This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
Crypto Banking Startup Dakota Raises $12.5M for Global Stablecoin Push - Dakota, a crypto-integrated banking platform for businesses, has raised $12.5 million in ... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/15/crypto-banking-startup-dakota-raises-125m-for-global-stablecoin-push #stablecoin #coinfund #finance #news #vc
BTC-Only VC Ego Death Capital Closes $100M Fund for Projects Building on Bitcoin - Venture capital firm (VC) firm ego death capital, which focuses on Bitcoin BTC (and Bitco... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/08/btc-only-vc-ego-death-capital-closes-100m-fund-for-projects-building-on-bitcoin #bitcoinfunds #finance #bitcoin #funds #news #vc
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Despite smaller VC pools, Australia now tops the world in unicorns per dollar invested, thanks to lean tech innovators like Canva and Atlassian - imagine what even more funding and support could do.
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Rise and Fall of Grassroots #OpenWeb
To understand where the #Fediverse and the #OpenSocialWeb are heading, and how not to lose our way, we need to reflect on where we’ve come from. The history of grassroots #openweb activism offers both inspiration and hard lessons.Foundations are built by real people, social movements start local, they begin with people on the margins – those directly affected by injustice – taking action with the tools they have. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, tech projects like #Indymedia were the […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/rise-and-fall-of-grassroots-openweb/
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The epitome of Silicon Valley: a startup to help people “cheat on everything.” Best three-word summary of the history of America from 1492 onwards.
The perfect Trump-era fraud.
And OF COURSE a16z would rush in to fund this crap.
Ranked: The World’s Top Startup Cities in 2025
https://zurl.co/RIKw5
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Moorpark Us101 N / Wendy Dr **Report of Fire** 8:19 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
We need rent control, nation wide, based off an areas median income. Simple math. We have the data. Enough is enough. #housing #oligarchy #collusion #landlords #vc
I'm the #CEO of a multi million dollar #VC funded #startup. Due to the #Pareto Principle, which tells me we only need 20% of people for the second 80% of the result, I have deducted that we can fire 80% of our employees. #quickMaths
Tesonet invests in Lithuanian SportsTech startup FPRO https://www.byteseu.com/1072024/ #announcement #BoardMember #business #financial #football #FootballAcademy #FPRO #investment #Lithuania #SportsTech #Startup #Technology #tesonet #TesonetGlobal #uab #vc
"Builder.ai lacked true AI, instead utilising a group of Indian developers who were merely pretending to be bots writing code."
It's hilarious to see the online reaction to this. It has been common knowledge for YEARS.
The Wall Street Journal already questioned the "AI" part of builder.ai in 2019: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004
Techcrunch mentioned it in 2022: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/builder-ai-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-insight-partners-to-scale-up-its-software-automation/
I don't hang out on #Bluesky and I'm all in on the #Fediverse, but I have to admit that when I occasionally go over to Bluesky to see a thread that somebody has linked here or that was bridged here via #BridgyFed, I find that the comments on the thread tend to be quite good.
There's definitely an early-Twitter-before-it-turned-to-shit vibe to it.
Mind you, I don't think it will last, because everything backed by #VC eventually eventually enshittifies, but right now, it really is pretty good.
Ventura 0 Sr33 **Report of Fire** 5:15 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
Moorpark Us101 S / No Conejo Scales **Car Fire** 1:21 PM #CHP #VenturaCounty #VC
https://www.europesays.com/uk/146903/ This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI Lab #Business #Entrepreneurship #GeneralCatalyst #HemantTaneja #Kayak #MidasList #PartnerHero #PatrickCollison #Stripe #SummaHealth #UK #UnitedKingdom #vc #VentureCapital