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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Above: One of my favorite moments in 2018, with the a16z team and POTUS44. . Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Best, Andrew.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Above: One of my favorite moments in 2018, with the a16z team and POTUS44. . Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Best, Andrew.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

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I presented all of this at the Andreessen Horowitz Summit in 2018, which gathers our portfolio companies, partners, LPs, and close friends. In early 2018, it became the most downloaded app at that time. And you get credits in your account when they accept it too – it’s a reciprocal give/get program. A lot of them.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

I presented all of this at the Andreessen Horowitz Summit in 2018, which gathers our portfolio companies, partners, LPs, and close friends. In early 2018, it became the most downloaded app at that time. And you get credits in your account when they accept it too – it’s a reciprocal give/get program. A lot of them.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

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Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. As of early 2018, when I had presented this, these were some of the companies that had growth titles or formal growth teams). How do you predict the future?

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