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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
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Our $100M Series B
Raising our Series B round of financing
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Tailscale has raised $160M
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.
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I built an AI company to save my open source project
The story of Timefold: how we turned a doomed open source project into a fast-growing PlanningAI company.
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Sequoia backs Zed
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
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10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13
€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...
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Things we've learned about building products
To celebrate 50k subscribers to Product for Engineers, here are the 50 most important lessons we’ve learned about building great products.
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The profitable startup
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?
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N8n raises $180M
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
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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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Introducing the Llama Startup Program
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.
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The Profitable Startup
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?
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Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.