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Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open-source business management software developer, at a $2.3B+ valuation

TechCrunch

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself.

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Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M

TechCrunch

Given the pace of development, good performance isn’t always easy to maintain. Searching for an automatable solution, four siblings — David, Daniil, Anna and Maria Liberman — co-founded Product Science , a startup that develops performance management software for apps.

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Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment

Martin Fowler

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. It was developed by Kent Beck in the late 1990's as part of Extreme Programming. For more depth, head to Kent Beck's book Test-Driven Development. Revisions My original post of this page was 2005-03-05.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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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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Ride the AI wave: Learn to flow

CIO

We had EDS University; we developed EDS Salesforce (before Salesforce was even a thing); and we created the EDS Playbook, a repository of strategies executed across 66 countries. In 2005, EDS made a groundbreaking investment by rolling out neuroscience-based coaching. At that stage, it was not a fast learner.

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Haxe: Cross-platform Development's Best-kept Secret

Toptal

The modern, cross-platform programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, yet many developers have never heard of it. Since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal—if rather quiet—following.