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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500

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That’s code for “help me out over here” : Kyle reports that Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raised $100 million. On yer bike : Rebecca reports how Grubhub and Joco team up to give NYC delivery workers access to e-bikes. brands get into web3. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing

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Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). ” Is it so bad to take money from Chinese venture funds?

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MKT1: Developer marketing is what startup marketing should look like

TechCrunch

I had been the first, or first-ish, marketer at TicketFly and then at Asana — I was a marketer there and built up a team to about 25 people. I really love building teams, and I like them at scale too. They had stops and starts and had a large-scale organization, so I built that marketing team up — just much later [stage].

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Prerequisites for evolutionary architectures

CircleCI

In development. As software architects and developers we have control over some aspects of the environment we build and run software in. In order to evolve, our software needs to be easy and quick to release, and we need feedback about it’s appropriateness during development and while in production. In production.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

TechCrunch

However, a Kenyan B2B management startup founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele wants to close the gap on three of the six factors — access to capital, knowledge, and talent. ” So , how is the team at Pariti setting out to solve these problems? So basically anywhere that doesn’t have a mature, healthy startup ecosystem.”

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Developing Performance Measures

Strategy Driven

Productivity Increase : One great advantage of having performance measures is that it increases productivity in any given task or project, especially in a team. Determining Strength and Weaknesses : In an organization, setting up measures to track the performance of different tasks will help to determine which tasks employees are better at.