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3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022

TechCrunch

A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. This compressed diligence cycles, leading to less intrusive vetting. The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence.

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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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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. Reducing waste is key to meeting environmental milestones, and some retail firms have narrowed in on a unique approach to minimize what their customers throw away: personalization. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology.

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Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings

TechCrunch

Generative AI is the tech industry’s buzzword of the moment. Supernormal hopes to demonstrate the value of generative AI with its tech, which creates meeting notes by integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other conferencing platforms. On the other hand, generative AI has proven to be a labor savor.

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3 talent strategies to help tackle technical debt

CIO

Technical debt is a growing problem that businesses can’t ignore. These technical challenges can significantly impact the performance and stability of critical operations and must be addressed as a priority. Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. What it does: White hats automating code reviews. Stage: Seed round.

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Burned by layoffs, tech workers are rethinking risk

TechCrunch

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do , top MBA programs want laid off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements , and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it.