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2026

Taking Stock of the Seed Stageoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
Tokens Aren't Fungibleoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026

2024

Seed Valuations Aren’t Valuationsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
AI Benchmarking Is Brokenoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
The Venture Activity Index – Q4 2023original ↗
7 Mar 2024
The Series A Bustoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2024

2023

How Redpanda is Taking Data Streaming Mainstreamoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2023
The Venture Activity Indexoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2023
The Shadow Price of Venture Capitaloriginal ↗
14 Jun 2023
Don't Discount Interest Ratesoriginal ↗
10 May 2023
We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startupsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2023

2022

Old Valuations Die Hardoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
It's Valuations (Almost) All the Way Downoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2022
Beats and Misses Are Foreveroriginal ↗
14 Sept 2022
Layoffs Don't Tell the Whole Storyoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2022
COVID Hurt Most Software Companiesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
The Dark Matter of Software Valuationsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Series A Rounds Are a Math Testoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2022
Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneckoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2022
Breaking Apart the Rule of 40original ↗
3 Mar 2022
Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liabilityoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2022
Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACVoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2022

2021

Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuationsoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2021
WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engineoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2021
You Can't Eat Relative Growthoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2021
Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?original ↗
18 Aug 2021
PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used Tooriginal ↗
8 Jul 2021
Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sightoriginal ↗
25 May 2021
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Tableoriginal ↗
5 May 2021
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always Moreoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2021
The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheeloriginal ↗
31 Mar 2021
Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startupsoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2021
Robinhood Traders are Last to the Partyoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
Why Developers Love Redpandaoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2021
There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Numberoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2021

2020

Product-Market Fit is Lindyoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2020
Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developersoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2020
Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailedoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2020
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)original ↗
4 Oct 2020
Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)original ↗
29 Sept 2020
Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startupsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2020
Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivityoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2020
Why Don't VCs Index Invest?original ↗
3 Jul 2020
The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generationoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2020
Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybeoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatilityoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2020
Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloudoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developersoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2020
How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Payoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2020
The Highest-Paid Software Engineers: 2020 Editionoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2020
How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blueoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2020

2019

Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matchingoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2019
High Retention = High Volatilityoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2019
Waitlists are a Vanity Metricoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2019
How to Conquer Cohort Analysis With a Powerful Clinical Research Tooloriginal ↗
3 Jun 2019
Entrepreneur's Ruin, or How Not to Go Bustoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2019
Meet Dev, the Highest-Paid Software Developer in Americaoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2019

2018

The Growth-Share Matrix of Software Developmentoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2018
You Don't Understand Compound Growthoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2018