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Amazon Adds $2.75B to Its Stake in the A.I. Startup Anthropic

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Chicken Sexing and Knowing

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·FollowDetermining the sex of a newborn chick has been a problem that has plagued the poultry...
·FollowDetermining the sex of a newborn chick has been a problem that has plagued the poultry industry for centuries.For a poultry farmer, the male chicken is useless. They don’t lay eggs, their meat is stringy and farmers ideally want to get rid of them as soon as they are born. The problem is, it’s impossible to d...

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Carta launches a startup shutdown service

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Carta was my second company. My first company was a robo advisor called Secondsight. It was...
Carta was my second company. My first company was a robo advisor called Secondsight. It was a bad version of Wealthfront or Betterment. Josh and Andy did a much better job than me and so I shut down my company after two years.When I laid off my first engineer Alexander, he was so kind and supportive. I asked if he w...

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Learnings from our 8 years of Kubernetes in production

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Early on at Urb-it, before I joined, we decided to use Kubernetes as a cornerstone for...
Early on at Urb-it, before I joined, we decided to use Kubernetes as a cornerstone for our cloud-native strategy. The thinking behind this choice was our anticipated rapid scaling, coupled with the desire to leverage container orchestration capabilities to get a more dynamic, resilient, and efficient environment for...

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Basecamp Valuation Tops $100B After Bold VC Investment (2015)

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CHICAGO — December 1, 2015–Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group...
CHICAGO — December 1, 2015–Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The financing round was led by Yardsti...

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Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Carta: When Your Company Tries to Cancel You

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On December 26th, 2023, I sued Carta for wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, breach of...
On December 26th, 2023, I sued Carta for wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, defamation, implied defamation, false light, publication of private facts, and intentional infliction of emotional distress; in violation of Title VII of the Federa...

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Carta to exit secondary trading business

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For those interested, let me provide more context below.Liquidity has been a problem I wanted to...
For those interested, let me provide more context below.Liquidity has been a problem I wanted to solve for almost a decade. From our Series A deck back in 2014.Nasdaq for Private Markets?We started eShares 10 years ago as the “Nasdaq for Private Markets” (we were not “the captable company”) because I wanted to solve...

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How We Handle Cap Table Information – Henry Ward

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On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch...
On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch with the founders and I’m appalled we made that mistake and it should never have happened. It is unacceptable and we’ve dealt with the violation on Saturday morning and are continuing the investigation to make sure it nev...

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Copying Big Tech Is Hurting Startups

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Looking up to the big dog.In hype-heavy SaaS Startup land, looking in awe at the big...
Looking up to the big dog.In hype-heavy SaaS Startup land, looking in awe at the big boys and what they’ve achieved is the natural state of being.Every startup wants to be a unicorn, so whatever these companies do is taken for sweet cake, overanalyzed and used as blueprints for success.There’s nothing wrong with lea...

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Why Are Most Startups Burning Through So Much Cash?

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Slow it down.Photo by Jp Valery on UnsplashYou’re acting as if the current bubblicious fundraising environment...
Slow it down.Photo by Jp Valery on UnsplashYou’re acting as if the current bubblicious fundraising environment will continue indefinitely.You’re acting as if all of your unproven hypotheses will turn out correct.You’re acting as if your seed round valuation increased your likelihood of success.You’re acting as if yo...

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Amazon Adds $2.75B to Its Stake in the A.I. Startup Anthropic

Chicken Sexing and Knowing

Carta launches a startup shutdown service

Learnings from our 8 years of Kubernetes in production

Basecamp Valuation Tops $100B After Bold VC Investment (2015)

Show HN: Startup funding simulator

Carta: When Your Company Tries to Cancel You

Carta to exit secondary trading business

How We Handle Cap Table Information – Henry Ward

Copying Big Tech Is Hurting Startups

Why Are Most Startups Burning Through So Much Cash?