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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . June 19th, 2012.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? The mission is the elevator pitch.

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4 Tips for Reaching Productivity Nirvana in 2016

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. What’s the best advice on productivity you’ve ever received? I’ve received great advice from many people over the years. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing. We need to have more of a conversation around that.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? Bob Moore: Yeah, great question.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. It isn’t new stuff.