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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Image Credits: Andriy Onufriyenko (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Green card sponsorships, startup prenups, agtech VC survey

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But there’s no way to know how well a founding team will get along by the time a company reaches maturity. Set aside the romantic notion that startup teams consist of visionary mavericks who are building the future in real time; they’re also human beings, with all of their flaws. Image Credits: Vori (opens in a new window).

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending.

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

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“I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different,” Tigner writes. I’m not great with heights, so I’ll look forward to watching their videos. We have three full-time contractors doing business development and sales in the U.S., Mainstream attention is increasing.

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Daily Crunch: Atlassian offers Jira Product Discovery in open beta release

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Look what’s in open beta : Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery, a tool for helping engineering and business teams prioritize and collaborate on new product ideas, is expected to be open to a general audience in the next three months, Frederic writes. Ivan has more. It also cuts 500 jobs and shutters its crypto unit. Bitcoin is back?

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Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing

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Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). ” Is it so bad to take money from Chinese venture funds?

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