Stack Overflow, the leading knowledge-sharing community for developers and technologists, is being acquired by Prosus, an internet holding company and investment firm, in a transaction that values the company at $1.8BM.
These are the 15 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of Q3 2020
Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of Q3 2020; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…
Stack Overflow Raises $85M to Boost its SaaS Offering for Teams to Collaborate and Share Sensitive Company Knowledge
The go-to resource for software engineers, Stack Overflow has served as the information exchange for anything coding related since 2008. The company is now increasing its focus on its SaaS offering – Stack Overflow for Teams, a collaboration platform and repository for sensitive company information. The overnight shift to remote work has fueled the growth of this product. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar shares some details on the impressive traction, the company’s future plans, and recent funding round from investors that include GIC, Silver Lake Waterman, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.
The 11 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of July 2020
Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of July 2020; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…
#NYCtech Week in Review: 7/26/20-8/1/20
NYC Tech News for the week ending 8/1 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Ro, Tire Agent, Bite, and much more…
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/3/20
The notable startup fundings for the week ending 8/1/20 featuring funding details for OpenSpace, Ro, Tempo, Circle, and much much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/28/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/28/2020 featuring funding details for Stack Overflow and much more.
The Science of Creating Startup Demand
If you gave a random person your product for the first time, do you think they will immediately become a loyal customer? Maybe not for most products but definitely for your product, right? Right. Creating demand for your product is more than just building a great product. People have to know about it, understand what […]
For Everyone Tired of Hearing that Learning to Code is Easy: the REAL Scoop
Recently, the man himself, Fred Wilson published a blog post about the importance of learning to code. His decree was simple and straightforward: If You Aren’t Technical, Get Technical. In particular, if you are a non-technical co-founder at a tech company…you must get technical. As the founder of Skillcrush, a technology education company, this is a topic […]
5 Days to Decide Whether You’re Ready to Found
A step by step process to evaluate your idea and, more importantly, whether you really want to be an entrepreneur. You have an idea that could grow into a world-changing, money-belching company. So you’re thinking of founding your first startup. The trouble is that there’s no obvious path to becoming an entrepreneur. In the […]