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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

SME Strategy

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition.

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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. Sonal: How do you determine what’s what when you don’t have product-market fit? Why blended CAC numbers are misleading.

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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. Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. Expand into new geographic markets. Add new products and price points.

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

Andrew Chen

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Aside from the historically tight labor market for these skills, it’s also tricky to have a simple answer to the question. Escape Velocity.

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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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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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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.