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Agile for SMEs
Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) as well as larger, established, companies are augmenting their brick and mortar presence with an online presence. Concurrently, Agile Software Development...
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Innovation in the Enterprise Done Right
As a group of Silicon Valley CTOs, we often get approached by enterprises looking to innovate. The conversation begins with a discussion around various emerging technologies coming from Silicon Valley...
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Lean and Agile: Partners in Customer Delight
Lean Startup and Agile (whether the latter is Scrum, Extreme Programming, or Kanban) share common roots in Lean Manufacturing, the work Deming did with Toyota beginning in the 1950s to increase...
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Managing Technical Debt
Operating with debt is a normal component of doing business. Just as financial debt must be controlled and leveraged to take advantage of market opportunities, any software project maintains a level of...
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Pre-seed vs. Seed Fundraising
At SVSG, we regularly talk with early stage companies about a myriad of topics. One topic that comes up most often from first time founders is fundraising — how much should we raise for our seed...
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How to Choose Your Tech Stack
An MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also hakeerves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as...
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The 200 billion dollar chatbot disruption
(Article reposted from Matt Swanson’s May 2016 guest post on VentureBeat). In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. That astronomical number set off waves of speculation as to what value...
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The 200 billion dollar chatbot disruption (part two)
(Article reposted from Matt Swanson’s September 2016 guest post on VentureBeat). In the last post, we highlighted the disruption that chatbot technologies are poised to make in call centers. To...
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The Machine Learning Imperative
(Article reposted from Bernard Fraenkel’s July 2017 post on Forbes.com). There’s no longer a debate as to whether companies should invest in machine learning (ML); rather, the question is, “Do you...
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Interview with SVSG Financial Services Practice Manager Carter Smyth
The following post is an interview with SVSG CTO and Financial Services Practice Manager Carter Smyth. Carter is an executive with over 25 years experience building technology teams to solve...
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