The success of a startup is a function of volume and value;volumebeing the number of customers it can serve, andvaluerepresented by what those customers are willing to pay for the startup's product or service. Volume and value in turn dictate the economic rent the company is able to capt...
What is a landing page?In simple terms—a marketer's best friend. This standalone page has one clear goal which is conversions. No matter how successful your various online marketing strategies are, your landing pages and website must convert at a decent rate to make all the efforts worthwhi...
In the business world, growth can be beneficial. However, when growth happens too quickly, and when you haven’t adequately prepared for it, growth can create issues. One of these issues is the effect of growth on the reliability of applications and services that weren’t designed to handle...
What is a verb?Let’s start with the basics: What is a verb? Verbs are words that describe actions, whether physical or mental. Verbs also describe a “state of being,” like the verbs be, become, or exist. Salah ran across the field, kicked the ball, and scored a goal. ...
Corporate strategy refers to the overall strategy of an organization that is made up of multiple business units, operating in multiple markets. It determines how the corporation as a whole supports and enhances the value of the business units within it; and it answers the question, "How do we...
Next up is creating the plan. We mentioned that this is the first phase in the three-phase design, but it needs a little more explaining than just that. Planning means that you’re going to break the project down into steps. You’re going to start with an end goal in mind and you’...
Before each sprint, in the sprint planning meeting (which we’ll discuss later in the article) the team chooses which items it will work on for the sprint from the product backlog. A sprint backlog may be flexible and can evolve during a sprint. However, the fundamental sprint goal – ...
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. IaaS is one of the three main categories of cloud computing services, alongside software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). In the IaaS model, ...
What Is a Patent? A patent is the granting of a property right by a sovereign authority to an inventor. This grant provides the inventor exclusive rights to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention. They are...
Limitations of Simple Moving Average It is unclear whether or not more emphasis should be placed on the most recent days in the time period or on more distant data. Many traders believe that new data will better reflect the current trend the security is moving with. At the same time, other...