Category: Enterprise
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5 Leadership Lessons from Elon Musk: Don’t Wing It
“The world’s most remarkable living entrepreneur,” is what Chris Anderson, the founder of TED, calls him. Many compare him to Steve Jobs. Some say Elon Musk is in a league of his own. Here’s a quick recap of his career: Drops out of a Stanford graduate program after two days and starts a business in…
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These Are the Questions Top Tech Companies Ask Job Candidates
The job interview has become a modern crucible, a trial that yields significant growth and rewards when successfully confronted. For both the applicant and the employer, a job interview is an opportunity to learn and discover. The ideal outcome being a brand new employee who is perfectly suited for the job, the workplace, and the…
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WordPress at Scale: Using WordPress as an Enterprise Content Management System
WordPress may have started as a blogging platform, but over the last 15 years it has evolved into a powerful, robust CMS capable of handling even the largest enterprise websites. Powering 30% of the web, WordPress has become the default digital publishing tool for major media companies, including Facebook, CNN, USA Today, Time Inc, eBay, Sony,…
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What Companies Can Learn From Google’s Quest to Create the Perfect Team
What does it take to build the perfect team? Like many companies, Google executives believed that the best teams were made up of the best people. In the words of Julia Rozovsky, an analyst in Google’s People Operations division, “Take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila.…
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Get to know ARES – an Application Gateway for WordPress
We spent most of 2017 developing a new web application gateway to better serve the tens of billions of requests to Pagely hosted WordPress sites. There’s been a lot of talk on our blog about new features and releases for 2018 so here we’d like to share a few details about how it works, the…
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6 Leadership Lessons from Phil Knight, Co-Founder of Nike
Two companies IPO’ed on the same day in December of 1980. They would go on to change industries and redefine advertising. And buying stocks that day in either of these corporations would have made you enormously wealthy. Their names? Apple and Nike. While they started off on the same day, three decades later Apple dwarfs…
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40 Must-Read Blogs for Leadership & Entrepreneurs
Countless entrepreneurs have written about their personal experiences — their wildly successful ventures and stunning failures. Some are so transparent that they publish their financials for others to dissect and comment upon. These 40 blogs for C-suite, executives and entrepreneurs are must-reads, so browse through and add your favorites to your morning repertoire. This collection…
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The Enterprise IoT Platform Construction Kit: Part 1
The mission of this 3 part series of articles, released in monthly installments, is to discuss the options for constructing an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform. By now you have most likely heard of the Internet of Things (IoT) and your enterprise may even be planning an IoT platform. There are many different enterprise…
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5 Key Takeaways from Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, is soon to become the world’s richest person. And, if we are to believe him, he’s just getting started. He’s not the only one who thinks so. RBC Capital’s managing director, Mark Mahaney, estimates Amazon is on track to become the world’s first trillion dollar company. And if…
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Tech Trends Shaping Enterprise: AR & VR
Companies and entrepreneurs who anticipate major technological changes are the ones who reap the rewards of being forward thinkers. Apple and Microsoft were the first to see the opportunities the PC would bring and hence dominated the field. Years later, Google and Apple bet on the smartphone’s potential and are still unbeatable in that sector.…