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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

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. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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

TechCrunch

“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

TechCrunch

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. How should SaaS companies deliver and price professional services? It feels like almost any company is a tech company in one way or another these days. The focus of diligence tends to be on aspects of a product that can be measured.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising beyond the Bay Area, web3 gaming, TDD prep checklist

TechCrunch

In a previous era, aspiring journalists relocated to New York, would-be actors made pilgrimages to Hollywood and plucky tech founders moved to the Bay Area so they could attract capital and talent. How to raise funds when you aren’t in the Bay Area. A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

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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CISOs Take Note — Don't Let AI Adoption Outpace Due Diligence

Palo Alto Networks

As we’ll see in the coming months, the rapid rate of tool development and adoption will (in some organizations) outpace due diligence, exposing them to unanticipated risks and unintended consequences. They don’t know where to get the data or how to interpret it. Of course, in the world of security, “What could go wrong?”

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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. 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.