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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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But Tesla, too, has apparently used Godot to power some of the more graphically-intensive animations in its mobile app. Linux’s open source credentials were what led it to become the leading operating system for web servers, while Android’s mobile market share dominance can substantively be attributed to its Linux kernel base.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

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Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet. billion by 2026. More than 1.65

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Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors

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million registered users, Fatmap’s mission, ultimately, is to be the Google Maps of the great outdoors , with a premium subscription ($30 / year) unlocking access to extra features such as downloadable maps and route planning in the mobile app. Fatmap in action Image Credits : Fatmap / Strava With 1.6

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

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The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

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Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.