The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 41 posts.
€6.5M in revenue, 65% EBIT margins, a full infrastructure migration, and enough features shipped to make your head spin — all with 13 people. Ten years in, still small, still profitable, still having...
How a video game company built an empire by inverting the playbook
I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong, superangel Elad Gil, #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt, Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz, Stanford professor Dan Boneh, and NBA player Kevin Durant. I…
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion. The round is led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also
We are in the middle of the biggest red ocean I have ever seen in software development.
Nvidia's $110B vendor financing strategy mirrors Lucent's telecom bubble playbook. Analyzing customer concentration, GPU-backed debt, depreciation schedules & cash flow patterns to assess AI bubble risks.
CTO as a Service / Fractional CTO by Sergey Khaladzinski2025155 points114 commentsCareer & Management details
I can't believe it's been five years since my last post… Five years since I decided to join an early stage startup as the CTO / "the tech guy". Five years since I took my last train
Someone once told me hardware is hard...
And 11 signs you've got it backwards
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
There’s an old startup mantra — probably from the early Airbnb or Y Combinator days — that goes: “Do things that don’t scale.”
The biggest hurdle is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance.
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
A no-BS guide for new startups, new products, new GTM approaches, and new features
Raising our Series B round of financing
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or di…
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
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The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
We’re excited to announce the Llama Startup Program, a new initiative to empower early stage startups to innovate and build generative AI applications with Llama.
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
Why splitting your codebase too early can quietly destroy your team’s velocity — and what to do instead.
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
Plus: My interview with Oscar co-founder Mario Schlosser
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