TechCrunch+ Roundup: How pitch decks fail, inside the AI hype cycle, budgeting for a downturn
When I’m dining out in unfamiliar territory, I’ll usually find a restaurant on the beaten path — if a place has no customers, it makes me leery. Tech investors have similar appetites when it comes to follow-on investment, writes Champ Suthipongchai, co-founder and general partner at deep tech VC firm
Read MoreSoftware and the Allee effect
The Allee effect is named after Warder Clyde Allee who added a term to the famous logistic equation. His added term is highlighted in blue. Here N is the population of a species over time, r is the intrinsic rate of increase, K is the carrying capacity, and A is
Read MoreNikola CEO steps down, replaced by chairman
EV truck maker Nikola Corp. said Friday that president/CEO Michael Lohscheller is leaving the top executive positions due to a family health issue. He will be replaced by board chairman Steve Girsky, a former GM board member and the CEO of the special purpose acquisition company that merged with Nikola
Read MoreMy First VisionOS Application
Learn some basics of VisionOSSource: apple.comI’ve been working on SwiftUI projects for a while, and I’m really interested in the brand-new upcoming operating system, visionOS. It utilizes frameworks like SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit. I want to play around with it and build a simple app for visionOS.Discover VisionOSApple Vision Pro offers
Read MoreImproving My Code by Returning Early, Returning Often!
Photo by Joel Henry on UnsplashI’ve been a developer for over five years, and one of the best things I’ve learned is functional programming. Which gets a lot of hype and can be a bit daunting, but I’ve broken it down into a few simple ideas:Returning early and oftenSingle purpose functionsThese are pretty
Read MoreA Simple Demo To Analyze 32GB AML Data With DuckDB
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Read MoreEmployee banking information stolen from Tennis Canada in cyber incident: Report
Tennis Canada, a non-profit that oversees professional events and junior training programs, has acknowledged being hit by a cyber event in June resulting in “precautionary identity theft protection and credit monitoring to all of our employees.” In a statement this week, the association said that after an investigation last month
Read MoreThe US could learn a lot from how the UK is crafting DEI policy for venture capital
The U.K.’s Treasury Select Committee last month released a report on the diversity — or lack thereof — of the nation’s venture ecosystem. Black founders there receive less than 0.4% of all venture capital, and women founders receive around 2%, the report found. The report called such dismal stats “unacceptable.”
Read MoreEven as cloud growth continues to slow, market remains robust in Q2 at $65B
Cloud growth has been slowing for a number of reasons this year. Some of it has to do with macroeconomic headwinds causing customers to look to cut their cloud bills, some of it with a maturing market, which comes with an inevitable decline in growth. With the Big 3 cloud
Read MoreSolved problems becoming unsolved
“That’s a solved problem. So nobody knows how to solve it anymore.” Once a problem is deemed “solved” interest in the problem plummets. “Solved” problems may not be fully solved, but sufficiently solved that the problem is no longer fashionable. Practical issues remain, but interest moves elsewhere. The software written
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