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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

.” What I mean by that is that all of these conversations and networking are more useful when you are starting a company, creating a new podcast, are working on a new project or book, or something else. In my case, I was very interested in the state of the art on growing users, metrics, network effects, and marketing.

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From Clicks To Converts; Maximise Your Digital Advertisement Outputs In 2020

Vantage Circle

Whether its click here, buy now, book this table, it can be anything. Analyze your campaign as to maximizing what works and chucking out what doesn’t and acting accordingly because these metrics have deep implication on the final conversion rate. One way of achieving this is through A/B testing. Calls to Action.

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11 Awesome Patty McCord Quotes in Powerful about Building a Great Culture at Netflix

Get Lighthouse

Is it publishing your revenue metrics so the whole world can see it? As McCord quotes in her book, companies that "fostered honest feedback and had more open communication" had a 270% better return on investment over a 10 year period than those that did not. So they let the data do the talking and ran an A/B test.

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10 Practical And Effective Change Management Tools And Resources In 2022

Walk Me

Supply managers with metrics of change progress. Consistency and metrics are two of the most potent tools in change management. Goals must be aware of resource limitations such as budget and physical tools used and clear a timeline including metrics or Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to record progress. How they communicate.

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

Andrew Chen

And we cover everything from the basics of growth and defining key metrics to know, to the nuances of paid vs organic marketing and the role of network effects and more. Sometimes aren’t these metrics ways to figure that out or is this all when you have product-market fit… like is there a pre- and a post- difference between these?

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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. One evolution is the number of books and conferences now dedicated to growth. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts.

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

Andrew Chen

Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company.

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