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Personalised student assessment firm Xamcheck gets $1.8M funding from Aspada | VCCircle Money to invested in backend technology and expanding operations.

Software Is Reorganizing the World | WIRED When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds rather implausible. Perhaps the internet will spur a wave of internal migrations as online communit…

What makes a good API?

The art of creating simple but flexible APIs - Jos de Jong A while ago I read the blog post Ranging Near and Far by Scott Sauyet. On Echo JS, Scott titled a link to this blog “Choosing simple APIs over …

“You can’t preserve the culture, if you try to preserve it then you’re locking it into place, it starts to stagnate,” Libin said Costolo told him. Costolo explained that the CEO’s job is not to preserve the culture, it’s to evolve it intentionally in a certain direction.

What Phil Libin learned from Dick Costolo, Steve Ballmer, and Jerry Yang It's lonely at the top and even CEOs need advice sometimes. At PandoMonthly Sarah Lacy asked Evernote's Phil Libin what he has learned from three of the more high profile CEOs he's mingled with -- ...

The next layer of attractive profits will accrue to companies that build data-backed applications in which the data gets better the more people use the system. This is what I’ve called Web 2.0.

Network Effects in Data - O'Reilly Radar Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term network effects somewhat differently, and not in the simp…

Managing Platforms Is a Human Art With platforms, you are not managing software; you are managing people.

A company becomes the people it hires.

Vinod Khosla: "A Company Becomes The People It Hires" Last week at DEMO Mobile, Vinod Khosla came onstage to share his unique perspective on building startups, mobile, and more. We just put up the video of the entire discussion, which you can watch ab...

How to pinpoint the best hire for each stage in the business life cycle A startup in the development stage needs to hire a very different type of person than does a growth company aiming for maturity. Here's how to match your next hire to your company's unique stage in the business life cycle.

Don’t confuse the implementation challenges of your solution with the user’s problem to be solved. Your solution is just one of many. - JS

Apple’s Jonathan Ive in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter The full discussion from Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit is now available for streaming. Watch Vanity Fair on The Scene: http://thescene.com Subscribe...

How bundling benefits sellers and buyers | chris dixon's blog But this reasoning misses the economic logic behind bundling: under assumptions that apply to most information-based businesses, bundling benefits buyers and sellers.

Companies are increasingly treating the physical and virtual worlds as complements rather than alternatives.

Pointers to the future PROGNOSTICATORS have a bad record when it comes to new technologies. Safety razors were supposed to produce a clean-shaven future. Cars were expected to take off and...