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Zigurd Mednieks

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Zigurd Mednieks is a consultant to leading OEMs, enterprises, and entrepreneurial ventures creating mobile and IoT systems and apps.

Previously he was Chief Architect at D2 Technologies, a voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology provider. There he lead engineering and product definition work for products that blend communication and social media in purpose-built embedded systems.

He is lead author of the top-selling O'Reilly title Programming Android. Zigurd is also the lead author of Enterprise Android, published by Wiley WROX in 2013. This the first Android programming book to focus on cloud API-based applications.

Zigurd is Series Editor of the Addison Wesley Android Deep Dive series.

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	Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices by Zigurd Mednieks (Goodreads Author), Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enterprise Android: Programming Android Database Applications for the Enterprise by Zigurd Mednieks (Goodreads Author), G. Blake Meike (Goodreads Author), Laird Dornin 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	C Programming Techniques for the Macintosh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Android programming (original book version 2)(Chinese Edition) by Zigurd Mednieks (Goodreads Author), Laird Dornin liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming Android it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Agile Idea it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mobile Sensing Technology In The Workplace: Planning, Deploying, and Managing Mixed Devices 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Android database application programming - for the companies to develop data-driven mobile Android application development classic series 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Direct-to-consumer (DTC) Lemmings

Currently, there is a shake out in direct-to-consumer, also known as "DTC," startups. You may wonder what distinguishes the direct to consumer category from, simply, e-commerce, which is a venerable and already consolidated category. Why has a lot of supposedly smart money spawned a large number of doomed startups?

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“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

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