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Every time you ask the user click you lose half

Andrew Chen

(And this why tutorials, splash screens, and lengthy signup flows are a bad idea) If you’ve been building apps for a long time and have seen the results of a lot of A/B tests, you quickly realize that people are a flighty bunch. Ask them to download an app and 80% will bounce right on that page.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. Everyone’s had the frustrating experience of running an A/B test, seeing a big lift, closing it out, and expecting the top level metrics to move a lot. Thank you for reading!

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. Everyone’s had the frustrating experience of running an A/B test, seeing a big lift, closing it out, and expecting the top level metrics to move a lot. Thank you for reading!

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

Andrew Chen

Download the deck. This was so viral, in fact, that eventually this app was downloaded millions of times. In early 2018, it became the most downloaded app at that time. 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.

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What’s next in growth?

Andrew Chen

This is the realm of A/B testing, funnel optimization, viral loop construction, building viral content, and creating sticky products. Finally, as promised, here’s a video of this talk and here’s a PDF to download. Execute thoughtfully and iteratively, so that you are learning about your product and platform.

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

Andrew Chen

Download the deck. This was so viral, in fact, that eventually this app was downloaded millions of times. In early 2018, it became the most downloaded app at that time. 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.

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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. A change like this is worth on the order of millions of incremental downloads for Uber. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future. stars to over 4.7

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