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a16z Growth's David George on His Frameworks for Late-Stage Investing

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Framework for R&D Spending and Measurement

This chapter discusses the critical importance of tracking R&D spending relative to go-to-market costs, advocating for a structured framework to benchmark budgets and connect product initiatives to ROI. It addresses the challenges of measuring long-term paybacks and emphasizes the need for rigorous performance metrics in the face of delayed feedback in product development.

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