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Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open-source business management software developer, at a $2.3B+ valuation

TechCrunch

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3

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8 simple copywriting tips, backed by science

The Next Web

The Takipi post provided a good example of this from three similar articles on TechCrunch, where these two headlines were extremely popular: Oracle makes more moves to kill open source mySQL and Oracle is bleeding at the hands of DataBase rivals. Dee Leopold, Harvard Business School’s head of M.B.A.

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For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup

TechCrunch

Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. “Are you gonna hire a bunch of useless salespeople like they have at Oracle?” Eliot was the founder and CTO of MongoDB, and in late 2010, I was interviewing to come aboard as president.

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

TechCrunch

. “As machine learning models usage grows exponentially in production use cases, we see AI builders needing products and solutions to make AI systems more secure, while recognizing the unique needs and threats surrounding machine learning code,” Swanson told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

TechCrunch

In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO. What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment

TechCrunch

. “Trullion is and always has been an application layer software-as-a-service platform, leveraging open source AI libraries while building proprietary processing to unlock these accounting data sets and libraries,” Heller, Trullion’s CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. That’s up for debate.

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What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

NVIDIA AI Blog

Patrick Lewis “We definitely would have put more thought into the name had we known our work would become so widespread,” Lewis said in an interview from Singapore, where he was sharing his ideas with a regional conference of database developers. “We Retrieval-augmented generation combines LLMs with embedding models and vector databases.