February 9, 2018
Understanding the Mendoza Line for SaaS growth
“How fast do I need to be growing to be interesting to a venture investor?” This is a question we get asked all the time by CEOs, and…
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February 9, 2018
Script’s app lets parents digitally sign school permission slips, pay for field trips
Schools are often late to taking advantage of new technologies, so today still do much of their business over paper forms. One pain point in particular – for…
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Script’s app lets parents digitally sign school permission slips, pay for field trips
Schools are often late to taking advantage of new technologies, so today still do much of their business over paper forms. One pain point in particular – for…
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Snapchat almost acqui-hired anonymous app Secret
Evan Spiegel secretly tried to hire away the team at Secret, but the price was too high. That’s according to three sources familiar with the deal who spoke…
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Snapchat almost acqui-hired anonymous app Secret
Evan Spiegel secretly tried to hire away the team at Secret, but the price was too high. That’s according to three sources familiar with the deal who spoke…
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Hacker group manages to run Linux on a Nintendo Switch
Hacker group fail0verflow shared a photo of a Nintendo Switch running Debian, a distribution of Linux (via Nintendo Life). The group claims that Nintendo can’t fix the vulnerability…
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Facebook confirms test of a downvote button for flagging comments
How can Facebook promote meaningful interaction between users? Apparently by letting them downvote inappropriate, offensive, or misleading comments to hide them. Facebook is now testing a downvote button…
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Human sequencing pioneer George Church wants to give you the power to sell your DNA on the blockchain
The blockchain is the buzziest thing on the internet these days and now MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your…
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Apple addresses iOS source code leak, says it appears to be tied to three-year-old software
Earlier this week, iOS source code showed up on GitHub, raising concerns that hackers could find a way to comb the material for vulnerabilities. Apple has yet to…
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Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for high-performance computing
Sylabs, the commercial company behind the open source Singularity container engine, announced its first commercial product today, Singularity Pro. Sylabs was launched in 2015 to create a container…
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