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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. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. The problem is that the Growth Accounting Framework provides for lagging metrics.

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

Andrew Chen

Typically organic “pull” from the market combined with a scalable channel with reasonable metrics (CAC/LTV, or viral factor, or otherwise) going into in-app acquisition funnels. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), communication platforms to streamline notifications to users, and much more.

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