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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

But the ICC, the nonprofit organization that develops the model code used or adopted for building regulations by all 50 states, claims UpCodes impacts its ability to make revenue and continue authoring new code. And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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Brex: The Future of Business Banking and Cash Management

Y Combinator

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs.

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Why the File System Wars Will Trigger a Wave of Consumer M&A

Tomasz Tunguz

Incumbents and startups alike are duking it out. The incumbents, Microsoft and Apple, leverage their own advantages heavily. Google entered the fray seeking to displace Office with a web based document creation suite whose by-product was an online file system that evolved into Drive. It may as well be the same one.

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Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’

TechCrunch

Fewer than 300 pages, the book parachutes the reader immediately into a cab journey in Ireland that Boden is taking post-financial crisis, when bankers weren’t exactly close to the public’s heart. How rival challenger bank Starling pranked Mondo on day new name Monzo was unveiled. “This is not my memoir, right.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

I’ve definitely tried to draw out this narrative into a bunch of videos, but the basic story is that a friend of mine, who’s still a really great friend of mine who lives in New York turned me on to, he’s an Android developer, or mobile developer at large now. He’s just doing everything.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

Brian Halligan [02:14] – I basically just block all that day Wednesday so no one can book a meeting there. I think what helped a lot of introverts, I don’t know about you guys, is when that lady wrote that, what was her name, wrote that book. Craig Cannon [03:56] – I felt that after that book came out.