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What's the Point of Planning? The Benefits of a 5-Year Business Plan

Mind Tools Strategy

And in the radio station where we worked, large-scale change was looming. So we made a five-year plan – a fairly small-scale one, granted, but, in retrospect, it was actually a very business-minded approach. We looked for useful metrics , including the income we’d need at different points in the plan. Reference: [1] U.S.

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Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December

Andrew Chen

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These types of products benefit from “network effects” — that they become more useful as more users engage.

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Performance Appraisal: The Ultimate Guide

AIHR

However, if taken full advantage of, this process provides countless benefits to ensure you keep your employees productive and engaged. Identifying opportunities for improvement based on pre-determined goals and metrics is a key goal of performance appraisals. They are conducted and tossed to the side without a second thought.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

I presented all of this at the Andreessen Horowitz Summit in 2018, which gathers our portfolio companies, partners, LPs, and close friends. Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. Hope you enjoy it.

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27 Best Leadership Books for HR Leaders [2024 Edition]

AIHR

But the benefits of continuous learning are worth the time invested – both for yourself and your teams. Scaling People (2023) by Claire Hughes Johnson Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. Also available as an audiobook.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

I presented all of this at the Andreessen Horowitz Summit in 2018, which gathers our portfolio companies, partners, LPs, and close friends. Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. Hope you enjoy it.

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Hard Problems in Soft Cultures

Ed Batista

People deprived of opportunities to satisfy at work the needs that are now important to them behave exactly as we might predict--with indolence, passivity, resistance to change, lack of responsibility, willingness to follow the demagogue, unreasonable demands for economic benefits. Pirates in the Navy (2018). So what can be done?