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The Future of the Tech Industry: Practices and Culture

Zenefits

A rise in layoffs Some notable companies that cut jobs include: Netflix : The streaming platform laid off 300 people Meta : Facebook’s parent company laid off 13% of their staff Shopify : The eCommerce giant cut about 10% of its workforce The tech industry is now correcting and recalibrating.

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6 Tips on How Human Resource Leaders Can Boost Sales Team Performance

Vantage Circle

Though every sales team member works towards maximizing customer conversion and retention, they do not share the same responsibilities. Besides, they can build a strong talent pipeline and work towards motivating the team to improve and acquire leadership positions in the firm, thereby ensuring talent retention.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. Part one of this conversation focuses specifically on the aspect of user acquisition for growth, and then we cut off and go into the aspects of growth for user engagement and retention, in the next episode. Why offline products are so compelling for acquiring customers.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

Instead of turning off the new channels we tried in March, we would probably make the decision to scale them. Dollar Shave Club and the Case of Subscription Ecommerce – Support, Shipping for Free Trial? Dollar Shave Club is a subscription ecommerce business. This change tells a completely different story.

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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

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization.

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Idea Management: How to Create a Systematic Approach to Capturing Bright Ideas

Vantage Circle

But as you scale a business there’s a risk of losing that dynamism. This is good for morale and will improve employee retention, but it’s especially important as we start to see more of Gen Z in the workforce. Startups pride themselves on speed. So far this has resulted in products like Gmail and AdSense.

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