Category: Startups
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The hard part was never building
The ability to complete no longer hinges solely on how many features you can build. The engineering gap between a two-person startup and a hundred-person org has collapsed.
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The logistics of moving from London to New York
How to move from London to New York. Considering US visas, getting a US bank account, dealing with US / UX tax, and other logistics for the move.
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Building the future of developer security at Arcjet + seed funding from a16z
I decided to start Arcjet. We’re building a suite of core security components which help developers protect their apps in production.
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Developers spending time on go-to-market
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that most developers do not focus enough on go-to-market.
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You can only have one top priority
Can you have more than one priority? No. That just means nothing is your top priority.
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Devtools startups – standing out to investors
When I’m talking with a startup founder about a possible investment I’m trying to find out a few things: team, scale, timing, product, developer flow, stickiness.
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Focusing on developers
Developers face an onslaught of marketing and an unrelenting velocity of releases to keep up with. This is why we started Console.
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My new startup – Console – the best tools for developers
What’s next? 1) Console – a free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers; 2) researching sustainable computing at Uptime Institute.
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Barriers for startups tackling data center energy consumption
There is scope to start something tackling the problem of data center energy consumption. However, there are significant challenges: how to measure the problem, the uncertainty around the current situation, and the limited number of growth buyers.
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The prosumer software commercial go-to-market approach
Pure prosumer software might be new but the fundamentals haven’t changed. Products cannot be successful without a deliberate commercial go-to-market approach.