Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Well, this past week, the company came out with an indirect response to the latter in the form of a blog post written by its CEO Maju Kuruvilla. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures. You can read all about it here.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

You're in a different network of peers and they're getting some invites that you don't. In the past, my first instinct would have very well been to pour all of my frustration into a biting blog post that attacks the very nature of list creation, and the b t nature of velvet ropes. Where did I make that wrong turn?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Obviously, if narrow networks increase in popularity, more and more market share shifts to providers that are willing to respond to competitive market-based price demands.

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