TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Now, bootstrapping founders can iterate without developers to keep costs down and extend their runway. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. This role is not merely about managing daily operations; it involves strategically aligning people to operational processes with the company’s long-term vision.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If I look at my portfolio, my companies that are active on Twitter actually do have an easier time raising money because investors feel like they know them.”. A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence. Development process. Engineering team contributions. monetization.”. Product roadmap.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Organizations are under pressure to demonstrate commitment to an actionable sustainability strategy to meet regulatory obligations and to build positive market sentiment. We examine the opportunity to lead both risk mitigation and value creation by helping advance the enterprise sustainability strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I have recently been a part of a few M&A processes at companies I work closely with. These transactions involved private companies selling to larger companies (public and private) and were all-cash transactions. This inspired me to chronicle best practices and considerations for founders who are selling their company.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

My such experience has inspired this article, 10 exceptional strategies for extraordinary executives. There are some amazing leadership development assessments to help you accomplish this goal. Be methodical, slow and purposeful when hiring your leadership team. Teams win because they have an internal communication strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. If you haven’t already spoken to scores of customers or created a contact spreadsheet with at least 25 investors who’ve backed companies like yours, it’s too soon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. When evaluating ‘AI for drug discovery companies,’ I view AI as a tool,” Shaq Vayda, principal at Lux Capital, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

However, this figure varies depending on industry and company size. IDCs June 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 6 , found that approximately 33% of organizations experienced system or data access disruption for one week or more due to ransomware. Download the AI Risk Management Enterprise Spotlight.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

This two-day bootcamp helps early-inning founders develop core entrepreneurial skills for startup success. How do they conduct IP due diligence? How do investors and founders, post-funding, ensure their start-ups pursue an IP strategy that optimizes exit valuation for all? Case in point. Brought to you by Perkins Coie.

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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We utilized whole-team simulations, classroom lectures and single-component training to increase system familiarity. Knowing the door type (a result of system familiarity) allowed us to optimize our decision-making time by spending more time and diligence on the one-way doors.” What is cognitive reflection?

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

The next generation of M&A strategy brings emerging digital capabilities to the forefront in support of both opportunities and risk mitigation. Deals are developing beyond core business growth, encompassing new digital opportunities and emerging technologies as drivers of strategic acceleration.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Cloud is scalable IT infrastructure that enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes, support business growth, and minimize disruptions,” says Swati Shah, SVP and CIO of US markets at TransUnion, the Chicago-based IT services and consulting company. “It They care about value.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. — including by a plan to double the size of its 65-strong team within the next two years. It is also planning to develop four new product categories, including integrating lifecycle assessments for plastics into the platform.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

While many private equity firms have managed to survive through the past several decades by deploying creative financial leveraging and reengineering techniques to offset inefficiencies in their portfolio companies, that approach will not be enough to sustain growth in the current marketplace.

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Datavail

AUGUST 4, 2021

Moving analytics to the cloud is now a best practice for companies of all sizes and industries. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner , Datavail has helped countless companies move their analytics tools to Amazon Web Services. More and more companies are running their business intelligence and analytics workloads in the cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Based in Warsaw, Poland, Intent assists a wide variety of companies with everything from product design and UX to development and deployment of connected devices. As a development shop, how involved do you get when helping clients validate ideas before they bring their apps to market?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies. Prior to working as a consultant with the company, Shan served as its head of digital innovation for over a decade.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This article was co-authored by Kira Kessel , Associate at Metis Strategy. You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. Ask the following of your company: Is learning tolerated?

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OTS Solutions

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

How to Implement a Multi-Cloud Strategy Implementing a multi-cloud strategy involves several crucial steps. Implementing proper data management and backup strategies is essential to ensure data availability and integrity across multiple clouds. It is essential to assess the specific needs and goals of the organization.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. It is also important to involve your key vendors in strategy and planning sessions related to their services or products,” Gilgour says.

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2022

Practices such as working from home and the rapid adoption of online services enabled technology companies to navigate the pandemic largely unscathed and created a wealth of opportunities for burgeoning startups. This is especially true for companies whose headquarters are not in or near a major digital hub.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

These reports can be presented to clinical trial teams, regulatory bodies, and safety monitoring committees, supporting informed decision-making processes. The LLM can also provide recommendations for further investigation, protocol modifications, or risk mitigation strategies based on the identified adverse event patterns.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Wealth tech companies brought in $1.7 Either way, let’s hope 2023 brings with it greater due diligence, less ego and more viable business models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

A standing-room-only crowd packed the venue as Dame spoke about her experience leading product and engineering efforts at Uber, Yahoo and Smugmug, sharing some of what she learned about gathering customer data, iterating quickly to validate ideas, and the challenges that come with scaling teams from a few dozen people to several thousand employees.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2024

Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Always the gatekeepers of much of the data necessary for ESG reporting, CIOs are finding that companies are even more dependent on them,” says Nancy Mentesana, ESG executive director at Labrador US, a global communications firm focused on corporate disclosure documents.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code. Even more cynically they ask whether the workers — or contractors — would answer all questions honestly, or would they be more likely to tell the UL team what they think they want to hear, so that they can get the most favorable rating?

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

No security team can be 100% certain that their defenses are bulletproof all the time–this is what adversaries take advantage of. A simple deception strategy can help detect adversary presence before an attacker establishes persistence or exfiltrates data. Deception changes the dynamics by injecting uncertainty into your environment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Every company must find its own voice, and as it grows and evolves, its marketing needs to evolve as well. A growth marketing agency based in Amsterdam, this company focuses on LinkedIn marketing, content marketing, marketing automation and email marketing. There is no authoritative playbook for marketing these days.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

I enjoyed the big marquee speakers from companies like Uber, but it was the individual breakout presentations where you really started to get into the meat of the conversation and see how these mobile partnerships come to life. Brought to you by Diligent Corporation. Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence. They understand the importance of developing their team’s skills and capabilities, nurturing a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

As the name suggests, Urban Innovation Fund invests in companies building technology to shape the future of cities, while VMG targets commerce. Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “We strongly believe in [being a] cross-industry [tool] — to make it easy for one single company to share their information to multiple actors, lowering their reporting fatigue that they have currently,” he confirms, noting: “We have multiple stakeholders — the buyers, the investors, the big corporations.”

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