TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to respond to these questions in such detail. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Jeff Wysocki, CIO at mining firm Mosaic Company, acknowledges those budget-busting concerns, but he says CIOs may be able to work with their public cloud provider to get those costs under control.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Businesses are exploring new ways to apply low-code data science to unlock insights on how to improve processes, says Matt Mead, CTO at tech modernization firm SPR. “AI

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image Credits: Konstantin Valiotti Freemium models allow you to target a wide audience and retain them in your product even if users do not have a budget for the solution. There will be an audience that loves your product and has the budget to pay, and they will do so unless a competing offer is more attractive to them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The budget you are willing to allocate. Consider your contract length How to cut your SaaS spending by 30% in 2023 by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch To help you on your way, put together a short list of tools and consider: The number of licenses the company requires. The level of support and maintenance needed.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

CIO’s cybersecurity budget allocations are too spread out across a myriad of single solutions. Cyber budgets get stretched too thinly across single solutions when they should match the organization’s IT and software spending priorities. the majority of its cybersecurity budget should go to protecting these investments.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

Launching several pilots in a short time not only can cost a lot of money but also often leads to a loss of employee productivity , as they struggle to learn how to use the new technology. The NTT survey aligns with a new survey commissioned by IBM , which found that 62% of companies are planning to increase their AI budgets in 2025.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

When and how to hire your startup’s first growth marketer. When I was working on fleet (or driver) acquisition at Postmates, we went from budgeting using simple methodology to measuring channel effectiveness on an LTV and retention basis. More posts by this contributor. Imagine being able to acquire users for just a few cents.

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Bilow recommends creating a small OCM budget for a current project and then hiring a boutique OCM consulting firm to manage the effort.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

However, it’s also been known to get out of hand, and with startups tightening their budgets, I believe we’ll start to see benefits changing drastically in the coming months. It’s a subject that comes up often at startups that want to ensure they have a competitive edge when it comes to hiring and retaining talent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

There’s a very limited supply of talent and probably the largest demand I’ve ever seen, so it’s really important for people to think about how to differentiate. Glen Evans. At Greylock, he leads a team that advises portfolio companies on recruiting and talent acquisition. It’s not rocket science.”.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Legal and Budget Complexities Create Bottlenecks The Challenge: Complex contract negotiations and rigid budget approvals can slow down procurement and lead to missed opportunities. See also: How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI. )

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

To manage their generative AI spend judiciously, organizations can use services like AWS Budgets to set tag-based budgets and alarms to monitor usage, and receive alerts for anomalies or predefined thresholds. This tagging structure categorizes costs and allows assessment of usage against budgets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

If you’re an early-stage investor who’d like to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. We look for founders to demonstrate how to apply the right techniques, with the right data, to the right problem. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to respond!

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

But no matter how important AI may or may not be to a company, there’s no point in wasting money. Gen AI offers many opportunities to spend too much and get too little in return when, instead, companies can use their gen AI budgets more strategically, allowing them to reap more benefits from investments and pull ahead of their competitors.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

In contrast, traditional organisations use a project-based approach to delivery, with temporary teams created on an as-needed basis for a specific purpose with budgets based on up-front funding estimates. If the scope is clear and easy to define up-front, it’s a great way to keep everyone on track and ensure teams are delivering to budget.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

Historically thats not how technology training has been approached, he adds. In the past, IT would arrange for training sessions, where workers learned how to use new systems. The historical role of IT leaders is to ask, What does the business want and how can I help them. And that helps build more impactful teams, Brown says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Someone smart, savvy and super scrappy who understands how to experiment across marketing channels until they find the right mix. How competitive is the market? How competitive is the category you’re playing in? Do these brands have endless marketing budgets? How important is trust building? product marketing).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

You need newsworthy content or an expert opinion to contribute, and you need to know how to pitch it to writers. Small budget options. Larger budget options. Image Credits: Fractl. Image Credits: Fractl. Of course, getting media coverage isn’t easy. Are there industry blogs you can write a guest post for?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

The economy was in free fall, companies were slashing workforces nationwide and all budgets were frozen. After working on the first Obama presidential campaign from 2006-2008, I had a fresh perspective on how to sell. Against all odds, I ended up doing well. One that works regardless of whether we’re in a bear or bull market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“As startups grow, so do their marketing budgets and the rigor of testing required,” he writes. How should we think about runway and capital preservation? “All that begs for more defined team structures.”

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Attendees were surprised they shared the same struggles: software projects running over budget, missing deadlines, or failing to meet expectations. Yet, we continue to see projects fail with similar char acteristics: budget overruns and missed deadlines while failin g to meet expe ctations. In 1972, Edsger W.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

How to Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Your Time with Bad Delegation There are steps you can take to help align expectations, lower your frustration, and help your boss stop wasting your time with bad delegation. If they clarify that they need to see it in order to know for sure, now you know how to proceed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

But there is a big difference between knowing that you need efficient revenue and knowing how to get it. Leaner teams, fewer resources, and a tough macro environment mean that CROs are forced to make big changes to budgets, staffing and how they market and sell. What every company needs now is efficient sales.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Higher budgets also enable entry to several markets nearly simultaneously. Europe is home 49 of the surveyed companies, six are based in the U.S., and three in Asia. Going international later in the journey or when more funding is available, possibly due to a VC round, seems to make facets of expansion more feasible.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

Our take: CIOs must focus on smart spending rather than indiscriminate budget slashing. See also: 10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid.) See also: CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025.) CIOs must balance cost cutting with strategic investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

This creates organizational flexibility and agility, addresses growing IT backlogs and budgets, and helps fill the IT gap caused by a shortage of skilled developers. Anyone can now create and modify their own tools without complex coding skills using no-code’s easy-to-use visual interfaces and drag-and-drop functionality.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

They have a basic accounting system, know how to construct a budget and have policies and procedures for accounts receivable and accounts payable.

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