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

TechCrunch

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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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

TechCrunch

Others described a workplace with poor management and no structure and a company finding it hard to onboard merchants to its platform while running out of money simultaneously. This is a developing story… BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover siphoned off money, Indian startup says.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The articles should have been written on the topic of poor leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. A bad attitude isn’t something good leaders take lightly.

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

TechCrunch

“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.

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Sustainability data platform Worldfavor fuels up for ecosystem opportunities

TechCrunch

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Traditional security controls are bypassed in such attacks as bad actors assume a user’s identity and their malicious activity is indistinguishable from routine behavior.

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The Fallacy of No | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” The perception that strong leaders say no and weak leaders say yes is simply flawed thinking.