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Lately, I’ve been stewing over increased complexity being generated by companies around their organization approaches. While this activity varies by stage, in many cases the leadership team expands to a large (greater than six) number of people, there become two executive teams (the C-Team and the E-Team), the CEO gets sucked into endless distractions and working “in the company” rather than “on the company”, and I could go on with a 1,000 word rant on the challenges and complexity. Recently, I saw a structure rolled out by a CEO at a company I’m an investor in that made me pause because of its simplicity and brilliance. I didn’t like the labels the CEO used, but I loved the intellectual approach. It coincidentally had...

Putting deep learning into practice with new tools, frameworks, and future developments.

I can’t imagine anything less interesting in business than maximizing shareholder value. Yet this is what public companies are pressured — if not legally required — to do. A lot of non-public compa…

An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.

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For many people, the often outlandish proposals and predictions of futurists are just obviously impractical and are to be laughed off. Thi...

The End of Cloud Computing, is a prophetic presentation by  Peter Levine, of Andreesen Horowitz, and required viewing by anyone interested in making the distributed future happen. His key point: &#…

From in May, when I started my internship at Basecamp — the company known for creating Rails and very popular project management apps — I was nervous, intimidated, and self-doubting: What did I kno…

On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet…

The Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger initiative has added a new blockchain deployment tool to its growing pool of projects.

'The new digital business model needs to be written in software,' and those who understand software need to step up to lead the way.

Create business value and add new functionality through an automated build pipeline.

Lessons learned from 2016’s most important Linux security events.

Prognosticators say that in 2017, enterprises will continue to shift their security focus from endpoint devices to users and information across all applications and services. In the increasingly cloud-based, ephemeral microservices architectures, fortress-like perimeter-based strategies no longer work, Redpoint Ventures’ Lenny Pruss has argued previously here. Today’s security paradigm must be application-centric, developer-driven and built from the…

Exploits are constantly evolving. RASP sits within your app to protect against known and zero-day vulnerabilities — security by default.

In-fact, chances are, whoever you’re blunt to will appreciate it more.

The missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization.

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Cyrus Radfar Contributor Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide. More posts by this contributor How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along Will tech companies change the way we manage our health? Mankind has a complex relationship with the notion of Artificial Intelligence. Tinged with both fear and fascination; the timeline for […]

ModuleStudio is a model-driven development environment with which one can quickly, simply and efficiently describe and generate web applications.

Peace, love and Docker or Kubernetes – you must choose

I always like to look for where conventional thinking might be wrong. I think you can find interesting investments that way. I was exchanging emails with a colleague yesterday about Twitter’s decision to get out of the developer tools business and I asked her if it was possible that the conventional wisdom about Twitter (it […]

If it’s just you say “I”, not “We”. There’s no need to put up a front. Before I started Basecamp back in 1999 (we were originally called 37signals), I had a software and Web design business called …

Sidekiq is a simple, efficient framework for background jobs in Ruby

Sidekiq has taken the background job processing world by storm. Sidekiq’s creator, Mike Perham, has a near-obsessive focus on performance…