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ChatGPT & Taylor Swift

Tom Tunguz

You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. In 2008, after the iPhone app store launched, we asked each other, is there an app for that? But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

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QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Table of Contents. Where Web 2.0

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Top 8 SaaS Development Companies in 2024

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Aalpha Information Systems Rate: >$25 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2008 This full-service software development company was founded in Bangalore, India, and now has three more offices in Mumbai, Hubli, and Delhi. The company was recognized as one of the top blockchain companies in Kyiv and top Web3 developers in Ukraine.

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NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

Andreessen Horowitz

In his classic 2008 essay “ 1000 True Fans , ” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or … The post NFTs and a Thousand True Fans appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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It’s a FinTech startup that pioneers the cash-in cash-out blockchain remittances and allows users with no knowledge in the cryptocurrencies to join its decentralized network. Since 2008, she has been on the SAP team. Maxine’s passion? To provide freedom of financial services for everyone.

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Helping the Enterprise build reliable data products

Point Nine Land

Just to name a few: Splunk (started in 2003, $27bn market cap), Dynatrace (started in 2005, IPO, $12bn market cap), AppDynamics (started in 2008, acq for $3.7b A good number of them went on to become category-defining ones. You might have noticed that it makes A. C. ;) But we never invested in a monitoring platform focused on the data stack.

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a16z Podcast: The Truth about a 1000 True Fans (and Our Attention)!

Andreessen Horowitz

The idea of “ 1000 true fans ” — first proposed by Kevin Kelly in 2008 and later updated for Tools of Titans — argued that to be a successful creator, you don’t need millions of customers or clients, but … The post a16z Podcast: The Truth about a 1000 True Fans (and Our Attention)!