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Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future

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By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.

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Best Practices for Code Review — Quick Reference

Dzone - DevOps

Code review is a popular and one of the most critical software development processes used to improve code quality, consistency, share knowledge, and much more. Code review can have an important function of teaching developers something new about a language, a framework, or general software design principles.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration” Attempt to make committees as large as possible — never less than five. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization. Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. 4 practical steps for using no-code to evolve your prototype to an MVP Image Credits: Luis Cagiao Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Forget about dogs: No-code development tools can be a non-technical founder’s best friend.

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HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks

TechCrunch

HiPeople , a HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. HiPeople says the investment will be used to support growth so that more recruiters can hire remotely using automated reference checks. It follows a $1.1 million pre-seed in late 2019. In the U.S.,