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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016. During its Q1 2017 earnings call, Facebook told investors that it expected ad revenue was approaching a saturation point, despite major growth in Q1 2017 earnings as compared to 2016. 3 Banner blindness = shitty clickthroughs.

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5 Recommendations for Setting Yearly Growth Goals

Brian Balfour

Top Down Analysis Lets say your primary metric is WAUs (Weekly Active Users) and you are currently at 100,000. Retention by 20%? Rather than starting with where you want to get your primary metric, start with the inputs. Where does the model tell you you’ll end up on your primary metric at the end of the year?

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Are You Getting a Return on Your Investment in Employee Training?

Zenefits

Employee training can be a remedy for an organization’s talent shortfalls by boosting engagement and, in turn, boosting retention. In a joint 2016 survey by Deloitte and MIT Sloan Management Review, 90% of the organizations polled expected their industries to be totally disrupted by digital trends.

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Cost of Living vs. Cost of Labor — Is There a Difference?

Zenefits

Cost of living: a government-based metric using economic factors that look at how people spend money to live their day-to-day lives. Cost of labor: a metric based on how much employers must pay to hire for specific roles. It’s an often-asked question, and we’re here to help provide some clarity.

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Is More Effective Training the Answer?

LSA Global

Some blame low morale (TSA ranked 303 rd out of 305 government agencies in 2016). Like most performance issues, the answer to improvements in TSA screening most likely contains a combination of actions related to clear goals/roles/processes, improved technology, better trained employees and aligned performance metrics and rewards.

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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

While there were people thinking about user acquisition and ad tech, and some early consumer teams (like Eric Ries’s IMVU) thinking about cohort curves to mention retention, it hadn’t been centralized into a team that could execute against it. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts.

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10 Ways to Create a Great Company Culture

Vantage Circle

A strong company culture can improve employee retention, boost morale, and increase productivity. Studies suggest that expressing gratitude results in improved employee satisfaction and retention. We can claim that Airbnb has done well in this area since they were named first on Glassdoor's "Best Workplaces in 2016" list.