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

TechCrunch

Drawing from his experience of leading startups through the dot.com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. CEO and co-founder Puneet Gupta has shared his seven-step plan for developing usage-based pricing models. When it’s OK to leave money on the table.

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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments. Startups pitching on the main stage. Mar received her Ph.D.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

It’s universally accepted that to thrive, enterprises must embrace transformation through technology. The challenge of digital transformation projects lies not so much in the technological implementation, but in the operational change required of people and the entire business organization,” he says.

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Why, though? A cat ahead of its time

The Hustle

In 2000, Digital Convergence’s CueCat — a plastic device that looked like a cat — did something similar. Digital Convergence made its money via technology licensing deals with media and advertising clients, not from selling CueCats, which it gave away for free. Tech partners failed to provide useful or specific URLs.

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Lab-grown meat to save the eels — and your sushi

The Hustle

Cell-cultivated chicken, eggs, and beef might be old news, but the cutting-edge food tech has found another animal to dupe: eel. And that’s a very good thing, considering some eel species have become endangered due to overfishing and pollution. The company is the first to use organoids (i.e.,

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Daily Crunch: Upskilling edtech platform GOMYCODE closes $8M Series A

TechCrunch

Content creator : We loved Tage ’s report on Tunisian edtech company GOMYCODE, which took in $8 million to school children on software engineering and tech skills. we like Ingrid ’s inclusion of company president Brandon Tseng’s ranking of the United States’ aerospace development compared to China’s. Big Tech Inc.