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

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.” Until you’ve conducted extensive research on your users and competitors, there’s no way to know whether your services are priced improperly. “The principles are basic, but it’s easy for founding teams to miss details that matter,” he says. Formerly a general manager at AWS, Amberflo.io

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VCs who want better outcomes should use data to reduce founder team risk

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So why aren’t they doing that when evaluating startup teams? Sixty percent of startups fail because of problems with the team. Instinct matters, but a team is too big a risk to leave to intuition. I like to think I can sense when someone has that special something and when a team has chemistry. But I am human.

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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

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Analytics mastery: Use data efficiently Efficient analytics is a key driver for decision-making, and prioritizing the development of robust analytics capabilities to enhance consumers’ and financial institutions’ ability to make informed decisions and stay competitive is critical. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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‘Knowledge-as-a-service’ platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS

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The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, will have access to Lynk’s database of 840,000 experts around the world. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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Hebbia raises $30M to launch an AI-powered document search tool

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Hebbia , a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures. is TechCrunch’s parent company) and Raquel Urtasun, a former head of AI research at Uber. Of note, among the investors was Yahoo!

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4 perils of being an IT pioneer

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Proponents of early technology adoption further argue that it enables companies to build informal relationships with leading technology providers, develop deeper understanding of the latest technologies, and lure better talent. But there are also certain inherent risks associated with this. More so a solution based on a new technology.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

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No security team can be 100% certain that their defenses are bulletproof all the time–this is what adversaries take advantage of. By diligently implementing the following measures and best practices, organizations can greatly fortify the safeguarding of identities and bolster the efficacy of their MFA deployment.