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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. When communicating an ask of any leader—athlete, entertainer, or executive— keep it concise and actionable while expressing your gratitude for their time and support.

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Introducing Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘24 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

Luis Caballero and Sung Choi (Muse) Luis Caballero , born in Oklahoma City, acquired a diverse set of self-taught skills at an early age, including music production, website development, and social media growth. Driven to bridge the wealth divide, she founded WealthMore to make expert financial advisors affordable for all.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Her award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. GirlsClub helps women sales reps navigate the tricky path to sales leadership with their management training, mentoring, confidence building, and community.

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7 questions smart CTOs ask before choosing the best penetration testing company

Audacix

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams. No developer wants to create software with security holes.

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Leveling Up

Andreessen Horowitz

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] Dave: We expansively go beyond gaming and we think about the ultimate form of the way humans communicate at a distance. I think there are 3 categories.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Seeking financing from friends and family.

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How to Sell Subscriptions: 4 Strategies for SaaS Companies

Chargify

A great example of this strategy being done right is Dropbox’s freemium offering , which allows “users to see how easy it is to back up and share their files using the Dropbox platform,” says Sujan Patel, cofounder of Right Inbox. Communication is also critical aspect of the customer experience.