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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.” ” Until you’ve conducted extensive research on your users and competitors, there’s no way to know whether your services are priced improperly. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices.

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Revere is creating a ratings system for the venture capital industry

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The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Using data provided by an emerging venture firm, Revere uses 20 categories to verify, aggregate and research into the quality of the firm across 5 areas: sourcing, team, value add, track record and firm management.

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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring out a way to “jailbreak” Teslas, the AI.com domain name switching hands and the FCC fining robocallers. Now, on with the recap.

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Doosan announces $33.7M raise, as it introduces a robotic camera system at CES

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The company says the funding will be used to increase research and development and attract new partners as it looks to expand its global footprint. New Angle”) camera system. That arrives in part, due to things like object tracking, coupled with an open platform that allows users to program different shots.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

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The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. .

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

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The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government. When it comes to container-related technologies, only 30% are using OSS.

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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

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Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, but consumer data is still hard to find for many businesses, especially smaller ones. Populix wants to make research easier for companies, through a respondent app that now has 250,000 users in 300 Indonesian cities. The startup announced today it has raised $1.2

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