From Extra Crunch
- Patreon, the focus of our first EC-1, has now announced the new pricing tiers that they telegraphed in our deep dive.
- New reports discuss the growing demand for foreign talent and consumer annoyance with media fragmentation (i.e. can’t everything just be on Netflix?)
- One of our Verified Expert lawyers, José Ancer, discusses why convertible notes are better than SAFEs, something of a counter-point to our piece last week on pre- and post-money SAFEs.
- Reminder: Brian Heater is hosting a conference call on robotics at 3pm EDT / 12pm PDT. Watch your inboxes for dial-in details.
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Stories from outside the 280/101 corridor
- Kickstarter could become the first major tech company with a unionized workforce. You can find their funding page on GoFundMe.
- Exascale supercomputers are coming, and no, they aren’t the new iMacs.
- A discussion on “undead texts” (scholarly books that have been superseded by new work but somehow continue to be widely read). Interesting discussion on why some books last much longer than others.
- Apple now has more Chinese suppliers for its iPhone than American + Japanese combined. No comment from Tim Apple or Donald Tariffs.
- Xiaomi’s profits are up as it finds huge growth in overseas markets (particularly India as well as in Western Europe).
- Deep dive on the errors lurking in and around electronic medical records and just how hard it is to get the technology right in medicine / health.
- Quantum-safe communication over the internet appears to be doable. Don’t get too entangled in your thoughts on this one.
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