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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.

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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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7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence

TechCrunch

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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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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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

TechCrunch

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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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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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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