#tech-startups

#tech-startups

The frontman of the Black Eyed Peas spent the early 2000s driving his pop-rap group into the cultural zeitgeist and plowing some of those earnings into budding tech startups in the Bay Area. He joined one of Twitter's early funding rounds, and he put money into Tesla before Elon Musk became CEO, the musician told SFGATE in a wide-ranging interview at San Francisco's Dreamforce conference on Wednesday.

If you're building the future in frontier technologies like AI, you could base yourself anywhere. So the real question is where. The answer today points north-to Stockholm. The European Commission recently declared Stockholm as Europe's most innovative region. Ahead of Copenhagen, London, and Zurich, the Swedish capital took the top spot. Not just overall, but on a range of individual indicators, from lifelong learning and share of tech specialists employed to cross-border scientific publications, collaboration between SMEs, patent filings, and trademarks.

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis was joined by Jeremy Neufeld, the Director of Immigration Policy at the Institute for Progress, to break down what the recent H-1B change means for startups, founders, and the future of tech talent in America. Watch the full episode for more about: The massive loophole that lets 80% of H-1B applicants skip the $100,000 fee entirely Why the new wage system could give more visa slots to experienced acupuncturists than fresh AI PhD grads making $200K Why universities and national labs are stuck in limbo, knowing they have to pay but not knowing how

Vibe coding is best for low-stakes experimentation and not critical work, despite the excitement and funding around it.

When your Virginia tech startup experiences a security incident, Virginia Code Section 18.2-186.6 becomes your primary legal roadmap for response and notification. This statute governs security breach notifications and outlines specific actions businesses must take to inform affected parties.

"When time off is undefined, the good ones don't take PTO. The bad ones take too much. This leads to A-performer burnout. B-performer luxuries. And feelings of unfairness across the board."

In our journey with ElasticScale, it's become increasingly clear how much SaaS leaders and their dev teams relate to the problems we address: Infrastructure that's too complex, too costly, and too distracting.

Today's frontier models are optimized for coding, and they've made massive strides over the last couple of years, but they often don't capture the nuances of the entire software engineering process.

Before the advent of LLMs, I had to work with designers to communicate ideas to engineers, effectively just influencing others to create what I envisioned.