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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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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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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. Image Credits: Anna Minkina (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Big Tech Inc.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more

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Image Credits: slowcentury (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: ra2studio (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Raquel Segato/EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: rubberball (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. The Klaviyo EC-1. Scale quicker. Scale cheaper.

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Win $100,000: Apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021

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Diligent in its care and feeding so that, one day soon, it will grow into the mighty unicorn you envision. The window for tossing your hat into the ring is shrinking rapidly. Don’t wait — apply to compete in Startup Battlefield before the window slams shut on May 27 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). But here’s the thing.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth budgets, hiring tips, zero-party data Twitter Space

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Early-stage startup marketers must walk a fine line: Everyone is free to chime in on their work, and campaign budgets for pre-revenue companies are notoriously thin. The detailed suggestions we received included budget breakdowns, tips for developing minimum viable brand designs and advice on how to measure success.

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Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more

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Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). After reviewing Affirm’s profitability, revenue and the impact of COVID-19 on its bottom line, he asked (and answered) three questions: What does Affirm’s loss rate on consumer loans look like? Walter Thompson.