TAM/SAM/SOM is only for founders who think small
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. For VCs, market size is crucial, because it becomes a proxy for how big a company could possibly get, which in turn is a measure of how big the return on investment could be. That
Read moreWhat You Need To Know About gRPC Error Handling
Photo by Tamara Menzi on UnsplashThe official gRPC documentation hardly mentions error handling. It recommends using Google’s status package if you need a richer error model, but are there any alternatives?This article came about when I started wondering how error handling works. For example, what’s received by the client if the
Read moreLimitations of Scoped CSS
Photo by Nikita Kachanovsky on UnsplashI was excited about Scoped CSS when frameworks like React and Vue introduced them a few years back.As I began trying Scoped CSS out for myself, I was disappointed and felt it didn’t live up to its hype.But after more tries, I’m happy to announce that Scoped CSS
Read moreToyota hops on Tesla’s EV charging standard, leaving Stellantis and VW as holdouts
Another day, another convert: Toyota and Lexus electric vehicles will adopt Tesla’s chargers starting in 2025, Toyota said this week. The top automaker by global sales, Toyota is the latest to back the North American Charging Standard (NACS), following Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Nissan, Mercedes, GM and Ford, among others. In
Read moreTC+ Roundup: Did Atlassian pay a fair price for Loom?
Good morning, and welcome to Friday! Atlassian’s purchase of Loom last week raised eyebrows, and not just because it missed unicorn status by a hair. But overall, it makes sense that Atlassian bought it. “Teaming and collaboration is moving to async video, and that was the one big piece missing
Read moreMicrosoft would like to remind you that they are all-in on AI
In case you weren’t sure how Microsoft felt about AI, CEO Satya Nadella is here to tell you: they like it. They like it a lot. In the company’s annual report, he pens a letter to shareholders bigging up AI in every way. And it’s not hard to see why:
Read more6 tax-related do’s and don’ts for SaaS startups in 2023
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Read moreSuspected developer of Ragnar Locker ransomware arrested in Paris
The suspected developer of the Ragnar Locker ransomware strain is in custody in France and the malware’s IT infrastructure taken down after an international police operation, the Europol police co-operative announced Friday. The gang behind the creation and distribution of this strain was responsible for numerous high-profile attacks against critical
Read moreTape It’s software for musicians aims to deliver studio-quality noise reduction via AI
After Apple discontinued its Music Memos app favored by musicians for developing song ideas, a new startup called Tape It stepped in to fill the void with an app that leveraged AI to automatically detect the instrument and annotate the recording. Now that startup is taking the next step in
Read moreMapleSEC: How the Canadian government’s Cyber Centre helps infosec pros
What does the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security do for infosec pros? Quite a lot, according to Melanie Anderson, the federal agency’s director-general for secure solutions and services. In a keynote speech during IT World Canada‘s MapleSec series of cybersecurity presentations this week, Anderson outlined the free services the federal
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