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Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business
Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report. We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to…
Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown
Crate.io will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch as an upstream project for CrateDB and open source its entire codebase under the APLv2 with CrateDB 4.5
Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
How not to get acquired
I launched Gittip.com 16 days ago. It saw really strong initial uptake, then it got side-swiped by a botched acquisition. Herewith, a cautionary tale.
IntelliJ IDEA goes open source
I believe you'll like this announcement — IntelliJ IDEA has just gone open-source! Check out the press release as well as the new jetbrains.org community site for the details. We all will soon g
Nobody Cares (2011)
All the mental energy you waste complaining would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined…
How we validated our SaaS product without building it
Build, collaborate on, and localize on-brand email templates without code. Trusted by Canva, Culture Amp, and 300+ global teams. See how it works.
Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce
Microsoft has filed suit against Salesforce for infringing the following patent: Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display Aut…
Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
To make the world's most detailed print maps, we only make maps when our data resolution exceeds that of our printed resolution and we print our maps using the highest resolution mediums available.
Strategy is not X
Strategy is the madness towards the destination, not the destination itself.
OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
The entire team has joined OpenAI.
SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
We've never seen a subpoena before, have you? Check this out...
GitLab acquires Peach Tech and Fuzzit
Acquisitions will make GitLab the first security solution to offer both coverage-guided and behavioral fuzz testing
Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Starting today, if you use Google Apps for Work or Edu, you can schedule meetings from anywhere with "Find a time" in Google Calendar for Android.
Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark
Venture capital marks are highly variable based on different valuation methods. These are the main "mark" valuation methods used by venture firms.
Making money twice
A good portion of this industry is still trying to figure out how to make money for the first time (hint: charge people). But for those who’ve mastered that, I want to talk about the next step: making money twice (or three or four times). Making money off original content isn’t hard …
Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS GovCloud (US)