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Pro rata rights allow investors to retain their percentage ownership in future rounds on the same terms as new investors.

Of all the roles and responsibilities an early stage startup CEO has, the most important is finding product market fit.

In software development, when you are spending time trying to implement something that the framework you are using either doesn’t do or makes it harder.

In frontend development, a component-driven workflow is a way of building websites and applications by breaking down the UI into smaller components and iterating on them independently and composing them together.

Each state requires new hires to be reported as per the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA).

After noticing abysmal performance of Docker for macOS and after a few Google searches (searching ‘docker macos performance’ yields 5MM hits) to confirm the issue, the recommended solution is to use Mutagen.

When a company chooses to operate in stealth mode it provides optionality in a couple of ways.

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MAP (metrics, activities, people) is a framework for thinking about SaaS value and pricing.

Python 3+ has type annotations that can be used for static type checking using a separate program.

A dynamic programming language used heavily in the startup and scientific community.

A software architecture doc (e.g. ARCHITECTURE.md) is a way of stating the overall structure of the code.

An antilibrary is one’s collection of books that they have not read.

This is a quote attributed to David Wheeler, an early computer scientist who also invented subroutines among other things.

A counter response to the growing sprawl of technologies that argues boring technology (tried and true, more mature) is far more effective than the latest shiny tool that gets popular on HackerNews.

Writing and sharing it is analogous to walking around naked in public.

An administrative services organization (ASO) is an outsourcing provider for HR related administrative work.

In 1930, Italian Futurists led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared that pasta should be replaced with futurists foods and in the meantime, rice.

When organizing the information architecture for a website of applications, there should be no straight line hierarchies.

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Most CI (continuous integration) tools run inside VMs in the cloud sometimes nested in other VMs.

News is the first pass at writing down the history of our time.