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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. A quick primer on TDD.

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

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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. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.

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

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However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. Do you expect to see more down rounds in 2023? Would you say you are conducting more due diligence? How many will not manage the task in 2023?

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black.

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ChatGPT for Developers: Key Use Cases in Software Development

Apiumhub

ChatGPT is a trendy topic in all industries, but today let’s discuss the top use cases of this AI tool for developers. Key ChatGPT facts and statistics Launch Date: November 30, 2022 Number of Users: 100 million active users in January 2023 and 173 million users in April 2023 60 million visits per day 1.8

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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Daily Crunch: Kurtosis raises $20M Series A to give web3 developers ‘a place to play around’

TechCrunch

Tooling around : Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports. Diving into due diligence. See you tomorrow! The TechCrunch Top 3.