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Doing market research for startups and industries often requires sifting through previews of market reports looking for any firm numbers to compile into a coherent picture. Why the painful, error-prone process? Licenses…

Given the OpenAI restructuring as a "capped profit" LP [1], what does the cap table look like? What ownership do cofounders and investors have, and in what parts of the organization? [1]…

More specifically what is the business model for SRI [1]? SRI is a leading nonprofit scientific research institute, with $100M to $1B in annual revenues, and with a long list of for-profit spin-offs [2]. What is the…

Looking to compile sources that succinctly present best-practices for starting a software product startup from scratch, specifically the tech components (codebase(s), infra, tooling, etc.). For example, "A checklist of…

ELI5 how to start developing hardware (e.g. FPGA) that is specific to a class of algorithms :)

Bret Victor's writeup from 2015 is a wonderful read with useful pointers and data: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange It's been five years... if an addendum to this article were written today, what would it say?

For example Harvest: https://www.getharvest.com/ Anyone have experience with this for software engineers? I can think of few pros and many cons...

Anyone have some insight and willing to share what technologies are used at places like 23andMe, Color, Insitro, Freenome, Flatiron, etc [1]? That is, what's running client- and server-side, what cloud platform and how…

1. If company A and B are both early startups with complimentary services, and a merger objectively benefits both A and B, how is the topic broached? How would B sell A on a merger? 2. Now what if A and B are…