How come JetBrains didn't raise bazillion VC dollars, while their code completion and tools like refactoring are the best option for most popular programming languages?
They took more of the Atlassian path of no/low-VC and slower organic growth starting in the early 2000's, so they've had a lot of time to build the "snowball" effect.
I wonder what their look on say, IntelliJ, is.
Im not sure what advantage I'd get with kite.
Often I'd start using a class in the code, and then ask intelliJ to import it, rather than going to the top, and use the autocomplete tool. It can do patterns as well, even custom defined ones, with default values (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-live-templates.htm...)
Not everyone's goal is to build with investors' money. Sometimes it is easier to succeed without it.
It's not a question of 'easy or hard' it's a question of 'easier or harder'.
Being in Czech definitely makes it harder, hands down. Thankfully, they are in the EU, but it's still a completely different land that many VC's might not be remotely willing to touch. Consider that very few can even read the laws.
Czech startups would be limiting themselves to German and possibly Russian money in general, and it'd be harder to raise in the US.
JB is a great company that might be able to 'easily' raise money, but even then there could be 'red lines' for many firms that just make investing there impossible. For example, a firm may require they re-incorporate in London or Luxembourg or something, where there are far better established commercial laws.
Open Delaware C-corp and hire European programmers remotely. Either via consulting agreements or wholly-owned European subsidiary. Our company (tensorflight.com) did that.
After fundraising with both European and American VCs, indeed the VC market in the USA is much better.