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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). In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO.