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

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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: Game developer bans 6,700 cheaters and publishes their usernames

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Let’s kick this off by reminding you there’s only 5 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes ! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 No one likes a cheater : Definitely not Russian game developer Battlestate Games, which banned and doxed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo has more. Ingrid writes that U.K.-based

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Green card sponsorships, startup prenups, agtech VC survey

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But there’s no way to know how well a founding team will get along by the time a company reaches maturity. Set aside the romantic notion that startup teams consist of visionary mavericks who are building the future in real time; they’re also human beings, with all of their flaws. Image Credits: Vori (opens in a new window).

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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

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“It’s closed dozens of partnerships and business development deals, and with some of the biggest names in tech. Image Credits: Reinhard Krull / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: VCG (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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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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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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Enveil, a provider of encrypted, privacy-focused search and analytics tools, raises $25M

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Image Credits: Enveil (opens in a new window). This leaves a bit opportunity for building out new kinds of approaches that essentially let organizations take an approach where security remains intact regardless, although it will likely be years before we can develop infrastructure that can bypass bad judgment.

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