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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. We’re continuing to innovate. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. In fact, one of our decisions in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem

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