Is badge scanning the state of the art, or has someone cracked the code on a better conference KPI? #marketing #sales #conference #amazon #aws

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