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7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence

TechCrunch

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. But when it comes to assessing investment opportunities, few venture and growth equity investors have the resources to conduct thorough technical diligence. The focus of diligence tends to be on aspects of a product that can be measured.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements. “biased” or “lagging indicator”).

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Attention metrics, growth through retention, cold-calling advice

TechCrunch

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. “Once you get investors, the story doesn’t matter; it’s all about the metrics, the numbers and the performance,” Bamberger said. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., million seed round a year later.

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When is data too clean to be useful for enterprise AI?

CIO

For many organizations, preparing their data for AI is the first time they’ve looked at data in a cross-cutting way that shows the discrepancies between systems, says Eren Yahav, co-founder and CTO of AI coding assistant Tabnine. That requires curation and cleaning for hygiene and consistency, and it also requires a feedback loop.”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Minimizing M&A mayhem, cybersecurity PM checklist, open source AI

TechCrunch

“Some are hiring talent to jump headfirst, others are happy to back the ‘ChatGPT for X’ spin-outs, and many are sitting in awe, watching their existing investments spark an AI debate of their own, no due diligence needed,” she wrote. It is essential to approach the decision and process with diligence and forethought.”

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Build generative AI applications quickly with Amazon Bedrock IDE in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

AWS Machine Learning - AI

They have structured data such as sales transactions and revenue metrics stored in databases, alongside unstructured data such as customer reviews and marketing reports collected from various channels. Your tasks include analyzing metrics, providing sales insights, and answering data questions.