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Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future

Crunchbase News

By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. During the frothy “ funding party ” in 2021, VCs began prioritizing speed and cutting corners, leading to compressed cycles and less robust vetting.

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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

CIO

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. But with all due respect, AI is hardly the only critical tech in town. IBM, for one, found that the average ROI on enterprise-wide AI initiatives at 5.9%

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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Code In Progress – The Life And Times Of Developers In 2021

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Is coding the only thing they do all day? And no, they do not code all day long. We wanted to bust a lot of these myths and shed light on how the programming world looks through a developer’s lens in 2021; especially in the wake of a global pandemic. When not coding, devs swear by their walks as a way to unwind.

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Open Source & Open Standards: Navigating the Intricacies of a Symbiotic Partnership

Speaker: Guy Martin, Executive Director of OASIS Open

The COVID-19 global pandemic has raised the already bright visibility of technology to an even higher level. Our worldwide society has continued to operate and thrive due to foundational technologies like the Internet. March 16, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code. Image Credits: AppMap.

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Code Review Services from Senior Architects

Mobilunity

This kind of code is critical for your end product, and it’s unattainable without professional source code review services. From this article, you’ll learn how to employ a code reviewer or hire QA tester. A code auditor can also help you identify security violations and errors in architecture design.