Booking.com Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising

Booking.com Data privacy has become a skill startups must master as they scale. As they grow, startups often collect increasing volumes of data. With great power comes great responsibility. Regulatory regimes demand greater data security and integrity, and add complexity.

Booking.com More than a year after Covid washed over the software ecosystem and the tide ebbs, it’s revealing the impacts on fundamental metrics of public software companies. Sales efficiency is one of those key metrics. Covid altered the way salespeople

Booking.com Would you work for this person? It’s a simple question. It’s one I often ask in reference calls on founding teams. During one of those calls, when I should have been paying attention to the answer, I posed my

Booking.com Open source software marries the decentralized community of the Internet with the ambition to build great things. Databases, application servers, streaming technologies, application deployment, and container management – many modern tools were born open source. But the clouds are