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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. In your mind, what is different in the way companies need to operate in that post-unicorn stage? .

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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

We witness so many of the subtle gains of our labor – ideas made real, people turned passionate partners and the prospects of inching ever-closer to a long-term future rather than the great likelihood of total business failure. But by year 10, just one-third remain in operation. Re-set the vendor and partner paradigm.

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Is your CFO a bookkeeper or a strategist?

Berkonomics

I recently coached a CFO in a small company to urge the CEO to stop working upon the operational issues and focus upon the future, even if that meant a pivot to protect the business as the world was changing in that industry at an accelerated rate. What is the role of a chief financial officer in growing and protecting the company?

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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How to Improve Financial Metrics That Matter

Up and Running

The cash-assets ratio is a key measure of liquidity and one of several coverage ratios that tell creditors about a company’s likelihood of default. How to improve your cash-assets ratio. A key way to boost a business’s cash-assets ratio is to boost its cash position, and there are numerous approaches to do this.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Level 12-13 Operational. Teamwork skills are excellent at the project, company, and industry-partner levels. I should mention that Fog Creek is just starting, were a new company, and we dont have a lot of cash.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

Up and Running

Operations. If you partner with a large, wealthy private school district who wants you to provide comic book packages to all their eighth-grade students every month, that contract might be key your business survival for a period of time. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?