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Extra Crunch roundup: Corp dev handbook, Chicago startups, Brazil’s e-commerce landscape

TechCrunch

TechCrunch noted last year that in the decade leading up to 2020, just two of the 56 IPOs in Brazil were technology companies. More recently, the number of technology companies listed in the country has swelled to at least 16, up from just four in 2019.”. “The IPO market in Brazil is changing,” they write.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata

TechCrunch

“Founders need someone who gets the big picture, understands the business domain, loves the technology, and, crucially, asks a lot of questions,” says Andy Stinnes, general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners. 3 factors to consider when building an early-stage cloud sales team.

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4 employment law mistakes startups can stop making today

TechCrunch

Kristen Corpion is the founder of CORPlaw , a Miami-based law firm serving fast-growing technology companies and entrepreneurs as fractional general counsel. A poorly written employee handbook is often worse than no handbook at all. Kristen Corpion. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechEmpower CTO

Exploring new technologies? Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. This is especially true when a founder has a strong vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to make it a reality. What does the role demand?

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Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: Defensive Security Handbook – Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “Defensive Security Handbook – Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure” (2017), by Lee Brotherston and Amanda Berlin. Despite the accelerating changes in security philosophies and technologies, this book will be a mainstay for security defenders for years to come. Please do so!

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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

CIO

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. We’ve also published, in partnership with the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), the 2023 Director’s Handbook on Cyber-Risk Oversight.

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A Brief History of DevOps and the Link to Cloud Development Environments

DevOps.com

Yet for practitioners like myself, a more hands-on account is “The DevOps Handbook” (by the same author, Gene Kim, and others), which recounts some of the watershed moments around […]

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