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Distressed M&A: Assessing Opportunities for Bargain Purchases

Bankruptcy often presents an opportunity to purchase quality distressed assets at bargain prices. However, it also brings major challenges in terms of assessing the value of businesses with difficult realities, dwindling liquidity, limited resources, and uncertain prospects.

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Jeff Anapolsky

Jeff Anapolsky

Jeff is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School with experience in multiple industries.

Building a Data Warehouse Data Quality Process

Data quality is a crucial element of any successful data warehouse solution. As the complexity of data warehouses increases, so does the need for data quality processes.

In this article, Toptal Data Quality Developer Alexander Hauskrecht outlines how you can ensure a high degree of data quality and why this process is so important.

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Alexander Hauskrecht

Alexander Hauskrecht

Alexander has more than 20 years of experience in data warehousing in various roles and environments. He has extensive experience in insurance and banking.

Business Analytics Tips: Harness Your Data to Improve Decision-making

Many organizations that think they’re data-driven are still in first gear. How do you go from simply collecting a lot of data to setting up a business analytics function that actually tells you how to tweak your model to improve profitability?

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Natasha Ketabchi

Natasha Ketabchi

Natasha transitioned to venture capital after a career in banking built in prestigious firms such as JPMorgan and ESM.

Full-stack NLP With React: Ionic vs. Cordova vs. React Native

JavaScript frameworks based on React can help you build a fast, reliable mobile app, but it’s not always easy to determine which framework is best for your project. Choosing the wrong framework can result in an app with slow and redundant code.

JavaScript expert Sean Wang builds the same natural language processing mobile application using Cordova, Ionic, and React Native, then discusses the advantages and limitations of each.

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Shanglun Wang

Shanglun Wang

Sean is a passionate polyglot: a full-stack wizard, sysadmin, and data scientist. He’s also developed market intelligence software.

A Deep Dive Into the Future of Mobility

The paradigm of what a car is and how we use it is changing. Energy innovations, artificial intelligence advances, societal tastes, and environmental concerns are all affecting how we will get around in the future.

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Francesco Castellano

Francesco Castellano

Francesco has more than a decade of experience in finance, consulting, and management at prestigious companies such as Bain and Uber.

Product Backlog Prioritization With Multiple Key Stakeholders: A Case Study

Managing conflicting requests from product stakeholders can be time-consuming. Learn how to prioritize product backlog items with multiple stakeholders through a dedicated workshop.

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Chris Sykes

Chris Sykes

Chris is a passionate Agile practitioner and a Waterfall professional.

SQL Indexes Explained, Pt. 2

Sorting a table can make some queries faster—but the maintenance cost is untenable. Enter real database indexes and their most common implementation structure: the B-tree.

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Mirko Marović

Mirko Marović

Mirko designs and develops massive, extreme-workload databases. He also trains software developers on databases and SQL.

Webflow Advantages for No-code Web Design: A Case Study

A new generation of no-code web design tools promises to free designers from the tedium of traditional web development. We explore how to use Webflow to design and launch a startup company website.

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Mayank Sharma

Mayank Sharma

Mayank specializes in creating user-centered designs and translating complex systems into beautiful web and mobile experiences.

Why Investors Are Choosing Independent Sponsor Models vs. Traditional PE Funds

For investors fed up with private equity management fees on uncommitted capital, the independent sponsor model might be the answer. Pierre-Alexandre Heurtebize demystifies the growing model, analyzing the pros and cons from the perspective of investors as well as investee companies.

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Pierre-Alexandre Heurtebize

Pierre-Alexandre Heurtebize

Pierre has contributed to the completion of more than 30 M&A deals, specializing in the retail, SaaS, and technology spaces.

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