“Salary expectations are going above the roof. It has become difficult to hire new engineers. Existing engineers are working very hard. We must compensate them in some way. What is your recommendation for employee stock options? Will that create the required bonding for the long term?” “Nice thought, Yash. To use it effectively, one must understand the tool well. Let...
Startups are seeing a downturn in funding after a 13-year of bull run. Global funding for startups is set to fall by 19% in Q2 22 from the previous quarter. Y Combinator advised founders to plan for the worst and prepare for an economic downturn. The downturn will create challenges for the founders. The first goal in the downturn should be...
To make any app successful, it is always required to use the right technology. MERN stack provides you to work for front-end and back-end development. Choosing the right technology stack emerges to be the first roadblock other than investments. For businesses to ensure rapid web development with outstanding features, selecting the right tech stack delivers a captivating web experience to...
“It has been more than a few months now. The product is not taking the shape it should. I am waiting and getting nervous in the process.” “Cool down Yash. Your anxiety is quite visible. What are you doing about it?” “There is not much I can do. I am waiting for the team to deliver on their promise. I wish I could write some code myself and...
I was looking at the factors that make or break the startup. Did you know that the study shows that 60% of new ventures fail due to problems with the team? The team is the secret sauce that makes or breaks the startup. What makes a successful startup team? The common answer would be a motivated team that has top-class industry...
What is SAML 2.0? SAML is an IT standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data (SAML assertion based on XML) between heterogeneous security domains. There are usually two participating entities: Identity Provider: abbreviated IdP is a system entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals (users) and also provides authentication services to relying on applications within a federation or distributed...
We have traveled a long period of time with Mandira in our story. Just recently she got promoted to the executive position. She is leading a whole division now. She went to meet her mentor with this good news. Her mentor was very pleased to hear the news. “Congratulations Mandira! You are doing well” she said. “I am very excited and scared...
“How is it going Mandira?” Viraj asked. It has been some years since we last met Mandira, on the day she started learning about leadership and management. She manages multiple projects now. She is selected to undergo a leadership coaching program run by the company for the promising leadership candidates. “It’s going good Viraj. I am handling new challenges now and...
“Now that we have the development going on at full speed, I can breathe easy. I have started looking at the financials and plans for the next few months. I think we have enough money in hand for the next few months. What should be my next goal?” Yash looked relaxed today. “Start looking for angel investment.” It was a...
Classification is a very common use case in machine learning and is taught in many courses with somewhat balanced datasets, but many real-world use-cases have datasets with an imbalanced distribution of categories/classes to be classified. Standard approaches for balanced classification will give the illusion of good accuracy when accuracy itself becomes a misguiding metric for evaluation when data has...
