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The State Of Saas: After A Positive Start To 2024, Founders Can Find Success In A Reset Market
23 May

The State Of Saas: After A Positive Start To 2024, Founders Can Find Success In A Reset Market

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By Jimmy Fitzgerald SaaS businesses grew in 2023, but they did so at a much slower rate than the years of pandemic hypergrowth. At the same time, revenue growth was down and churn rates were at an all-time high, reflecting a period of “normalization” post-pandemic due to rising interest rates and enterprises cutting down on their software expenditures. Jimmy Fitzgerald After a year characterized by slowdowns and cutbacks, our analysis of real-time subscriptions data from more than 34,000 software companies in Q1 2024 shows that the SaaS market has started the year on a more positive note, with growth coming…
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Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen
23 May

Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

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A majority of US TikTok creators don’t believe the platform will be banned within a year, and most haven’t seen brands they work for shift their marketing budgets away from the app, according to a new survey of people who earn money from posting content on TikTok shared exclusively with WIRED.The findings suggest that TikTok’s influencer economy largely isn’t experiencing existential dread after Congress passed a law last month that put the future of the app’s US operations in jeopardy. The bill demands that TikTok separate from its Chinese parent company within a year or face a nationwide ban; TikTok…
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AT&T CEO: Focused on Always-On Connectivity
23 May

AT&T CEO: Focused on Always-On Connectivity

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AT&T CEO John Stankey joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow following his comments on the company's multi-year growth strategy at the JPmorgan technology conference. He discusses slowing demand for handsets, always-on connectivity, and why he thinks AST is more "consumer-centric" than Starlink. He speaks on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source: Bloomberg) Source link lol
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Defense Tech Funding Slows At Start Of Year
23 May

Defense Tech Funding Slows At Start Of Year

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Defense tech became a popular topic last year — especially as the likes of Gecko Robotics, Shield AI and True Anomaly racked up big rounds — but this year has not continued that hot streak for the industry. Through the middle of May, funding is less than half of what it was at the same point last year, per Crunchbase data, despite the war in Ukraine continuing into its third year and tensions in the Middle East running high.  In Q1, funding to startups in the industries of military, national security and law enforcement dropped to $118 million, a 74%…
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Sampling for Text Generation
23 May

Sampling for Text Generation

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ML models are probabilistic. Imagine that you want to know what’s the best cuisine in the world. If you ask someone this question twice, a minute apart, their answers both times should be the same. If you ask a model the same question twice, its answer can change. If the model thinks that Vietnamese cuisine has a 70% chance of being the best cuisine and Italian cuisine has a 30% chance, it’ll answer “Vietnamese” 70% of the time, and “Italian” 30%. This probabilistic nature makes AI great for creative tasks. What is creativity but the ability to explore beyond the…
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Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System
23 May

Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System

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On Wednesday morning a small group of people huddled over their phones at the foot of the giant glass skyscraper that houses Uber’s London headquarters. They were running an experiment in an attempt to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the platform economy right now: How Uber’s algorithm calculates driver pay.Beneath flags and banners calling on Uber to “Stop Dynamic Pricing,” one driver ordered a ride, acting as a customer to Heathrow Airport, and received a quote for £46. Seconds later, the job pinged up on the phone of a fellow protester, who had told the app he was…
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RFK Jr. joins the meme-stock crowd — and plows $24,000 into GameStop in a show of support
23 May

RFK Jr. joins the meme-stock crowd — and plows $24,000 into GameStop in a show of support

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined the meme-stock movement — and shown he's serious by investing in GameStop.The political scion and presidential candidate threw his lot in with the "apes" in a X post this week and cheered on the retail investors seeking to level the playing field by reining in Wall Street. Kennedy also endorsed their calls for market transparency, stricter regulation and harsher penalties for bad behavior. "My administration will support the Ape retail rebellion and enact aggressive Wall Street reforms," he said.I’m very aware of what the average retail investor has been saying about the need for…
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The Goldilocks Scenario Every VC Is Hoping For 
23 May

The Goldilocks Scenario Every VC Is Hoping For 

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Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed the meteoric top of the venture and startup markets where valuations were through the roof, investors were competing with each other on speed (instead of due diligence), founders were exclusively focused on raising the next round, and startups had an almost unlimited source of capital to pursue growth at all costs. Those days ended with a series of significant blows to the ecosystem including the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, global wars and rising interest rates. Now the industry has settled into a new, healthy normal where valuations have returned to reasonable levels, only…
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