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

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“Knowing who is using what, when, where and how much will help you unlock valuable insights across all functional groups and teams, and make determining pricing much more straightforward,” says Gupta. 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence. Here’s why.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy? 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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SAP systems increasingly targeted by cyber attackers

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A review of four years of threat intelligence data, presented Friday at Black Hat by Yvan Genuer , a senior security researcher at Onapsis, reports a spike in hacker interest in breaking into enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from SAP in 2020 that was sustained until the end of 2023.

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DEI MIA in new Meta AI advisory group

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The creation of a new group to advise on AI and technology product strategy by Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been criticized by an executive member of the Responsible AI Institute (RAI) for what on the surface appears to be an acute lack of diversity. “It

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How Modern Farming (Group) Co., Ltd is revolutionizing dairy farming

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Established in 2005, Modern Farming (Group) Co., Until recently, many acquired groups operated with rudimentary management systems. Modern Farming (Group) Co., The use of multiple financial systems, often requiring manual processing, further exacerbated these issues by introducing repetitive data entry tasks.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged. Microsoft said around 8.5

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Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital

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To create a pathway for market success, startups need two essential assets groups: venture capital and creative capital. Venture capital usually arrives after rigorous assessments and due diligence cycles are completed. Branding, naming and communication systems. However, what about the 10% that succeed?