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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cannabis investor survey, product ops, recurring revenue financing

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Emily Paxhia joined Anna and me yesterday for a Twitter Space to discuss some of the survey’s topics in greater depth, describing cannabis as “today’s fastest-growing consumer packaged goods category.” Matt Hawkins, managing partner and co-founder, Entourage Effect Capital.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

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Moreover, personalization holds high appeal, with 80% of survey respondents indicating they are more likely to do business with a company if it offers personalized experiences and 90% indicating that they find personalization appealing, according to a survey by Epsilon.

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7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

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We’re widening our lens, looking for more — and more diverse — investors to include in TechCrunch surveys, where we poll top professionals about trends and challenges in their industry. If you’re an investor who’d like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. Which brings us to today — and tomorrow.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

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7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

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The forecast is based on a survey of IT professionals in the US and Europe, which was performed this summer by Aberdeen Research. Companies that did so in 2001 and 2008 were frequently punished for it by the market. Fully 90% of respondents said that they either planned to increase spending or keep it steady in 2023.

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

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We’re widening our lens, looking for more investors to participate in TechCrunch+ Surveys , where we poll top professionals about challenges in their industry. If you’re an investor and would like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. If you study previous compression periods in the ecosystem (e.g.,

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EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps

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In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that they’ve been held back by legacy database technologies — specifically relational databases systems. Relational databases weren’t designed with newer apps or the cloud in mind, the respondents said — making them sometimes difficult to adapt and work with.