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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. A quick primer on TDD.

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

Crunchbase News

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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Lessons from the field: How Generative AI is shaping software development in 2023

CIO

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. It helps increase developer productivity and efficiency by helping developers shortcut building code.

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Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment

Martin Fowler

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. Write the functional code until the test passes. Write the functional code until the test passes. Refactor both new and old code to make it well structured.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?”

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Proptech in Review: Investors predict slower growth in 2023

TechCrunch

What is your investment thesis for proptech in 2023? I think part of what made it worse is the double whammy of general inflated multiples in tech/software, coupled with the fact that many proptech companies have a physical component that shouldn’t have allowed them to be valued like a software company to begin with.

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Daily Crunch: What’s around the corner for the EV market in 2023?

TechCrunch

2023 will be the year electric vehicles really start to take shape : “Driven by policy initiatives from governments and billions of dollars in investment from automakers, we can safely say the EV industry has begun to take shape,” Rebecca writes. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Neither Christine nor Haje.