Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on f…
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Tested TAM tips, no-code tech survey, writing crypto white papers
For most products, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you're planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance.
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> Well, it works on my machine. A class of tough-to-debug bugs come from something called development-production parity. You can test and validate everything locally, or in recreated test environments, but the application ultimately fails or misbehaves when deployed to the production environment. For a long time, I've thought that the way to ultimately solve this is to share a common runtime platform between production and development – namely, Kubernetes. I wrote about this in Kubernetes Maxi
Selling to developers is no longer a sure path to insane valuation multiples
Product-led growth is a big deal these days as startups are trying to find ways to grow without spending all their capital on advertising and sales staffing. But it's no panacea.
All revolutions start with a rebel, and in the world of writing, blogging and newsletters, Substack, the online newsletter platform, is Silicon Valley’s new favourite disobedient child. High on its recent explosion in the writing community, it now finds itself at an interesting crossroads that will dictate the path for its future growth. This is […]
Introducing the Substack app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get it now for iPhone and iPad: more 👇
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The first few years of the 2010s birthed a gold rush of development of messaging apps. WhatsApp had been around for a year-ish, Kik launched to immense success in 2010, and Facebook Messenger (then only within the Facebook app) had long been top dog. Within a couple of years, photography and photo sharing apps were […]
All revolutions start with a rebel, and in the world of writing, blogging and newsletters, Substack, the online newsletter platform, is Silicon Valley’s new favourite disobedient child. High on its recent explosion in the writing community, it now finds itself at an interesting crossroads that will dictate the path for its future growth. This is […]
The concept of a media diet has gotten a lot of attention, and it's surely an important one. If you fill your mind with drivel, it'll soak your thoughts in kind. But how you choose to fill your mind matters too. Even if the sources are ace. For many years, I consumed media in a continuous, never-ending stream from morning till night. I...
I am an individual investor doing research into the hypergrowth stocks that interest me, and am then sharing that research. As stated in my Welcome post, I was a software architect that designs and explains complex data systems for a living, as well as a technologist that studies where the
The reaction to the Ukraine invasion has been a demonstration of tech capabilities; those capabilities may be the key to compelling China to pressure Russia.