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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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As a result, technical debt starts to accumulate. If valuations go up astronomically, I remind myself that I have to deliver performance,” he says. “If billion during its $50 million November raise,” write Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm, who studied its S-1/A filing. And accumulate. founder Manu Bansal.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. Trouble with talent The State of the CIO Study found that staff and skills shortages was the No. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

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Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration” Attempt to make committees as large as possible — never less than five. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cash management basics, proptech investor survey, visa interview prep

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“Your cash reserves mean nothing if you aren’t able to access them in time to pay for your ongoing expenses,” writes Michael Dombrowski, corporate treasury adviser at Rho. Especially in the early days, non-technical founders are vulnerable when it comes to hiring technical employees. Case study slide.

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Injectsense collects $1.7M grant for its eye implant smaller than a grain of rice

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Based on animal studies and in-vitro data, Injectsense was awarded a two-year small business innovation research (SBIR) grant of $1.7 A study reviewed by TechCrunch suggested that the devices performed well, though the data hasn’t been peer reviewed. The battery, says Cao, can continue in this pattern for 80 years.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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