Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

consumer education back to school 2020 guest hostsMonopoly, oligopoly, cartel.

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Net-Results

MAY 22, 2019

Depending on the size and budget of the educational institution, any marketing automation platform that would normally fit an equally sized business will fit the bill. As far as I know, there are no marketing automation platforms specifically geared towards the educational vertical – nor is that really necessary to be successful with software like this in education. The post What marketing automation tools work best for higher education?

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Nimble - Sales

AUGUST 6, 2020

In such a well-connected world, tech-savvy customers are not dependent on businesses to educate them. The post How to Educate Your Customers to Drive Sales appeared first on Nimble Blog. The world has become a small place, thanks to the proliferation of the internet and smartphones.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Continuing our series on what’s next for education startups, in this a16z hallway conversation general partner Connie Chan talks with deal and research team operating partner Frank Chen about apps and services she’s seen in China that might inspire entrepreneurs … China marketplaces mobile education hallway conversations tech is global

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Advertiser: Data Robot

Across all sectors, companies are learning that they can transform their businesses by embracing Intelligent Process Automation, or IPA. With the pairing of AI and RPA, IPA adds a new layer of intelligent decision-making processes to automated RPA tasks. By automating repetitive work, and adding the ability to automate intelligent decision making, intelligent automation frees up your most valuable resources – your employees – to spend more time on higher value and more strategic work. But in order to reap the rewards of Intelligent Process Automation, organizations must first educate themselves and prepare for the adoption of IPA. In our ebook, Intelligent Process Automation: Boosting Bots with AI and Machine Learning.

Machine Learning

SaaS Metrics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Children’s tablets are not only a random journey to the supermarket. The specifications, reliability, guarantee, and accessibility of the family control system must be carefully considered.

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Predictable Revenue

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The post The art of selling services: How Go Nimbly’s Troy Conquer listens, educates, and executes revenue operations consulting appeared first on Predictable Revenue. We'll take an in-depth look at how to scale a sales team and effectively nail each stage of sales growth.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Rachel Carlson , Co-Founder and CEO @ Guild Education, the leader in education benefits offering the single most scalable solution for preparing the workforce of today for the jobs of tomorrow. The post SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with SocialChorus, Trello, Gremlin, Terminal, Guild Education, Gitlab, and Pleo — November 15, 2019 appeared first on SaaStr.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 12, 2019

When people talk about trends in education technology, they often focus on how to disrupt higher education in the U.S., whether it’s about breaking free of the “signaling” factor of elite educations or how to shift education out of its … China design mobile

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Earlier this week we hosted a well-attended webinar on – Customer Education: The Secret to Scale in Customer Success. . In this webinar we learned how to scale your Customer Success efforts and sustain Customer Lifetime Value while increasing brand value and decreasing Support costs through Customer Education. . Topics discussed included: How Customer Education scales a Customer Success team. Which components to include in your Customer Education program.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As buyer expectations continue to heighten, marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies, and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The way schools teach and students learn has not changed much since the broad introduction of formal schooling in the late 1800s, despite the fact that most developed countries spend around 5-6% of their GDP on education. education

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2012

When going to market, startups tend to pursue one of two sales strategies, either education sales or execution sales.These sales strategies are substantially different. The Education Sale. If your customers don’t know they need your product yet, then the sales process is an education sale. Education sales are common when creating a new market (TiVo inventing the DVR) or when bringing existing technologies to new market segments (CRM for restaurants).

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Inside Intercom

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In this video, we chat about how our Sales team’s usage of educational video has helped shape the content itself into a more dynamic feature-specific format, increasing customer engagement (by ~84%) and reducing our cost to sale (~13% decrease in the sales cycle). The post How our sales team helped reboot our educational videos appeared first on Inside Intercom. video at Intercom.

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Inturact

AUGUST 14, 2018

Somewhere along the line, we lost the idea to “Give the people what they want!” As marketers and as startup founders, that idea has always been our guiding star. But along the way, that simple message tends to get diluted, becoming “Give the people what we think they want,” or even worse, “Give the people what will make us the most money.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

consumer education networking online communities UncategorizedThe rate of technological change over the last decade has been astounding. We’ve not only seen new companies and industries established, but also entirely new jobs and skills.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ariel Diaz wrote an insightful post in PandoDaily yesterday outlining the state of affairs in online education. Ariel touched on the history of education, catalogued the problems of the status quo and pointed to a few innovative initiatives. The major for-profit education companies, Capella and Phoenix, serve university students. 2Tor/2U brings online education to offline colleges.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 17, 2020

consumer education online communities coronavirus ed tech online learningThis week, students in much of the country are returning to school—virtually.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

consumer ecommerce education fintech gaming, social, and new media innovation clusters online communities Uncategorized social strikes backSocial Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they’re shaping the future of consumer tech.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

China consumer ecommerce education gaming, social, and new media mobile (& messaging) online communities Uncategorized social strikes backSocial Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they’re shaping the future of consumer tech.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 18, 2020

APIs education enterprise & SaaS fintech gaming, social, and new media mobile (& messaging) news online communities open source policy & regulation Uncategorized end of year roundups trends 2020

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 18, 2020

China consumer ecommerce education gaming, social, and new media marketplaces mobile (& messaging) news online communities Uncategorized end of year roundups trends 2020From gaming to edtech, marketplaces to social+, these were the most-read consumer tech posts of the year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

consumer education gaming, social, and new media marketplaces news online communities Uncategorized coronavirusThe back-to-school season has been a challenging process for teachers, parents, and students across the country.

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Education 114

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

AI, machine & deep learning China consumer design education gaming, social, and new media mobile (& messaging) news 16 Minutes creator economy glossaries & terms to know regional innovation what's next for video

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

consumer education fintech mobile (& messaging) policy & regulation Uncategorized ISAsMillennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 24, 2020

design education open source book launches economics founder/maker stories gene editing including CRISPR history media guests nature of the firm & evolving institutions tech is global when science becomes engineering“The most profound technologies are those that disappear.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics all get cheaper and cheaper? AI, machine & deep learning bio education economics future of work healthcare history when science becomes engineering

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

education book launches community founder/maker stories media guests podcasting industry“I’m in a movie, but it’s the wrong movie.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 18, 2020

policy coronavirus education future of cities jobs manufacturingEvery Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to … The post IT’S TIME TO BUILD appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Education 88

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 29, 2020

marketplaces online communities education healthcare Hustlin' TechThis is the next cycle (Q1 2020) of Hustlin’ Tech , a podcast series (from the a16z Podcast) about technology platforms that create opportunities for people. Recorded right before the coronavirus pandemic, these next 3 episodes touch on many things … The post The Hustler’s Guide to Nursing Jobs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

gaming & new media LSV announcements education entertainment gamingGaming has gone from a niche hobby to a massive global industry across all demographics and well beyond outdated, narrow stereotypes of “gamers”. In fact, games are not even just “games” any longer, but a form of entertainment — the … The post Investing in Roblox appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The conversation generally revolves around opportunity translating into a massive mountain of necessary … Uncategorized education hustlin Hustlin' Tech“You got what it takes, but not enough to get started” — Too Short. An often-discussed problem today is that talent is more evenly distributed than opportunity.

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Technology Education 87

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 30, 2020

marketplaces online communities education healthcare Hustlin' TechThis is the next cycle (Q1 2020) of Hustlin’ Tech , a podcast series (from the a16z Podcast) about technology platforms that create opportunities for people. Recorded right before the coronavirus pandemic, these next 3 episodes touch on many things … The post The Hustler’s Guide to Nursing Jobs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Technology Education Healthcare 63

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 16, 2019

If the current pace of tech change is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution — with its tremendous economic growth and lifestyle change — it means that even though it’s fundamentally empowering and enabling, there’s also lots of … policy book launches education hallway conversations jobs

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Inside Intercom

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I caught up with Ryan for a conversation that ranged from how to articulate your value to educated customers to why he tries to schedule one job interview per day. Customers are more educated than ever. Selling to educated customers. The post G2.com’s Ryan Bonnici on selling to educated customers appeared first on Inside Intercom.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

policy Uncategorized education ISAsA bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a high enough salary to afford it. It’s called an income … The post a16z Podcast: Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt? appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Education 53

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Read more about … marketplaces consumer startups education hustlin Hustlin' TechHustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms — and mindsets — for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the hustle to do great things.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 27, 2019

So in this episode of the a16z … Uncategorized education founder/maker stories our Summit events Summit 2018Laurene Powell Jobs is, among many other things, founder and President of the Emerson Collective — the social impact firm she founded to drive change and reform through philanthropy, investing, and policy solutions.

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Inside Intercom

MARCH 2, 2018

Bootstrapping “Product Education” When I first joined Intercom, my role didn’t really have a name. They’re writers, video editors and educators. We called the team Product Education. All of your content is marketing – both before and after the sale – and everything you create should be crafted with the intention of selling, educating, helping and retaining.

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Inside Intercom

MARCH 26, 2018

If a customer finds something out of date on Intercom’s Help Center , our customer support team can easily let me know through the Messenger on our internal Product Education wiki page. As a member of the Product Education team, I strive to maintain an encyclopedic knowledge of our products. You can then feed that knowledge back into your articles, and elevate your customers’ education with best practice guides.

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