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

Andrew Chen

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. And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. Sonal: Okay. They get the product.

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

Walk Me

Human Resources (HR) Marketing Sales Customer Care Public Relations (PR) Investor Relations Regulatory Affairs. Netflix is one example of such a company, using A/B tests and sharing data collection findings with all aspects of the organization to use continuous change to foster a learning culture. Stakeholder value management.

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

Andrew Chen

Direct sales and product-led viral growth for most B2B collaboration apps. Or if you just put X engineers on Y product optimizations, then the growth rate increases by Z. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), This is when growth becomes predictable, repeatable, and forecastable.

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

Andrew Chen

If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Tactic #3: Offer a referrals program. Tactic #17: Optimize conversion.

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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. This includes CEOs/founders, VPs, PMs, marketing folks, data science, engineers, and so on. Ecommerce companies often use push to advertise sales- no wonder the CTRs are low.

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

Andrew Chen

If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Tactic #3: Offer a referrals program. Tactic #17: Optimize conversion.

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

There’s a long laundry list of skills that are critical, but not often considered core to the product: adtech integrations, signup funnel A/B testing, optimizing notification delivery, testing price points, testing cohort curves, etc. You’d want an Android and iOS engineers.