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My Number One Advice for Startups or VCs: Conviction > Consensus

Both Sides of the Table

Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. Then they need to take all the input they received, mix it up, apply a framework for how the information affects your decision and decide. conviction > consensus.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

Get your lead Ruby dev to blog a controversal post on some nuance in the latest frameworks and get it posted to Hacker News. You can do the same with tips on selling from your VP of Sales, or a bold statement on a blog post like "All sales will be virtual by 2015" in order to bring the community out of the woodwork.

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App monitoring platform Sentry gets $60 million Series D at $1 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Accel led Sentry’s seed funding in 2015, and has invested in each of its rounds since then. Its Series D will be used on product development, like adding support for more languages and frameworks, and hiring for its offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Vienna.

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Annoyed by the limitations of traditional frameworks and CMSes, many of which weren’t developed with mobile websites in mind, they decided to create their own solution, Strapi, to use for clients’ projects. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015.

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Japanese Regulator Plans to Double Crowdfunding Investment Cap for Retail Investors

AsiaTechDaily

Japan initiated its startup crowdfunding framework in 2015 through revisions to the financial instruments regulation. The Financial Services Agency is taking steps to introduce financial products in 2024, following discussions held within a working group of the Financial Services Council, an advisory body to the Prime Minister.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik. But, at the same time, the number of projects (repositories) has grown at an even higher rate: from 600,000 to 359 million.

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SOC Prime lands $11M Series A to become ‘Spotify for cyber threats’

TechCrunch

Currently, the platform is home to more than 130,000 detections aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, a curated knowledge base of known adversary threats, tactics and techniques. .” This curates threat detection content from nearly 400 researchers and allows you to pull it into your existing SIEM and XDR platforms.