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Series A Rounds Are a Math Test
Founders

Series A Rounds Are a Math Test

Low monetization requires extraordinary traction, and vice versa.

5 min read
Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck
Founders

Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck

A frothy funding environment means more competition for talent. Funding gets easier; hiring gets harder.

7 min read
Breaking Apart the Rule of 40
Investors

Breaking Apart the Rule of 40

Rules are meant to be broken, and the Rule of 40 is no exception

6 min read
Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liability
Founders

Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liability

Preferred equity exists in a constant state of quantum superposition. It's neither equity nor debt, until it is.

9 min read
Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV
Investors

Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV

ACV isn't as useful a concept as people think. We need a different SaaS monetization metric.

9 min read
Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations
Investors

Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations

Companies don't catch up to their valuations; their valuations catch up to them.

6 min read
WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine
Developers

WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine

Rather than ship data to code, which is expensive and latency-prone, why not ship code to the data?

5 min read
You Can't Eat Relative Growth
Founders

You Can't Eat Relative Growth

In startup land, we talk way too much about relative growth. We'd do better to ground our thinking in absolute growth.

10 min read
Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?
Investors

Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?

The super-rich earn more on their investments than the rest of us. Something nefarious, or something else?

10 min read
PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used To
Founders

PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used To

The burden of scientific knowledge and managerial complexity is crushing our best and brightest.

12 min read
Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight
Founders

Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Why you shouldn’t filter for social media following or prior experience

6 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

5 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

7 min read
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel
Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

8 min read
Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

10 min read
Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party
Investors

Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

4 min read
Why Developers Love Redpanda
Developers

Why Developers Love Redpanda

Why Vectorized's focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers

8 min read
There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number
Founders

There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

14 min read
Product-Market Fit is Lindy
Founders

Product-Market Fit is Lindy

The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.

8 min read
Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
Developers

Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

10 min read
Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed
Investors

Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed

In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.

10 min read
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)
Research

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)

Large Transformer trained on large datasets outperform CNN-based architectures and achieve state of the art results on image recognition tasks

8 min read
Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)
Research

Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)

Transformer model pre-trained on document retrieval and reconstruction performs well on both fine-tuned and zero-shot downstream tasks

8 min read
Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups
Founders

Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

9 min read
Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity
Founders

Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

12 min read
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