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TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

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Drawing from his experience of leading startups through the dot.com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. For years, conventional wisdom said it was a useless evolutionary holdover, but we’ve since learned that it helps strengthen the immune system.

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IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

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For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems. They counted any service degradation or unavailability of critical business systems due to cyberattacks as well as technical and operational failures as downtime.

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IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

CIO

For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems. They counted any service degradation or unavailability of critical business systems due to cyberattacks as well as technical and operational failures as downtime.

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6 insights every CIO should take away from the CrowdStrike debacle

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In early 2000, following IT’s unprecedentedly effective response to the Y2K situation, the world botched its after-action review. Which is the more likely cause of systems failure in a Windows 3.1-based It’s another way this is a systemic problem.

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Circuit Breaker Pattern with Retry in Test Automation

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You need to avoid overloading systems with too many retries while ensuring your tests remain reliable. Opening the Circuit: Stopping further retries after reaching a specified number of failures to avoid putting extra strain on the system. This prevents adding extra stress to an already overloaded system.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

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The company has been a public utility since 2000, with the City of Rome as its sole shareholder. Finally, the flow of AMA reports and activities generates a lot of data for the SAP system, and to be more effective, we’ll start managing it with data and business intelligence.” million tons of waste annually.

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Daily Crunch: Upskilling edtech platform GOMYCODE closes $8M Series A

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Shield AI, which makes military autonomous flying systems, raised $165 million at a $2.3 We don’t want to be insensitive about layoffs, but Haje does encourage would-be employees to do their due diligence before joining a startup : They are more risky than you might think, especially when the economy does a little curtsy of despair.