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How Jeff Lawson Built a $64 Billion Company By Focusing On Developers

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Twilio is quietly changing the internet Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Newsletter: High-tech job vacancies soar + Code autocomplete

OurCrowd

High-tech job vacancies soar 300% despite Covid. The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index for Q2 2021 shows strong demand for startup recruits despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, with a 300% year-on-year increase in the number of jobs advertised from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021. There are now more than 3,300 jobs advertised on the OurCrowd Portfolio Jobs page. OurCrowd portfolio companies have no plans to slow down their proactive hiring strategy โ€“ more than 60% are growing their teams.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, which is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corporation. Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total.

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Newsletter: Startup of the Week: Tabnine: AI autocomplete for coders

OurCrowd

. Startup of the Week: Tabnine: AI autocomplete for coders. In a world where everything is going digital, there is a significant and growing shortage of software developer talent, with 920,000 job openings in the US alone. OurCrowd is investing in Tabnine , an Israeli startup whose AI-assistant for software development substantially improves productivity and quality of developers by saving them the time-consuming task of scouring depositories for strings of relevant code.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Chad Richison taught new internet users โ€˜how to hold a hammerโ€™

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. You have to teach people how to hold a hammer. In the information technology world, one of the great goals of design bears the moniker of โ€œplug-and-play.โ€ The idea is that new IT software or devices work perfectly as intended the minute they are installed or connected without any action or learning from the user. The concept has been around since the 1930s when ads for vacuum tube radios touted โ€œplug in and play.

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The World After Capital: Big Book News!

Continuations

I am super excited to share that my book The World After Capital is nearly finished. What is on the web site is more or less complete, with maybe a bit more copy editing coming. If you read the book now and find a typo please let me know or even better, make a pull request to fix it. A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed over the years, including everyone named in the acknowledgments.

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High-tech job vacancies soar

OurCrowd

High-tech job vacancies soar 300% despite Covid. The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index for Q2 2021 shows strong demand for startup recruits despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, with a 300% year-on-year increase in the number of jobs advertised from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021. There are now more than 3,300 jobs advertised on the OurCrowd Portfolio Jobs page. OurCrowd portfolio companies have no plans to slow down their proactive hiring strategy โ€“ more than 60% are growing their teams.