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$725M@11B Series F 2021 Dec $270M@5.8B Series E 2021 Mar $185M@2.6B Series D 2020 Sep $100M@1.1B Series C 2018 Nov $52M@152M Series B 2018 Mar

because conservation of energy dominates

what needs funding is clojure core, Clojurists Together is a nice effort to try to fill a gap but what my business needs, and other business owners tell me they need, is for the co…

+1 about overseas freelancers. And US customer to European freelancer is not the arb it used to be. The California SaaS sector has collapsed in the wake of venture capital rotating…

i was very early to React (like adopted for an enterprise app the day it came out publicly) and developed probably the first forms and state management libraries. they had screensh…

Human dev labor cost is still the high pole in the tent, even multiplying today's subsidized subscription cost by 10x. If the capability improvement trajectory continues, developer…

it doesn’t work if they are insolvent, and it can also backfire if they see this clause as a way to get a cheap cash loan. you should still have the clause but i think if this as a…

upfront billing of professional services (“consulting”) is worse for a few reasons, (1) requires the customer to trust you more (they cannot withhold payment if you screw them or v…

this does NOT need to be explained. They have accounts receivable too. They know how this works. Put the process in the contract and follow the process.

net 30 terms, invoice exactly on time NEVER late, “please find attached invoice N, also kindly following up on invoice N-1 which is now past due”, each invoice lists invoice histor…

try this for a UI

hiring criteria is not uniform, it varies widely across all companies. Keyword driven hiring + contrived interviews that are disconnected from the actual work being performed (but …

how do you know there is such thing as good code foundations, and how do you know you have it? this is an argument from ego

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Jetbrains

real answer - have generational wealth, attach the documents to your trust. This should last either until your nation’s currency collapses or the trust value does.

the question is more about making the content readable by his progeny. Otherwise, encode into bitcoin ledger, done.

20 years - google doc with backups in your email and wherever your taxes and medical stuff is, and printed copy with your home records 40 years - print and bind the google doc in 2…

backend devs needing to be fullstack but consider frontend to be beneath them

join after the A if you care about money. Join before the A if you are uniquely mission aligned or technology aligned, e.g. it’s 2016 and you want to work in VR, and aren’t optimiz…

skill issue