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). For these companies, innovation is a matter of life or death, and the best way to survive is to nail the product for a new platform—and that means nailing R&D spend.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. By default, Neeva uses a person’s IP address to “infer” where the user is, though based on my tests, it was several hundred miles off. France and Germany. Neeva search engine. Tripadvisor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. Zoomin Software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. What can the OKR software sector tell us about startup growth more generally?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. I like healthcare a lot.

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