vsaw, “The best companies are bought, not sold”, so Humane looking for a buyer does not sound like a good sign
From: @TechCrunch
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112484691178716943
idw_online, German Wie ein mit #Photovoltaik ausgestatteter halbmobiler Agrarroboter eine umweltgerechte #Landwirtschaft voranbringen könnte, zeigt das von der @umweltstiftung geförderte #DBUprojekt vom #Startup AI.Land.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/05/07/mit-roboter-ki-und-photovoltaik-mehr-gewinn-fuer-umwelt-und-gemueseacker
metaphil, German Kirche 2.0: Pastor*innen heißen ab sofort „Feelgod Manager“ #TypoDesTages #hirnfurz #startup #FeelgoodManager
enverdemichelis, Italian Guanciale a 60 $ al chilo, dobbiamo fare il marchio Punteataly e venderlo pure noi lo compriamo a 15 € al mercato di Centocelle spedizioni con posta prioritaria e via
ai6yr, IEEE Spectrum: The Messy Reality Behind A Silicon Valley Unicorn. A VC-backed startup's push for growth left little time for actual engineering. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup #startup #potemkinvillage
n1vux, @ai6yr
^Shocked, Shocked.^Only thing more toxic that 90-day long-term planning continual growth need of publicly traded co's is VC/PE growth demands.
ai6yr, @n1vux "Engineering team" is a misnomer. "We'll outsource that algorithm instead of writing software" = "our software team doesn't know how to write software".
HonkHase, German What a sh*t of a #startup 🔥🔥🔥
Price of #0day #exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
"A startup is now offering millions of dollars for tools to hack iPhones, Android devices, WhatsApp, and iMessage"
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/06/price-of-zero-day-exploits-rises-as-companies-harden-products-against-hackers/
vsaw, You work in IT and want a job where you can really save tons of CO2? Vamo, a heatpump startup, is looking for people to join their IT-team to help them connect heatpumps to the cloud!
https://www.getvamo.de/karriere
P.S. We are also looking for interns and working students!
vsaw, @Pampelmops If you want we can jump on a quick 30min call next week and I’ll tell you more about Vamo and then you can decide if you want to apply or not 🙂
vsaw, @Pampelmops sorry I forgot you can reach me via valentin@getvamo.de or via my Linked In (just search for my name)
hostpoint, German Gründer wissen es bereits: Ein #Startup braucht die richtige Domain, das ideale Webhosting und ein effektives Toolkit. Doch wo soll man anfangen? Unser neuester Blogartikel hält die Antworten bereit: jetzt lesen!
🔗 https://hostpoint.ch/blog/von-null-auf-digital-was-start-ups-fuer-den-digitalen-start-brauchen/
paul_denton, French Faire laver les sous-vêtements sales, acheter de la drogue pour les clients, amuser le chat de la patronne... Le poste de "chief happiness officer" de The Family a viré à l’esclavage pour les fondateurs Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar et Nicolas Colin. On se doutait que ce poste était du bullshit, en fait c'était de la maltraitance... https://www.linforme.com/tech-telecom/article/the-family-revelations-sur-le-management-extravagant-d-ammar-zagury-et-colin_1502.html
#Travail #StartUp #Chat #Esclavage #SOS #Harcelement #Prudhommes
bmdv, German Deutschland ist schon jetzt #KI-Land. Wir haben gut ausgebildete Forscher, eine lebendige KI-#StartUp-Szene und eine wachsende Digitalwirtschaft, die international Investoren anzieht. 💡📱🚀
"Ich möchte unsere führende Rolle in Europa bei dieser Schlüsseltechnologie weiter ausbauen. Mit einem positiven offenen Blick auf die Chancen, die uns KI & #Digitalisierung bieten. Und mit innovationsfreundlicher Politik, die Unternehmern, Forschern und Erfindern den Rücken stärkt", so Wissing. #DFKI (1/2)
Foto: Michael Schäfer (dfki) Volker Wissing beim Besuch des Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz in Rheinland-Pfalz
Foto: Michael Schäfer (dfki) Volker Wissing beim Besuch des Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz in Rheinland-Pfalz
Foto: Michael Schäfer (dfki) Volker Wissing beim Besuch des Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz in Rheinland-Pfalz
EricGeneric, @bmdv #deutschland ist in der #ki #technologie so führend, dass die wirklichen Fachkräfte erkannt haben, dass das #schrott ist. Nur der #minister und ein paar #manager glauben noch daran. Ist wie #blockchain. Kannste in der Forschung dem #staat gelb mit aus dem #arsch ziehen. Ansonsten verbraucht es nur sinnlos Strom. Das wars. Aus dem Strom macht man lieber e-fuels für #lindners #porsche.
bmdv, @EricGeneric Psst: Kleiner Hinweis! KI ist mehr als nur Chatgpt 😉
aniltj, ⟨ " Our economy is dominated by five aging tech giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. In the last twenty years, no company has commercialized a new technology in a way that threatens them. Why?
We argue that the tech giants have learned how to coopt disruption.
They identify potentially disruptive technologies, use their money to influence the startups developing them, strategically dole out access to the resources the startups need to grow, and seek regulation that makes it harder for the startups to compete. When a threat emerges, they buy it off. And after they acquire a startup, they redirect its people and assets to their own innovation needs.
These seemingly unrelated behaviors work together to enable the tech giants to maintain their dominance in the face of disruptive innovations. " ⟩
In addition to the tactics noted in the paper, the manner in which incumbents use standards development organizations and industry consortia to slow-roll anything that disrupts their existing product lines, and try to re-direct anything disruptive to something that they can (barely) incrementally implement is something that is not appreciated enough!
H/T to @pluralistic for his essay which provided the pointer to this paper. Link to essay @ https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/08/permanent-overlords/
samhainnight, @aniltj @pluralistic They also acquire startups only to shelve their tech innovations. I know someone who used to do startup acquisitions for Microsoft. 20 yrs ago they bought a startup that found a way to make computers unhackable. They were so excited about the tech and how it would help. Microsoft shelved it. They don’t do acquisitions anymore.
Npars01, The big five have learned their lessons well from their fossil fuel venture capitalists.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-peter-thiel-rupert-murdoch-met-with-bin-salman-2020-1https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/1/23702451/silicon-valley-saudi-money-khashoggi
The auto & fossil fuel industry thwarted green energy alternatives for decades using the exact same methods.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/16/oil-industry-electric-car-1729429
mattotcha, A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/a-startup-allegedly-hacked-the-world-then-came-the-censorship-and-now-the-backlash/ #startup #hacking #AppinTechnology #censorship #RajatKhare #EFF #SPEECHAct
FabianLaasch, German
bodomenke, German @FabianLaasch Und als CIO bekommst Du dann neben den Mails von den Body-Leasing-Buden noch Headhunter-Mails, massig Invites zu „Kamingesprächen“ und erlesenen IT-Führungskreisen und Interview-Anfragen zu Thema X.
Muten in der Inbox ist mindestens so wichtig wie hier. 😉
preslavrachev, A little less than three years ago, in the midst of the COVID Pandemic, we launched this tiny web app: https://networkd.eu Then, we dumped it aside.
I won’t pitch it to anyone, because frankly, I don’t think I have the energy to manage so many things in a day. Suffice to say, it hasn’t found its prime time.
And yet, I’ve been going through the flow recently, and I was blown away how complete and smooth it feels, given, we only invested about a month’s work on it tops.
preslavrachev, It just pains me that more people haven’t had the chance to see it for themselves, and help us polish the use case. Of course, we then dove ourselves into @murmel_social and lots of client work, so it was normal to keep some thing aside. But I still want to see networks sort of start a (however small) life of its own.
davemark, Startup idea:
Build a web site with up to the minute data on all the streaming services, and their associated partnerships.
Customers go there, click on all their streaming services and partnerships, they have access to.
Get a report back that shows how to get what I want for the least amount of money, taking advantage of those partnerships.
arathar, @davemark Yes, price comparison would be useful but I’ve often thought we need a “wherecaniwatch.com” that can direct viewers to foreign & hard to find titles. I was recently looking for the UK Ghosts final season but couldn’t find a way to see it without using a VPN. Could you get a bounty for signing up new streaming subscribers?
davemark, @arathar Love that suggestion!
mjgardner, A question for everyone whinging about “#BigTech”:
Almost every “tech #oligarch” began with a scrappy #startup supported by customers who were fans of their work, building them up to what you now hate.
Every case is different, but in general did too much success change them or do you just hate too much success?
mjgardner,
thomask, @mjgardner Every case is different but the big ones seem to be reading from the same script... more ads and tracking, more data locked up in cloud services, more AI trained on your stuff, less user-serviceable hardware, everything as a subscription, cozy international tax arrangements, dubiously moral supply chains for resources or low complexity work... Yes I do believe companies change when they get enormous and there's enough similarity from a consumer's experience to call it "big tech".
jgillich, Important lesson for founders: Make sure you get paid. I've realized we have a bunch of users with hundreds of Euros worth of unpaid bills. They've been sent multiple emails too, but even cancelling the hosting is too much to ask apparently? Every hosted app contributes to infra costs so this is doubly frustrating.
Oh well, now the policy will change from 'pay whenever you're able to' to 'pay within two weeks'.
marcosflobo, Spanish Right now, writing an issue about #backstage, which is part of the @cloudnativefdn
I'll cover:
❔What is Backstage
😵💫The problem I want to solve with Backstage
🔭Experience putting in place a Proof Of Concept#optimistengineer #startup #europe #softwareengineering #engineering #experiences #software #softwaredevelopment #developer #devrel #platformengineering #coding
BlnBDI, German ⚠️ Die für morgen geplante Online-Schulung zur #Speicherung und #Aufbewahrung von #Daten muss leider verschoben werden. Der neue Termin ist am:
Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2023, 11-13 Uhr
Es sind noch wenige Plätze frei, bei Interesse einfach per E-Mail an startup@datenschutz-berlin.de anmelden.
Weitere Infos: 👉 https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/themen/unternehmen/start-up-schule/#c1554
unikassel, German Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎇🚀Gestern Abend wurden bei der #Preisverleihung des Hessen Ideen Wettbewerbs 2023 die besten Gründungsideen aus den Hochschulen prämiert. #Startup
🥇LARABICUS bekommt den 1. Platz und gewinnt ausßerdem den Publikumspreis. 👏
📷: Patrick Schmetzer
BlackHeroe, German @unikassel
Aha, wofür denn?
Und Warum ohne Link?
realn2s, German
AlexCrimi, The #Bootstrapping #Startup Operating System
Nice post from Ash Maurya, the old good idea of running #lean always apply. Getting #customer- funded not #VC-funded is better:https://www.runningleanmastery.com/p/the-bootstrapping-startup-operating
AlexCrimi, All #B2G dramas : "If governments want to help startups, they should stop being such terrible customers"
https://sifted.eu/articles/if-governments-want-to-help-startups#VC #venturecapital #startup life
BlnBDI, German Wie machen Sie personenbezogene #Daten unkenntlich? Wie stellen Sie sicher, dass nach dem #Löschen keine Daten mehr vorhanden sind? Und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Löschen und Vernichten? Diese und andere Fragen beantworten wir in unserer Start-up-Schule:
Löschen und Löschkonzept
8. November 2023, 11-13 UhrAnmeldung und weitere Infos: 👉 https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/themen/unternehmen/start-up-schule/#c1554
laprice, There's the usual #startUp brand of hubris; and then there is sending your project up on a rocket without having the paperwork cleared to let your return capsule land.
And illegal orbital drug manufacturers using return capsules to evade border control is a very #cyberpunk trope.
FabianLaasch, German #startup die zweite Woche.
So ein ständiges auf und ab der gegenteiligen Nachrichten hab ich noch nie erlebt. Irgendwie brauch ich da mal einen emotionalen Filter über einige Tage. 😅
vsaw, German @FabianLaasch @ralfSuess „Traditionell“ wird nach maximaler Große und Geschwindigkeit des Wachstum unterschieden. Deswegen werden z.B. Ingenieurbüros nicht klassisch als Startup bezeichnet weil meistens schlecht und langsam zu skalieren.
ralfSuess, German @vsaw @FabianLaasch ja, und ich war in den Anfangstagen nicht dabei, aber später glich es definitiv eher einem Ingenieurbüro oder einer klassisch deutschen KMU. Man hatte ja irgendwann einen sehr sicheren, langjährigen Vertrag vom Hauptkunden (BW)
Für ne Skalierung waren die Prozesse zu manuell/analog und zu der Zeit waren Drohnen kein Massenmarkt. Die aufkommende 'Spielzeug'-Industrie (DJI & Co.) wurde lange Zeit belächelt, obwohl dort die Innovationen stattfanden.