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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. CEO and co-founder Puneet Gupta has shared his seven-step plan for developing usage-based pricing models. 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

In addition, CrowdStrike hired two independent software security vendors to review the Falcon sensor code, its quality control, and release processes, and also changed how its updates are released: more gradually, to increasing rings of deployment, says Adam Meyers, CrowdStrikes SVP for counter adversary operations. Trust, but verify.

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VCs who want better outcomes should use data to reduce founder team risk

TechCrunch

So why aren’t they doing that when evaluating startup teams? Sixty percent of startups fail because of problems with the team. Instinct matters, but a team is too big a risk to leave to intuition. I like to think I can sense when someone has that special something and when a team has chemistry. But I am human.

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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. Of course, in the world of security, “What could go wrong?” is never a rhetorical question.

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Zonos banks $69M to develop APIs for democratizing cross-border commerce

TechCrunch

Even if someone chooses not to purchase the item due to the fees being too high, MacLean believes the purchasing experience will be different because the pricing and shipping information was provided up front. Our diligence said Zonos is the only player to take the data that exists out there and make sense of it,” MacLean said.

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

TechCrunch

Play-to-earn games (P2E) are particularly susceptible to this problem, which is why “building a game that succeeds in the long term means developing monetization strategies that can weather market ebbs and flows,” says Corey Wilton, co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs, the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. Code, network and information security.