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Brands Still Matter: Brandless Boom to Bust

The future of branding was no brand at all, and Brandless represented the best the movement had to offer. Until it didn’t. What happened? We share takeaways that no designer or business should ignore.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.

Well-structured Logic: A Golang OOP Tutorial

Can Golang be object-oriented? Go is post-OOP but can still leverage concepts like binding functions to types (aka classes), constructors, subtyping, polymorphism, dependency injection, and testing with mocks.

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Leonhard Holz

Leonhard Holz

Leonhard’s been a professional developer for 15 years. A Go expert, he loves the language for its simplicity, performance, and productivity.

The Commercial Real Estate Market in 2020

Where are we now in the commercial real estate cycle? We analyze current market dynamics, risks, yield expectations, and trends to determine potential well-positioned commercial real estate investments in 2020.

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Martin Schwarzburg

Martin Schwarzburg

With 25 years in finance, Martin has raised ~$500 million in capital and managed real asset portfolios from $50 million to $10+ billion.

Beyond “Faster, Better, Cheaper”: Vertical Integration Strategy for Startups

Startups need to think about vertical integration and identify the areas to focus on in-house versus partnering or outsourcing.

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Harish Natarahjan

Harish Natarahjan

With two decades of technology expertise, Harish specializes in product-market fit, new business models, product strategy, and ROI-driven roadmaps.

Pixels of Influence: Breaking Down Persuasive Design Principles

There’s a lot for people to consider when making decisions. Used properly, persuasive design principles are a powerful tool for building meaningful products that help people make better decisions.

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Michael Craig

Michael Craig

Michael is an experienced product designer who’s partnered with tech firms, startups, and education companies to deliver better products.

Fitter, Happier, More Productive – An Artificial Intelligence Case Study

There’s a wealth of practical applications for powerful technology like AI, like creating health and wellbeing resources for a new generation of college students. Here, we offer an inside glimpse into how the University of Southern California accomplished just that with the help of on-demand talent.

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The Price Is Right: A Pricing Strategy Overview for Consumer Companies

Pricing your products appropriately is one of the keys to the success of your company. So why do entrepreneurs often treat it as an afterthought? What are some of the available pricing strategies and how should they be applied by startup entrepreneurs?

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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.

Unlocking the Power of a Multigenerational Workforce, Part 1: Does Age Matter?

From the Greatest Generation to Gen Z, our modern workforce spans decades of time, culture, and experience. This series explores the challenges and potential of this new world of work. This installment looks at why skills matter more than age and how employers are looking beyond birthdates and geography to find talent.

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Toptal Research

Toptal Research

Toptal is an exclusive network of the world’s top freelance developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers.

Flexible A/B Testing with AWS Lambda@Edge

One of the new possibilities offered by Lambda@Edge is the ability to implement server-side A/B testing using Lambdas on CloudFront’s edge servers.

In this article, Toptal Full-stack Developer Georgios Boutsioukis guides you through the process and outlines the pros and cons of A/B testing with Lambda@Edge.

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Georgios Boutsioukis

Georgios Boutsioukis

Georgios is a full-stack developer with more than eight years of experience. He worked at CERN and as a member of the mobile API team at Booking.com.

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