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Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors

TechCrunch

Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How good is the founder-market fit? Is it venture-scale? It’s natural for founders to live and breathe for their customers and product, but the dirty little secret of fundraising is that your investors are extraordinarily unlikely to care about your product.

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Purpose, Preparation, and Play

CEO Insider

Organizational teams of any kind would be wise to heed the best practices of CEO peer advisory groups/forums. Watching the best of the best is like being treated to an evening at the Boston Symphony or a highlight reel featuring top plays on any given Sunday in the NFL. Among everything that must go well […]. The post Purpose, Preparation, and Play appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Adobe buys Figma, Uber gets hacked, and Google shrinks Area 120

TechCrunch

Hello, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we quickly sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the last sevenish days. The goal? Even if you’ve had a busy week, a quick skim of WiR should keep you in the (tech) loop. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week was a bit all over the place, with another big story breaking every couple hours.

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Management and Systems Thinking

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

“Until managers take into account the systemic nature of their organizations, most of their efforts to improve their performance are doomed to failure.” Dr. Russell Ackoff (thanks to Susanne Kaiser for the reference). I came across this Twitter thread from Rein Henrichs , and I thought it had many good points about systems thinking and management.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Varo’s bank charter milestone, more corporate cards and BNPL under a microscope

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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No money for shelfware

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Too many subscriptions? Many of us are feeling this way, and so are companies: In a downturn, cutting unnecessary expenses is more important than ever.

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Donald Knuth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Donald brought a transition in the field of computers. He was the first to create the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems. He is rightly known as the Father of Analysis of Algorithms. An American mathematician, Donald Ervin Knuth is a Computer Scientist and a Professor at Stanford University. He is known for his book The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, MMIX, LR Parser, Literate Programming, and many more.