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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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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets

TechCrunch

Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. ” So what, exactly, does Edda give those working in the private investment space?

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

TechCrunch

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. ” It doesn’t end there.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zero-day exploits, breaking into Japan, algorithmic VC investing

TechCrunch

We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan.

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Stitch raises $21M for its API infrastructure and embedded finance platform

TechCrunch

In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. The first is what it launched from stealth: the pure infrastructural play of connecting financial and bank accounts with an API.

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The return of the lean, green startup

TechCrunch

The market is down. As tech stocks take a hit, the big question on my mind is how a dip in market performance impacts early-stage startups. D’Onofrio is seeing rounds taking longer, VCs asking more questions and the return of full due diligence (which, for anyone who has been reading this newsletter, is music to my paranoid ears).

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How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm

TechCrunch

We already have a senior team of venture partners who help us in origination and diligence. That said, a generous carry percentage is irrelevant if the fund’s metrics for the other components of the formula above are low. Another option is our becoming a formal scout for other VCs through programs like those we list below.