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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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

TechCrunch

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. Big Tech Inc.

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7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them

TechCrunch

You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. ” Hardware development is complex and challenging. Hardware development is inherently a lot more costly than cranking out software.

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

TechCrunch

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. Here are a few related articles we’ve run in recent weeks: Growth marketing. Sam Zivot, marketing manager, StickerYou. siewski, CEE mobile gaming lead, Google.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

TechCrunch

” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. In reality, changing course is usually the smartest bet, because it allows founding teams to leverage new technology and adapt to changing market conditions.