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

Andrew Chen

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!), The deck unpacks a lot of different topics: How “growth accounting” metrics are great, but are lagging indicators.

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

Andrew Chen

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!), The deck unpacks a lot of different topics: How “growth accounting” metrics are great, but are lagging indicators.

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10 Effective Company Core Values Examples To Take Inspiration From

Vantage Circle

But in the end, the company declared bankruptcy, and its leaders were sent to prison due to fraudulent accounting practices in 2001. They expect accountability and strategic moves from their employees. Ownership This organizational value of amazon emphasizes accountability on the part of the employee.

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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. There’s a couple common frameworks to try to understand this, and one is the Growth Accounting Framework. How do you predict the future? Is it working and will it sustain?

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

Andrew Chen

Transportation and travel. And you get credits in your account when they accept it too – it’s a reciprocal give/get program. It has tracking codes so you can see how well it circulates, and you A/B test the whole thing to make sure it’s highly optimized to be viral and spread.

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

Andrew Chen

Transportation and travel. And you get credits in your account when they accept it too – it’s a reciprocal give/get program. It has tracking codes so you can see how well it circulates, and you A/B test the whole thing to make sure it’s highly optimized to be viral and spread.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

The OTA sites (online travel agencies – Priceline and Expedia) just spends, you know, they spend a GDP of many large countries in their acquisition; and then it’s often a tactic in some good business. And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. Andrew: Exactly.