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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

TechCrunch

.” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The composition of the board can also impact your fundraising.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

TechCrunch

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 “We have a mix of customers spanning corporate buyers, traders and exchanges,” it adds.

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Vue Storefront snaps up $20M to grow its open source based ‘frontend-as-a-service’ e-commerce toolkit and platform

TechCrunch

But a startup out of Poland with a platform for front-end developers to build composable e-commerce sites has just raised $20 million on the back of strong interest in the market. Julien Codorniou, an ex-Facebook exec who is now a partner at Felix, is also joining the board.

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Build.security raises $6M for its authorization policy management platform

TechCrunch

Build.security, a Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup that aims to make it easier for developers to bake authorization policy management right into their applications, today announced a $6 million seed funding round led by cybersecurity-centric firm YL Ventures. Image Credits: build.security. It’s not an easy task.”

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth.

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