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Arduino raises $22M Series B round
We are happy to announce that Arduino raised an additional $22 million round, taking our Series B funding to $54 million, thanks to an expansion co-led by
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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Every software project is a startup that will probably fail
It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
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Raise less, build more
The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses …
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Welcome to Datasette Cloud
Datasette Cloud is the new SaaS hosting platform for the Datasette open source project. It enables teams to create a private collaboration space, upload and share data securely with each other, and then selectively publish that data to the world.
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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)
In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life's work...
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MK-1
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
The Leteyski family — Ruslan & Tihomira. Links, profiles and more.
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NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly
This blog has been moved to https://neeto.com/blog/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is-a-commodity-and-is-priced-accordingly .
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It's easy to underprice your product (2009)
What’s the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it’s apparently $0. And it’s also $1 million. What? Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these…
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Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Why VC funding can hurt startups: selling equity for cash, chasing traction over profitability, and why bootstrapping may be safer for founders.
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Kagi raises $670k
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
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Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
Visa (NYSE: V) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash.
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The idea maze for AI startups (2015)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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We raised a bunch of money
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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How I feel quitting my own startup
I left my own startup after almost 5 years of hard work. It was a tough decision, but a necessary one.
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11 years of hosting a SaaS
Lots of mistakes, some uptime too.
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SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple
Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.
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Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics
An overlooked part of the Nordic tech-ecosystem
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Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
bit.io is joining Databricks, where co-founders Adam Fletcher and Jonathan Mortensen and the team will apply their expertise to deliver groundbreaking new developer experiences for data and AI.
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Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
How to separate the wheat from the chaff when GPT-powered startups are popping up everywhere
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How and why we acquired our .com domain
The story of acquiring and migrating from supertokens.io to supertokens.com
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Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Dear Pinecone Community, I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. We raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from ICONIQ Growth, and our existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. This funding brings our valuation to $750 million, hitting…
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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the projects that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality.
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LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
LangChain secures $10M seed round from Benchmark to empower developers building AI apps with our open-source framework for data-aware, agentic LLMs.