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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). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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How Technology Affects Communication

Neil Patel

For better or worse, technology affects communication because it is a part of our everyday lives. It impacts the way we work, entertain ourselves, and stay in touch. You might see the average elementary-aged child with their head buried in a smartphone and tempted to take a gloomy outlook on what technology has done to us.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift. A bundle of technologies are going to make a whole bunch of new things possible that lots of people are going to be building things on top of. Entertainment is this $2T a year industry.

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Learning How to Adapt in the Sales Community with Celine North

Sales Hacker

Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. How did Celine transition from a sales agency world to technology and SaaS [09:18]. And now she’s doing an incredible job leading a team of 13 people at Boardable. Take advantage of the Pavilion for Teams corporate membership.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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How to Run a Virtual Job Fair to Attract Top Marketing Talent

Neil Patel

Popular features include: flexible platform allows you to tailor your event to your needs affordable, straight-up pricing that enables you to keep your costs down advanced technology tool kit great customer support to help make sure your event is a success. Put a team together that shows off the best aspects of your business.