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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget

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Last month at TechCrunch Early Stage, Glen Evans, a partner on Greylock’s core talent team, joined me to talk about how founders can optimize the recruiting and hiring process , source talent, and uncover some best practices for closing candidates. Hiring top startup talent on a budget during the Great Resignation. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

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TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. I spoke with founder Mulenga Agley about how their team assesses new clients and common marketing mistakes related to conversion optimization rates.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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We put dollars in and got services out, but couldn’t say to the board, with confidence, that we were really in control of things like compliance, security, and due diligence.” With the cloud, if we wanted to do additional work or give development teams a sandpit to play in, we had to pay for the additional load.

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

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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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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team.