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Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future

Crunchbase News

By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Before starting Astro, they worked at the same company — OwnLocal — where they found it was tough to compete against top tech firms for talent. based tech companies. Samira and Astro’s second co-founder, Frank Licea, founded Astro after experiencing the effects of the developer shortage firsthand.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

TechCrunch

Census survey reporting that they’ve experienced delays with domestic suppliers. According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. .”

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO

It also commonly refers to the set of initiatives companies undertake to foster that connection among their employees. According to that survey, to get recognition right, start with the question: How do your employees like to be recognized? “We We do incident reviews when there’s a failure or a mistake. These are their tips.

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Is fintech’s Series A market hot, or just overhyped?

TechCrunch

In early October 2020, the Financial Venture Studio put together a brief survey of the Series A market in fintech and shared it with more than 100 investors with whom we work closely. As investors have gotten more comfortable with the new normal, they have been more open to a virtual diligence process.

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Data-Driven Recruiting: All You Need To Know

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Why is data important in tech recruiting? When you hire in large numbers – say thousands of tech hires in a year; you want to be as efficient as possible. TTH (Time To Hire) is a metric every recruiter is familiar with. We know that tech recruiting is a multi-dimensional process. Let’s break this down logically.

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HyperTrack, which provides last-mile routing software, raises $25M

TechCrunch

In a sign that the market for logistics and transportation tech isn’t cooling (economic downturn be damned), HyperTrack , a startup offering APIs for freight order planning, assignment and tracking, today closed a $25 million Series A funding round. food and goods delivery services) for location and mapping tech.