Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 17, 2012

For web development, usually it's pretty much the same across the board, but if you're making jewelry in China, it's going to be hard to get much done with a 500k seed round. Sometimes, this also relates to capital requirements of what the team needs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under an advice framework, my Forum-mates take turns telling me what I should do in my specific situation. However, with an experience sharing framework, everyone in the group will instead share a personal story related to my presentation. In my experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. For example: 1. I’m all for more opinions, not less.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. A board can be a crucial asset in an early-stage startup. What is a board of directors, anyway? What is a board of directors, anyway? What exactly can a board help you do?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

He serves on the advisory boards for entrepreneurship at Cornell University and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Conventional DLP solutions are built on a castle-and-moat framework in which data centers and cloud platforms are the castles holding sensitive data. Sid Trivedi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Settle.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. What exactly is the purpose of a Board of Directors and how do boards best function? I plan to write a series of posts on the topic.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The 4 states of an engineering team is a mental model that resonated with me, and I think it provides a framework for leadership teams and boards to understand the state of a developer team. The state of an eng team can be opaque from the outside, and this framework illuminates the status in a simple way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Founded in late-2019 by former Apple and Oculus/Facebook engineer Nirav Patel, Framework is among those burgeoning hardware startups focused on placing repairability as a key feature in product design. Image Credits: Framework. The raise finds Spark General Partner Kevin Thau joining Framework’s board.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2023

offers training based on the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) syllabus, which is widely acknowledged as the industry standard by software testers. Recently, AITest.AI launched an innovative AI-testing training course on Udemy , a global e-learning platform, and has attained the topmost position in this field.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

They should act as a liaison between the founders, the C-suite, investors and the board of directors with the development team — making sure everyone is asking the right ethical questions in a thoughtful, risk-averse manner. It is an end-to-end governance framework focused on the risks and controls of an organization’s AI journey.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Once we have taken stock, we can arm ourselves with the new data and use it to challenge the thinking of our boards or investors. We learned how the RAWI framework can be a simple but powerful method of taking control of the situation. Now is the time to reassess our options, challenge our assumptions and reconsider the status quo.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda. Is she getting enough board exposure? Is she feeling motivated?

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation. Showing support and being a sounding board may be the only thing needed for the entrepreneur to build something amazing,” said Keller.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At the heart of growth hacking are growth marketers who use stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests to achieve rapid growth. For example, we signed up with platforms such as Handshake, a college student job board, to recruit students to drive for us for extra cash in their spare time. Let me give you an example.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Here’s a framework that digital health startups can consider: Bring clinicians into senior leadership. My co-founder is a triple-board-certified psychiatrist who brings clinical expertise to everything she does. My co-founder is a triple-board-certified psychiatrist who brings clinical expertise to everything she does.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In your initial conversations with the active buyer, you can expect to learn how much they intend to offer, as well as set up a framework for the process. Regardless of how the process started, you, your board and advisers have a few short weeks to negotiate with all interested parties. That’s when things get hectic.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? Human Resources The HR section should include consulting agreements, recruiting agreements, and any specific board/director expertise not already covered in your confidential investor deck. Make it easy on them and provide it here. substantial real estate lease agreements).

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The firm has created a framework that will uniquely help the earliest stage companies develop innovative cyber solutions that will also help accelerate product-market fit. Syn gives seed founders and companies access to its industry networks as well as opportunities to participate in related events the firm has for their portfolio companies.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

This framework has helped me many times simplify strategic questions and shift from questioning to analysis to action. By using an analysis framework like the one above, you can bring clarity and a common language with your board for evaluating and making the right strategic choices.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2014

At a board meeting last week, one of the VPs of Marketing I’m lucky to work with presented a brilliantly simple way of explaining the evolution of a startup’s marketing tactics. I’ve drawn a diagram of the idea above, which borrows heavily from McKinsey’s 3 horizons.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. I am there, along with other investors and board members to audit their thinking--to make sure they were considerate about the plans *they* came up with, not me.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community. This will add to the revenue base when it’s completed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2020

Anticipate their concerns, and the framework of your message becomes clear. She participates in EO’s Accelerator program in Los Angeles, California and also sits on the EO Accelator Board there. When crafting your messaging, frame it through the lens of the recipients. Their question is always the same: “How does this affect me?”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” I see this in cases where sometimes board members don’t want to take on the “Pottery Barn Rule” that if you break it, you fix it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kannry led the cyber insurance team for several years at Aon, while Dave came from Carnegie Mellon and spent the bulk of his career architecting cybersecurity frameworks, including a model — C2M2 (Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model) — adopted by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2021

Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s MPD (Member Products Director). I realized that for so many entrepreneurs, “design” was a mindset: our lives and businesses could be designed with the right series of decisions, habits, systems, processes and frameworks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. “We need the confidence of a clear regulatory framework to invest the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars necessary to manufacture vehicles at scale. government had relaxed vehicle safety requirements for an AV. ”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

With this fundraising round completed, iGlobe Partners’ partner Joyce Ng will be joining Partipost’s board as a director. With data insights collected through its in-app polls and user behaviours, Partipost’s data-centric framework crowdsources influencers with follower sizes ranging from a few hundred to millions of followers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

I will keep all my board seats and companies, and I’ll be there to help any of my partners, but I’m going to step back and spend some time forming theses for my next chapter. Frank Chen, my first hiring manager who took a bet on me and for many years taught me investment frameworks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

After regulatory approvals for the funding are completed, Sequoia Capital India managing director Abheek Anand will join StashAway’s board of directors as part of the round. Investment app StashAway has raised a $25 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors Eight Roads Ventures and Square Peg.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. More posts by this contributor. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

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