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

TechCrunch

“Contribution margin can then be reinvested in sales and marketing or operations to create more value.” For years, conventional wisdom said it was a useless evolutionary holdover, but we’ve since learned that it helps strengthen the immune system. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. Here’s why.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. Indeed, it puts the EU in a precarious position as well, given that 72% of the European cloud market spend was aligned with AWS, Microsoft, and Google in Q2 2022. All these issues and many more are putting U.S.

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Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M

TechCrunch

Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. And a lot of people shifting jobs.

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

TechCrunch

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. Big Tech Inc.

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Digital addiction detox: Streamline tech to maximize impact, minimize risks

CIO

As Robert Blumofe, chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies, told The Wall Street Journal recently, “The goal is not to solve the business problem. These technologies often do not undergo a complete vetting process, are not inventoried, and stay under the radar. The goal is to adopt AI.”

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Due diligence is Ever More Critical as the Battle for Cloud Sovereignty Intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. Indeed, it puts the EU in a precarious position as well, given that 72% of the European cloud market spend was aligned with AWS, Microsoft, and Google in Q2 2022.