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The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.

I'm not saying the only reason I've categorically refused to invest in tech startups in the past was my instinctual aversion to the term "angel investor", but it surely did play a part! There's just something so ridiculously self-serving about this angelic charade that turned me off for the longest time. So too did the fact that every ...

Fifteen years later, developers are still trying to recreate the developer experience of Heroku. Yet, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why did Heroku fail? Was it just incompetent management? Was the idea too early? If developers demand Heroku, why haven't they (or a competitor) figured out how to make it viable? Here are four hypotheses about Heroku's successes and failures and why they may be wrong. Market Timing Hypothesis. > Heroku was acquired too early and s

A look at the trade-offs with local development in a world that is increasingly cloud-native.

An interview with “The Metaverse” author Matthew Ball about Metaverse timing, challenges, and Netflix’s content challenges

> When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. – Warren Buffett When you start a company, you get three innovation tokens. You can spend them however you want – adopting a new framework, implementing a unique interview process, adding non-standard terms to a term sheet, 0r designing your own database all count as an innovation token. The standard advice has been to choose boring technology [https://mcfunley.com/choose-bor

Learn about the product announcements unveiled at FutureStack 2022, our ultimate customer conference for software engineers and developers.

Cross-selling is one of the hardest problems that nobody knew existed. Except Flipkart. Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

My guest today is Kunal Shah. We discuss the core human motivations, how to spot opportunities hiding in plain sight, the many cultural differences between India and the West, what he learned growing up in the family business and how he applies it today, observing reality, why he dropped out of an MBA program, strategies for decision-making, and so much more.

Late in the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin published a report detailing how the British army had enlisted Native American tribes to commit atrocities against settlers. One tribe, he reported, had provided its British paymasters with 102 scalps, including 18 marked with flame — the scalps of children whose parents had been burned alive. The story […]

The benefits of adopting iPaaS, according to Typeform, and other considerations for scaling your tech partner program.

The terms, tools, and tactics to succeed in the world of partnerships. Understand the distinctions between channel and GTM, VARs and SIs, and more.

We’ve made it to $10,000 MRR with Plausible Analytics! Several people asked about our lessons learned, so I wanted to share some in this post.

How we scaled our two-person bootstrapped startup to support 4k+ subscribers, 1k+ trials per month and a growing open source community before looking for any help.

We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.

While working on Gigride, our marketing head asked me to integrate Google Analytics for our landing page. My first thought was:

How we grow our startup without any paid advertising, affiliate marketing and other sponsorships. All the steps we took and our best traffic sources are included.

This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to interview him. He knew about my project and wanted to share his memories of mechanical engineering. “Most of my skills transferred seamlessly. There’s one book, Sketching User Experiences, that’s aimed at software engineers.

This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge. -Anonymous1 Carl worked as a mechanical verification engineer: he tested oil rigs to see how much they vibrated. Humans work and live on oil rigs for long stretches of time, and if they vibrate too much it can be impossible to sleep.

After nearly two decades leading the file-sharing company, its co-founder and CEO talks about how his understanding of value in enterprise software has evolved.

Series A led by Sequoia Capital

Pessimism can spark an idea. Annoyance can drive ingenuity. Disappointment can redirect effort towards change. But creativity requires optimism. Creativity isn't about starting something. It's about making something. Making requires sustained effort, and sustained effort requires fuel. That fuel is optimism. When you run out, momentum ...

ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat He himself thinks he knows one thing, that he knows nothing There's a meme format that shows a bell curve – the X-axis depicting expertise or intelligence, and the Y-axis the number of people who share that opinion. It's used to show when beginners and experts share the same opinion (often the simplest one), but one that goes against common practice. Here are 16 bell-curve opinions on engineering. Disclaimer: I make no claim on what side of the bell curve I'm

Why Stripe has higher take rates and lower margins