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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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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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Tomago Aluminium is an industry giant in the Asia-Pacific region, and as IT superintendent, Dennis Moncrieff is responsible for leveraging the right technologies to make the process of producing aluminum more efficient. Budgeting, CIO, Cloud Management, Data Architecture, Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Leadership

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

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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.

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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. Just as a balanced diet fortifies the body, a robust and modern IT infrastructure lays the groundwork for AI and other advanced technologies to flourish.”

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YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes

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Atmos , a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 It then teams up buyers with a “vetted builder partner.” . million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.