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horowitz

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A graduate of the Stanford StartX accelerator, Pixlee is an Andreessen Horowitz and XSeed Capital portfolio company.

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Quick take

A surname from German.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A surname from German.

noun

Ellipsis of Horowitz index. [(medicine, pulmonology) An assessment of lung function; the ratio of partial pressure of oxygen in blood (PaO2), and the fraction of oxygen in the inhaled air (FiO2).]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for horowitz.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

Ellipsis of Horowitz index. [(medicine, pulmonology) An assessment of lung function; the ratio of partial pressure of oxygen in blood (PaO2), and the fraction of oxygen in the inhaled air (FiO2).]

Example sentences

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A graduate of the Stanford StartX accelerator, Pixlee is an Andreessen Horowitz and XSeed Capital portfolio company.

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Ben Horowitz wrote a blog post in 2010 about their preference for founder CEOs.

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In the highly competitive world of private equity dealings, Andreessen Horowitz viewed a cowed, demoralized Kleiner as a less capable bidder for funding deals.

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The only reason she had the job at all was because Reddit investor and rival firm Andreessen Horowitz wanted to lend credence to that lawsuit.

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In the Hard Thing About Hard things, Horowitz writes that most management books are written by people who have never even managed a hot dog stand.

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I've found what Ben Horowitz has written about management to be incredibly helpful.

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Bradley Horowitz still carries that torch unfortunately.

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(Have been let go, and had to let go 40% of a company) Ben Horowitz writes about this, and it's required reading.

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Wow; I hadn't seen this Horowitz post til now.

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There was a Andreessen Horowitz presentation on this very topic going around a few weeks back - it's worth a read if I can dig it up (or you could be relentlessly resourceful;)).

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It seems (based on the Horowitz reference, pardon me if I am wrong) you're implying that Mr Price was wrong to make the change based on losing two key employees (and probably more that didn't up and quit).

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As a manager, deciding who gets the raise and who doesn't is already a hard decision (as Ben Horowitz says: Both actions will make some people feel left out), without your employees trying to undermine that.

Quote examples

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Kupor, of Andreessen Horowitz." Many of these private IPOs restrict employees to selling shares back to the company at say 10% of the vested allotment.

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Picking three at random from Google, the first prizes were $1,000, $3,000, and "a meeting with Andreesen Horowitz", plus a bunch of discounts from Rackspace and so on.

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I personally believe in one learning from "The hard thing about hard things" book by Ben Horowitz, is that you should sell your startup when you have reached your max capability to take the startup to the next level.

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And here's Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, evoking the same harsh truth of Glengarry Glen Ross: “I’ve been totally determined to be on the other side of that [highly competitive, market-driven] dynamic by being here, because success in software follows a power-law distribution.

Proper noun examples

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Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.

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As for blogs I follow closely Paul Graham's, Sam Altman's, Ben Horowitz's and Alex Torrenegra's.

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Learned that from reading about Horowitz, and it works.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use horowitz in a sentence?

A graduate of the Stanford StartX accelerator, Pixlee is an Andreessen Horowitz and XSeed Capital portfolio company.

What does horowitz mean?

A surname from German.

What part of speech is horowitz?

horowitz is commonly used as noun.