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There is no shortage of stories about tech founders achieving face-melting wealth from startup success. Bless their hearts. On the other side are stories with unhappy endings of founders sacrificing everything for the sake of their startup. I hate those stories. This story lies smack-dab in the middle. There is zero money made and minimal money lost. This is a story of how I had an idea that I was excited about, pursued it for 6 months, and then decided to pull the plug and get a job.

Starring zero callbacks, conflict of interest and rehearsed pitches

Must-have insights into cloud pricing you can use to cut your cloud bill and get maximum value out of public cloud services.

If you don't see the world the way it is, you'll think it works in a way that it doesn't and make terrible mistakes.

Many startups today fundraise with the goal of getting the most money at the highest valuation possible. But at Retool, we decided to take the opposite strategy.

Mega collection of why venture capital firms invested in startups in their own words. Learn the thought process behing investing funds into companies.

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There are few things more exciting than being at a company during hypergrowth, but it’s easy to let hypergrowth get away from you, and to end up reacting instead of planning. It’s hard to steer when you’re rebuilding a plane mid-flight, but you can always nudge it in the right direction.

Allocating for follow-on dollars, also known as venture reserves, is an important tool in the arsenal of every fund manager.

How we can have more productive disagreements, and why it's gotten so hard.

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No images? Click here Today we publish the results of our Delight Scale study on Tesla. In many ways, Tesla is helping set the direction and lead the automotive industry the same way iPhone moved the industry from feature phones to smartphones.

Reconciliation, matching invoices against incoming payments, is necessary because of lack of structured data.

Sometimes smart people working hard make things worse. The following story is based my recollection of some real events:Scheduling Work ProblemsA s...

MongoDB delivered a banner quarterly report in early December, beating expectations on all fronts. The highlight was their continued revenue growth

Most software is feature-ful: built from an amalgamation of individual features, which are usually atomic ways to do something specific, arranged in a singular interface that has to work for every user of that piece of software. Each feature is usually built with a small number of end-to-end user experiences in mind (often in the form of "user stories"). Each feature has to live somewhere in the UI; sometimes they're put in unexpected or awkward places, and every so often the whole UI gets shuffled up in a redesign.

WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.

As time has gone by, one of the things I've enjoyed the most in running Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) is seeing how far I could make the dollars stretch. How big can it go whilst at the same time, running it on a shoestring? I keep

People are often baffled why enterprise software is slow, uses lots of memory, and is generally a pain to work with. Before starting mailbox.my, I did work at a large enterprise software company, so I hope to offer some insights with this post. Most of this actually applies to software in general.

I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved

“Every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” - Neil Armstrong I was talking to a friend recently abou...

Thousands of startups have started over the past decade, and there are plenty of startups claiming to abstract away your ops for you as a service, but nothing is there to help you Day 0. And, you are asked for X or Y before you can start using these services. There is an app for everything within startup operations, but while looking for help online and across startup communities, I couldn't find a simple list that just told me what I needed, when, and why.

I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of …

When starting a SaaS business you eventually arrive at the challenge of pricing and packaging. Many great articles have been written on the subject, we've read them all, and still we missed the mark. Here's our thoughts on version 2.0.

While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-publishing route.

The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer - Rogério Chaves