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

Andrew Chen

If you tend to get homesick after a few days or don’t sleep well unless you’re in your own bed, this is definitely not the position for you. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale. We live out of suitcases, and our most important possessions are our MacAirs and our Passports.

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

Andrew Chen

Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market. What : Getting new users to a key milestone that you believe is important for long-term retention. Tactic #21: Optimize retention.

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

Walk Me

The definition of organizational development comes in three sections : Uses a critical/ science-based process – Scientific and intensive market research is the basis for organizational development processes. Human Resources (HR) Marketing Sales Customer Care Public Relations (PR) Investor Relations Regulatory Affairs.

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

Andrew Chen

This is where the classical definition of a “network effect” is wrong. It’s usually a 100% focus on acquisition — and not much on retention at all, so it’s more hustle and less notifications/email-led. Direct sales and product-led viral growth for most B2B collaboration apps.

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

Andrew Chen

Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market. What : Getting new users to a key milestone that you believe is important for long-term retention. Tactic #21: Optimize retention.

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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. Part one of this conversation focuses specifically on the aspect of user acquisition for growth, and then we cut off and go into the aspects of growth for user engagement and retention, in the next episode. Why offline products are so compelling for acquiring customers. Andrew: Right.

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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. I use MAUs in this example but you could also use active subscribers, or users who have bought something in the past 30 days, or some other definition.

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