Founders Series A Rounds Are a Math Test Low monetization requires extraordinary traction, and vice versa.
Founders Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck A frothy funding environment means more competition for talent. Funding gets easier; hiring gets harder.
Investors Breaking Apart the Rule of 40 Rules are meant to be broken, and the Rule of 40 is no exception
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.
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.
Investors Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations Companies don't catch up to their valuations; their valuations catch up to them.
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?
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 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.
