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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Developers The Highest-Paid Software Engineers: 2020 Edition Engineers are the basic economic unit of modern software development. The software production function depends critically on developer productivity and compensation. And yet software engineering pay remains poorly understood.
Founders How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue A quick visit to the Red Sea