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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

SaaS products often grow inside of companies — landing and expanding — which also jumping between companies as employees share products with partner firms and consultants. I often use benchmarks like D30 >20% or projecting out M12 to be >30% to try to assess this. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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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

2) Then, to identify potential upside based learnings from within the company as well as across benchmarks from across industry. 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. 100+ hours of interviewing and prep.

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What to do when product growth stalls

Andrew Chen

There are many benchmarks out there for all the product categories, but as a very rough guideline, you need a D1/D7/D30 of 60/30/15% to be at respectable numbers for a social app. An enterprise SaaS product would have its own set of metrics. I use tons of A/B testing and experiments in messaging to make this happen.