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.
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?
Founders PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used To The burden of scientific knowledge and managerial complexity is crushing our best and brightest.
Founders Open Your Eyes. Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight Why you shouldn’t filter for social media following or prior experience
Founders The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency
Founders The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps
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
Founders Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today
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.
Developers Why Developers Love Redpanda Why Vectorized's focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers
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
Founders Product-Market Fit is Lindy The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.
Developers Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers
Investors Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.
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
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
Founders Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders
Founders Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.
Investors Why Don't VCs Index Invest? VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.
The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generation You might think the value of a college degree has been increasing. You would be wrong.
Developers Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybe Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think
Investors Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud When to raise capital, what to expect from VCs, and the "new normal"
Developers Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers Working remote even just a few days per month leads to higher pay
Developers How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers
