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

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Until you’ve conducted extensive research on your users and competitors, there’s no way to know whether your services are priced improperly. .” 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

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Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. For example, are you using gender-coded or inclusive-coded language to attract inclusion-minded people? Remember, the best candidates have options.

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

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One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. There just wasn’t enough differentiation.”

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

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Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations. Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

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Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. No security team can be 100% certain that their defenses are bulletproof all the time–this is what adversaries take advantage of. Plants decoy credentials in Windows memory.

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The return of the lean, green startup

TechCrunch

D’Onofrio is seeing rounds taking longer, VCs asking more questions and the return of full due diligence (which, for anyone who has been reading this newsletter, is music to my paranoid ears). You’re raising money, but is it to hire, develop, acquire or just be able to exist?

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Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more

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Full articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. “Today, nobody except Chinese people outside of China uses Alipay or WeChat Pay to pay for anything,” says finance researcher Martin Chorzempa. Details here. Walter Thompson. ai IPO filing.