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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

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Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. We’ve looked at the contributions of over 200,000 developers who have collectively written 4 billion lines of code.

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

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“The principles are basic, but it’s easy for founding teams to miss details that matter,” he says. How to talk to your investors about pivoting. CEO and co-founder Puneet Gupta has shared his seven-step plan for developing usage-based pricing models. Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence

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But when it comes to assessing investment opportunities, few venture and growth equity investors have the resources to conduct thorough technical diligence. They often outsource this critical work to a consultant for more of a high-level overview, because technical diligence is often a blind spot for investors.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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Customers also got additional controls over how updates are deployed. But while CrowdStrike made changes, companies around the world re-evaluated how much trust they placed in their vendors, reviewed their software security processes, and refocused their attention on resilience. Trust, but verify.

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

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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. And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black.

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Startup Speed Is Sine Qua Non For Startup Success. Here’s How To Achieve It.

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Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Decision speed: How often are quick decisions preferred over gathering additional data? Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out?

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

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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. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.