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Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO

TechCrunch

The San Francisco-based company, co-founded by Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, is considering going public as early as the first quarter, sources […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with potential investors for an initial public offering.” All rights reserved.

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. He retired from public chess in 2005, and has since launched a foundation to help children have access to chess worldwide. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Banking isn’t the only ‘single point of failure’ entrepreneurs should be rethinking

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I mean, there’s a reason that VCs love co-founders: Eighty percent of billion-dollar companies launched since 2005 have had two or more founders, one study shows. Moving a company’s success beyond the individual founder or chief executive tasked with being the face of it is hard. Contradictions! We love them.

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Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment

Martin Fowler

Revisions My original post of this page was 2005-03-05. The relevant chapter of James Shore's The Art of Agile Development is another sound description that also connects it to the rest of effective agile development. James also wrote a series of screencasts called Let's Play TDD.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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Ottobock set to acquire fellow robotic exoskeleton maker SuitX

TechCrunch

Prior to launching the company and serving as CEO in 2012, Kazerooni founded Ekso Bionics in 2005. SuitX is a spinout from UC Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Lab, founded by mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni. That company went public back in 2014.

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India’s central bank gives lenders November-end ultimatum to comply with new digital loan rules

TechCrunch

.” “These directions are issued under sections 21, 35A and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, sections 45JA, 45L and 45M of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, sections 30A and 32 of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, section 6 of the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011 and section 11 of the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) (..)

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