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

Andrew Chen

There are, of course, a lot of reasons to use the postal service – there’s personal correspondence, bills, advertising, and many other uses. 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. It still works.

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

Andrew Chen

There are, of course, a lot of reasons to use the postal service – there’s personal correspondence, bills, advertising, and many other uses. 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. It still works.

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

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And then we layered in payment integration and each time we did that the total growth of the company would actually accelerate which is very hard to do at scale. . And then there’s this dynamics on how does it scale over time, CAC tends to go up, LTV tends to go down. ” “How is it gonna scale?”

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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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The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization.

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