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There is an art to engineering and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, the two worlds collided when they created the open-source graphics program, GIMP.

Cockroach Labs has many things going for it. The company’s approach to distributed database technology is novel, and it has the potential to gain significant market share internationally.

Power laws rule everything around us. This is a core principal of what we have largely come to learn in a world dominated by this narrative, which has also helped proliferate the concept of Asymmetric Upside. Within traditional tech/Web2, due to the compounding nature of moats (most notably network effects) and duopolistic markets, it is […]

Clayton Christensen claims that Uber is not disruptive, and he’s exactly right. In fact, disruption theory often doesn’t make sense when it comes to understanding how companies succeed …

Not all products are disruptive: some are obsoletive. They are more expensive but remove the need for entire categories of products.

The a16z crypto partner is the Midas List’s new no. 1 for 2022, and the venture industry’s most visible, and often controversial, face in the wild west of tokens and NFTs.

We like easy-to-read code because we like easy-to-maintain code. This is why we like Go.

We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.

How operational necessity (and tax consequences) dictate the shape of money movement into charities.

You probably need to do fewer things right now. Prioritization, the other definition There’s two loose definitions of prioritization. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like to do… and then you put a unique number...

A retrospective on usage-based pricing (Part 1)

The original version of the Web based on high-quality organic hypertext links is long gone. It has been largely replaced with captive silos of information targeted at keeping users within walled gardens to the maximum extent with links to external content being marginalized in order to keep the user engagement the highest. Social networks are […]

There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.

What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?

You’re lucky that I ain’t the president Cause I’ll push the f*#king button and get it over with F&$k all that waiting and procrastinating And all that goddamn negotiating — Bushwick Bill, Fuck a War Tom Hagen: Mike, why am …

Cheap money and power-law profits are killing venture funds and birthing venture firms.

From studying for the exam to registering with the SEC — my foray into investing in startups and venture capital by passing the Series 65 and becoming a licensed investment adviser representative.

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…

Amazon launches its streaming gaming service with a Prime tie-in; then Apple stops selling hardware in Russia, but didn’t take down the App Store. Both make sense.

Facebook and Google bans probably don’t make much of a difference in the short-term, but will be a challenge in the long-term. Then, the structure of crypto drives a different response.

More on Shopify’s Evolution, including the waning opportunities for niche businesses. Then Spotify builds out their tiered advertising strategy.

One more point on Peloton’s poor operations, then more news from the chip industry: Intel makes an acquisition and ARM is on its own.

Learn how to make your API stand out from the rest with these tried and tested tips.

The client is an Indian self-drive car rental company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Zoomcar holds the distinction of being India's first personal mobility platform, with the introduction of car-sharing services in 2013. With a strong focus on the mobile experience, Zoomcar allows users to rent cars by the hour, day, week, or month. In 2018, Zoomcar introduced India's first peer2peer based marketplace for cars with the launch of its shared subscription mobility model. Continue Reading...

We're exploring an approach to simplifying app development: storing all application and UI state in a client-side reactive relational database that provides a structured dataflow model.

It's the Read Max Career Corner

A look at what Gartner thinks is coming in cloud, network, and app security over the next few years.

And a quick and dirty look at SPLK, NTNX, and GWRE

I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade. This view is focused on enterprise software. I am more bullish on SMB SaaS, primarily on vertical-specific players which I will discuss below. Vertical Aggregation