Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck
I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s only fair that I offered to evaluate its pitch deck, too. The founders saw the irony in that and offered its pitch deck as a sacrifice to the teardown gods. We’re looking
Read moreSearching for a TweetDeck alternative is a frustrating task
We knew this was coming. Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) finally made XPro (formerly TweetDeck) a subscriber-only product. It was a great tool for journalists, researchers and social media consultants to keep track of different timelines, lists, trends and keywords at the same time. The sad part is that it’s
Read moreIt’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor
If there was any hope remaining that LK-99 might be a room-temperature superconductor, it’s pretty much dead now. In fact, it’s worse than that. Pure samples of the substance show that it is an insulator — the opposite of a superconductor. The glimmers of hope that kept the story in
Read moreThe Overflow #191: Between product and engineering
Welcome to ISSUE #191 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: I/O-heavy operations on the edge, the earliest programs called AI, and happiness is a developer community called Laravel. From the blog Speeding up the
Read moreLow interest rates and loneliness: the origins of the pandemic crypto boom
Glauber Contessoto, also known as “Pro,” records a video about Dogecoin. | Image: This Is Not Financial Advice This Is Not Financial Advice and Easy Money attempt to explain the extremely online financial mania. Their very divergent takes show how difficult it is to fully understand. Finance is often taught
Read morePeak XV ramps up dealmaking following Sequoia split
Peak XV Partners has signed over 10 term sheets and executed three exits in the 10 weeks since it announced a split with Sequoia, according to minutes shared by an attendee to a closed-door gathering between the venture firm and its portfolio founders Friday. The accelerated dealmaking comes at a
Read moreFor climate tech startups, the IRA is starting to pay off
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, has allocated $400 billion in federal dollars for clean energy projects as the United States aims for up to a 40% reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. And even startups are beginning to benefit.
Read moreBuild a JavaScript Tool Library That Simulates Interfaces to Generate Random Data
Image generated using MidjourneyWhen it comes to web development, many frontend developers have experienced the waiting process for backend API integration. Initially, when the backend APIs are not ready, many developers are unable to start working and can only do some preliminary preparations, which can feel like a waste of time.Some
Read moreWhy generalist investors will always win
Will Robbins Contributor Share on Twitter Will Robbins is a general partner at Contrary Capital. More posts by this contributor In the new normal for VC, builders will win Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech Year after year, vertical-specific investors become increasingly central to the venture world. Andreessen Horowitz’s American
Read moreCommunication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities
Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed the answer to a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I’d arrived at the office? A short moment later, without even moving or
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