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TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

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“Contribution margin can then be reinvested in sales and marketing or operations to create more value.” “Knowing who is using what, when, where and how much will help you unlock valuable insights across all functional groups and teams, and make determining pricing much more straightforward,” says Gupta.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy? 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

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It’s Week in Review (WiR) , the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. Hijacked reviews: The U.S. Jagmeet writes that the new feature comes as Truecaller continues to see a lot of growth, but also some knocks in its strongest markets, such as India.

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Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Series B round

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TaniHub Group , an Indonesian startup that helps farmers get better prices and more customers for their crops, has raised a $65.5 TaniFund aims to further boost its credit scoring system with smarter data processing and better machine learning models.”. million Series B.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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investment giant Carlyle Group , French corporate and investment bank Natixis , Japanese multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine , and U.K.-based Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.

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Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

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Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities. By far the largest is Unstable Diffusion , whose operators are building a business around AI systems tailored to generate high-quality porn.

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