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

Andrew Chen

In the podcast, we cover a broad overview of growth/marketing topics, including: The natural “gravity” that slows down high-growth businesses. Organic, paid marketing, and LTV/CAC. Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. I’ve linked to the Soundcloud and included a transcript below.

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10 Growth Marketing Trends Businesses Leaders Need

Zenefits

One way companies are doing that is through growth marketing. In this article, we’ll look at just what growth marketing is, as well as some trends that business leaders should utilize to improve their user or customer base. First, let’s define growth marketing and examine what it is and does. What is growth marketing?

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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. Examples of various subcultures are design, sales, or IT departments. CRM as we know it today began in the 1980s with pioneering database marketers Robert and Kate Kestenbaum.

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

Andrew Chen

and the taxi market. Based on data points from the global taxi and car-service market, he concluded the real number should be $5.9B. The reason the estimate was so off, as investor Bill Gurley pointed out , is that Uber goes beyond taxi use cases and grows the market substantially by unlocking many new categories of transportation.

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

Andrew Chen

Aside from the historically tight labor market for these skills, it’s also tricky to have a simple answer to the question. For example, Zoom’s videoconferencing network can work with just two people, whereas Airbnb’s requires hundreds of active rental listings in a market to become stable. Escape Velocity.

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

Andrew Chen

I’ve had folks over to 1455 Market St, the headquarters of Uber, and I’ve reciprocated with visits to the Airbnb offices too. Importantly, both companies are tremendous growth stories, and have needed to grow both demand but especially supply in all of their markets globally. Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Thanks, Andrew.

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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. As part of that, as folks search for important concepts like “product market fit” and “user growth” – my essays are often on the front page. This term dominates.

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