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

TechCrunch

You can’t make a business model out of owning the legal rules that citizens have to follow; you have to find some other way to support your business which ICC has done, by getting revenue from program services.” Property data, statistics and other kinds of government data can also support new businesses.

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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. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g., The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? How it May Apply to Your Business?

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year.

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

TechCrunch

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. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. I went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad in Computer Science, and I just found such a supportive community there that it was able to help support my natural interest, but also help me through the hard times.