The Raika Show

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Cynthia Del'Aria, CEO and Co-Founder. Cynthia started her programming journey very early, as well as her foray into business. Find out more about Cynthia at: https://www.raikatech.com/cynthia

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show. Whether you are brand new to the tech startup world, or you've been doing this for a while, if you aren't a technical person, you MUST have one. Find out why on today's episode.

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show. At the beginning of November, Crunchbase released their findings on a postmortem of 101 startups that failed in 2018. The number 1 reason (at a staggering 42%) might surprise you... Because it's completely preventable!

Raika Technologies is proud to present this week's episode of The Raika Show. We thought it would be fun to look up random headlines in the tech industry and see where the conversations led. As it turns out, we went from tech to unicorns to cars to entertainment... Come along on our impromptu journey!

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show. Today we are discussing the state of healthcare, and positing whether the push for technological advancement in healthcare record-keeping has been beneficial or has wrecked provider-patient relationships.

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, where we talk about our own experience building our startup. We work with a lot of entrepreneurs, and a lot of them are brand new to starting and running a business. It's easy for them to forget that Raika's founders are entrepreneurs too! In this episode, we're talking about our journey (so far) in building a business that builds businesses... The ups, the...

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we are talking about the poor state of documentation in software today. Whether you're building open-source, or working on proprietary projects, documentation is the key to understanding why something was done, how it works, and will help you keep your sanity when you come back six months later. So just do it!

As Chief Information Security Officer of a major multi-national corporation, Sam has a wealth of insight and knowledge on all things security. In this episode, we find out how Sam protects himself, the biggest security holes that exist today (some of these might shock you!), and how you can protect yourself and your business from the most common security breaches.

If you haven't seen the Netflix original movie "The Great Hack", you should watch it. It reveals the questionable practices of a company called Cabridge Analytica in effectively stealing and using unsuspecting Facebook users' data to manipulate their choices in political elections. In this episode, we talk about the movie and the potential ramifications of the lack of international law with regard to how our data can be (and is being) used against us.

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, in which we revisit the Bitcoin mania that ruled the world in late 2017 and early 2018, talk about cryptocurrency in general, and discuss blockchain and how it could solve privacy and data management problems on a personal level in the future.

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show. Women in technology is a hot topic today. Whether we are debating the relatively low numbers of women in technology roles (as compared to the larger workforce) or talking about why women don't gravitate to the technology fields as much as we think they should, there's a lot of debate and not a lot of understanding about why things are the way they are. In this...

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we are discussing when (and whether) you should think about scaling your software project. It's our personal public service announcement, just for all you developers out there.

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we are talking about buzz words in the software industry (and sometimes beyond) that are super annoying. Metadata. Blockchain. Bitcoin. Throughout software and technology there are words that "smart people" use when talking about various things, or when investing in companies. We think these words don't really mean what everyone thinks they mean (or is supposed to think they mean). More likely, someone needs his or...

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show. Everyone like money. Duckets. Moolah. Do-re-mi. So how do you turn your web or mobile app project and monetize to rake in the coinage? This week we are exploring the various monetization options, discussing pros, cons and our opinions. Cha-ching!

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we are looking at anti-patterns that prevail in web and mobile app design. Anti-patterns refer to mechanisms or design elements that are designed to increase engagement and user experience, but mostly end up detracting and creating frustrating interactions. We talk about the what and posit the why.

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Darrell Brogdon, CIO and Co-Founder. Darrell is a DevOps wizard (of the Harry Pottery variety) and has mastery with all things responsive mobile. Plus, if you can't figure out why something is the way it is, he almost ALWAYS can. Find out more about Darrell at: https://www.raikatech.com/darrell

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we are exploring the iterative software methodology known as Agile. Agile is designed to adapt to change extremely well. So why is it that teams never seem to be able to do just that, even when implementing Agile? Why is Agile never agile?

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Grant Parks, CTO and Co-Founder. Grant is an integral contributor, both via his extensive technical acumen and his wonderfully witty sense of humor! Find out more about Grant at: https://www.raikatech.com/grant

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we talk VanillaJS, JAMstack, and branding and coin a new phrase: NeapolitanJS.

This week on Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea.com talk about the benefits of advanced education and postulates how much a formal degree matters to be a successful Software Developer.