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

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“Knowing who is using what, when, where and how much will help you unlock valuable insights across all functional groups and teams, and make determining pricing much more straightforward,” says Gupta. 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence. Here’s why.

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TDD saved the day

Xebia

To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). As an aside, TDD is an iterative workflow that involves describing a specific aspect you want to solve in terms of the programming language you’re using. Truly, TDD saved the day! Clean up the code, and repeat.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy? 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

There are millions of details, flying all over the place, and you need to get some reliable form of communicating them, even for groups that are rather quiet. But since it is now a group effort, they tried to keep it time constrained by having everyone stand up during the meeting, in the hopes that people’s feet will tire out.

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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

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It’s Week in Review (WiR) , the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. Hijacked reviews: The U.S. Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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8 investors discuss what’s ahead for reproductive health startups in a post-Roe world

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Meanwhile, Hessie Jones , a partner at MATR Ventures, said the due diligence process needs to go deeper to identify the risks of developing new technology. Due diligence needs to expand past the point of founder ‘intentions.’ What is the impending risk to people or groups?”. Vote,” Lau said. Absolutely!

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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investment giant Carlyle Group , French corporate and investment bank Natixis , Japanese multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine , and U.K.-based Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.