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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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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. We’ve looked at the contributions of over 200,000 developers who have collectively written 4 billion lines of code.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

The company released a fix 78 minutes later, but making it required users to manually access the affected devices, reboot in safe mode, and delete a bad file. It can take time to test each update to make sure it works before rolling it out time bad actors can take advantage of. An automated fix wasnt released until three days later.

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IT pros: One-third of AI projects just for show

CIO

Their teams miss out on crucial learning experiences, leaving them ill-equipped to handle genuine AI deployments down the road.” Nagaswamy has witnessed several organizations launching AI projects simply to impress board members or investors. This trend is concerning,” he says. “AI

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

TechCrunch

He says while looking into international commerce, he found people wound up being charged additional fees after they have already purchased the item, leading to bad customer experiences, especially when a merchant is trying to build brand loyalty. There may be a small decrease, but a longer lifetime value with customers.

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Startup Speed Is Sine Qua Non For Startup Success. Here’s How To Achieve It.

Crunchbase News

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out? Communication flow: How fast do important developments/results travel throughout the entire organization?

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With a fresh $46M, Instabug aims to do more than fix your app’s bugs

TechCrunch

Instabug , a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. For example, so they can see if an issue is happening, and understand what’s going on before a user is giving bad reviews or ranting on Twitter.” .