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  • More Female Founders

    Not only more Female Founders, but also more successful Female Founders, measured by unicorns, have entered the startup universe. Those are companies that passed the $1 billion in valuation. Crunchbase, the leading platform for professionals to discover innovative companies, has the data: Crunchbase data shows what ‘overperforming’ really means: 2019 has been a historic year…

  • Understanding Internet Disruptions

    David Belson, former Akamai Internet Analyst, now working for Internet Society, explained “Internet Shutdowns” in his latest blog post. In March 2019, in a move described in one news report as a “government-imposed Internet shutdown,” the president of Sri Lanka temporarily blocked Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Viber, and other services. In this case, limited access to…

  • Rise of Skywalker

    Gizmodo promisses to be largely spoiler free in their article, but doesn’t seem to be convinced. Here’s how Rise of Skywalker is a disappointing end for the saga.:

  • Animation: Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)

    Moore’s Law in Action: You’ll probably remember the prediction back from your days in University. In essence, Mr. Moore, founder of Fairchild Semi and CEO of Intel, predicted the density of transistors in modern integrated systems will double about every 18 months. He was right for a long time, while many predicted the end of…

  • The possibility to understand: SaaS Product Metrics

    Part of the compelling nature of SaaS Products is the possibility to understand the user and improve on the go. Any Product Manager will literally have to understand what are the use-cases for customers and how to focus on the important areas. Just recently our team led the debate which metrics would be the right…

  • Breaking Walls Between Business and Engineering

    All too often, two departments are burried in deep arguments for most of their days. While business, the outbound oriented Product Management department, leads customer conversations and verifies business requirements, engineering is pushing towards a better product. Their goals are not always aligned despite the necessity to build a product together. Overcoming controversial goals can…

  • Lego’s shatter proof Cyber Truck

    Only recently, Tesla revealed it’s Cybertruck, with alegedly shatter proof windows. News has it the presentation was well prepared. Elon Musk, the companies CEO, still kind of died inside during the presentation, when on stage asked a guy to try and break the glass. Now, Lego introduced the really shatterproof option:

  • The Road to Python3

    When Python3 came out in 2009, it was already heavily debated. Python3 would be incompatible with previous versions of the popular language, but fix many drawbacks. While the vision was clear and the community initially planned to move forward much quicker. The demand for having a 2.x branch was so huge, however, that the community…

  • Former Munich Mayor Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux

    Christian Ude speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws) Techrights.org Source: Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux | Techrights

  • Klimaanalyse: „Oktoberfest“

    Was für die Münchner unter den Lesern. Oktoberfest ‘produces 10 times as much methane as Boston’ Via The Guardian.