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Are You Getting a Return on Your Investment in Employee Training?

Zenefits

Employee training can be a remedy for an organization’s talent shortfalls by boosting engagement and, in turn, boosting retention. In a joint 2016 survey by Deloitte and MIT Sloan Management Review, 90% of the organizations polled expected their industries to be totally disrupted by digital trends.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016. During its Q1 2017 earnings call, Facebook told investors that it expected ad revenue was approaching a saturation point, despite major growth in Q1 2017 earnings as compared to 2016. YesWare <> Hubspot Sales.

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Cost of Living vs. Cost of Labor — Is There a Difference?

Zenefits

Cost of living: a government-based metric using economic factors that look at how people spend money to live their day-to-day lives. Cost of labor: a metric based on how much employers must pay to hire for specific roles. It’s an often-asked question, and we’re here to help provide some clarity. What is cost of labor? labor costs.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

While there were people thinking about user acquisition and ad tech, and some early consumer teams (like Eric Ries’s IMVU) thinking about cohort curves to mention retention, it hadn’t been centralized into a team that could execute against it. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts.

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How A Celebrated Aerospace Contractor Holds On To Its People

Chief Executive

Soto previously headed a Tier One aerospace supplier that had been founded by his father and, in 2016, sold the company now known as DRT Aerospace. Hygrade’s sales fell by roughly half during Covid but lately have recovered to nearly $4 million annually, “which is one of the things that got the SBA’s attention.” • Make people accountable.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. Audio content is also available a la carte starting at $0.03

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. Audio content is also available a la carte starting at $0.03