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

Andrew Chen

Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. They have to get, you know… Sonal: It’s like the onboarding experience. Sonal: It’s like counting impressions and being able to sell that to advertisers.

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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

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. Or perhaps you can assume there’s no engineering help, and it’s just a matter of adding a few new advertising channels. Education during onboarding helps too.

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

There’s a long laundry list of skills that are critical, but not often considered core to the product: adtech integrations, signup funnel A/B testing, optimizing notification delivery, testing price points, testing cohort curves, etc. Yes, occasionally there are people who know all of it – but they are rare!