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TechCrunch+ roundup: Deep due diligence, early Q1 2023 VC results, flight lessons for angels

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Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription Business schools teach the basics, but Mysty Rusk, who’s reviewed around 4,500 deals over the last 20 years, says the most important lessons she learned were the result of mistakes she made along the way.

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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

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A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe.

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Code In Progress – The Life And Times Of Developers In 2021

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Is coding the only thing they do all day? And no, they do not code all day long. We wanted to bust a lot of these myths and shed light on how the programming world looks through a developer’s lens in 2021; especially in the wake of a global pandemic. When not coding, devs swear by their walks as a way to unwind.

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

So here’s a run down of why you need data to set up a fair annual review process; if not this year, then you can kick-start it for 2021. That means that after you’ve set it up, it will be updated regularly on the engineer’s progress using indicators directly from the code repository. Use data to set next year’s goals.

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Open Source & Open Standards: Navigating the Intricacies of a Symbiotic Partnership

Speaker: Guy Martin, Executive Director of OASIS Open

Our worldwide society has continued to operate and thrive due to foundational technologies like the Internet. In the early days of technology, the building blocks of strong open standards combined with open source code that implemented these standards set the stage for breakthrough innovations. Live and On-Demand Masterclass.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future

Crunchbase News

By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. During the frothy “ funding party ” in 2021, VCs began prioritizing speed and cutting corners, leading to compressed cycles and less robust vetting.