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Hypothesis-Driven Development and the Generalist Superhero

UVA Darden

The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests. The first problem I’ve observed has to do with onboarding generalists. Learn More in the Book. Alex Cowan.

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10 Practical And Effective Change Management Tools And Resources In 2022

Walk Me

When change is incentivized by change leaders right from the point of employee onboarding , staff see that it is helpful and easy to implement. Xerox Corporation’s Robert C Camp developed benchmarking and popularized the subject by writing a book on it. Staff then integrate change into their existing beliefs and skills.

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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

Comic books? If a customer is trying to book a restaurant in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, you don’t care much how many restaurants are also on the platform in Manhattan. Signup and onboarding. Optimization : A/B testing growth levers – from email/SMS/push copy – to when/how to reach out.

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

Andrew Chen

In this essay, I’ll aim to answer this critical question — how do you hire a Head of Growth — using parts of framework from my upcoming first book, The Cold Start Problem. At this point, I’ll take a few sentences to describe “The Cold Start Problem” — one of the central ideas in the book.

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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 the placements that OpenTable got in the restaurant book both physically in the restaurant but particularly in the restaurant’s website was the key engine that got the network effect started. They have to get, you know… Sonal: It’s like the onboarding experience.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. We then called these hosts to help them convert their requests into bookings. Georg Bauser, ex-International Expansion at Airbnb.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. We then called these hosts to help them convert their requests into bookings. Georg Bauser, ex-International Expansion at Airbnb.