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Data wants to disrupt your deal flow (again)

TechCrunch

As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. Traditional investment that prioritizes pedigree and culture, or the “art” of a founder, has left out an entire class of historically overlooked individuals.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 R&D tax prep, social media for founders, managing remote teams

TechCrunch

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator. But is it the right choice for every founder? 6 reasons why you shouldn’t join an accelerator. These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media.

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TechCrunch Live is going to Boston, and you’re invited!

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TechCrunch Live is thrilled to be hosting an event featuring Boston-local investors and founders. Investors will speak on the best way to raise capital from local firms, and they’ll talk about what sort of startups are most likely to get funding. Click here for the Startup Battlefield application.

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Sandfly Security

NZ Entrepreneur

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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Formwork Labs aims to build ‘the YC of construction tech’

TechCrunch

Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. Our goal with Formwork Labs is to help the best and brightest construction tech founders get started on the right foot, set up for success and in front of the right investors, partners and early customers.”. “Our

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With Benioff backing, Sustainable Ocean Alliance aims to be the rising tide that lifts all ‘ecopreneurs’

TechCrunch

Now empowered by $15 million in new funding , the nonprofit hopes to expand its scope and more tangibly support the class of climate-motivated founders they call “ecopreneurs.” Upon joining the program, startups receive investment from SOA and access to support for the lifetime of their ocean startup.”

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The latecomer advantage in startups

TechCrunch

Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As always, you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram.

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