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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). After all, once your company goes public, you’ll be expected to justify every dollar you spend. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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10 key lessons SaaStock18 attendees picked up

SaaStock

Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Work on developing your brand. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Full post. .

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.