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

Zenefits

SMBs must weigh the benefits of training against time and money to get a return on investment, or ROI. Simply put, ROI is the gain from an investment measured against its cost. ROI usually is calculated in percentages using this basic formula : ROI = Net Profit ΒΈ Total Investment x 100. Any software required.

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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. Paying for acquisition is one of the key channels still available, if you can find the right untapped audience segments with high ROIs. YesWare <> Hubspot Sales. There’s not a ton of organic opportunities.

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Writing a Book As an Extension of Your Business | Becky Robinson

Peter Winick

Our conversation begins with the difficult topic of measuring the ROI of a business book. In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. It’s all about book sales and units and all that. Becky shares how that equation held her back from starting a book – until the pandemic hit. For an author.

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

Andrew Chen

And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. The bigger idea is actually β€œaudio”, not specifically podcasting.

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

Andrew Chen

And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. The bigger idea is actually β€œaudio”, not specifically podcasting.