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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

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 mix of short- and long-term, offensive and defensive bets depends on your product and business priorities. Why do those priorities make sense in the current market?

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

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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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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Platforms that are transforming how people and businesses operate, go about their business or leverage their core assets, using superior products, data and AI. Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over

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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. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Jeff Newton / Hippo.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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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.

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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

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The mix of positives such as a fast-growing population–the youngest globally–, solid smartphone penetration, increasing crypto adoption, and negatives like low GDP per capita across board and unemployment makes Africa the next ripe ground for web3. For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo.

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Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe

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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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