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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. My previous background up to that point was in user acquisition and ad tech, and I was making the pivot to consumer products. There was a lot to learn. This is great.

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

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. Roadmap : Testing a series of more scalable growth channels, showing that if one network can be built, then multiple networks might be launched as well.

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

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. Tactic #4: Run direct sales.

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

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. Tactic #4: Run direct sales.

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

Andrew Chen

Many of the key levers for driving more user acquisition, retention, engagement, can sometimes sit outside the toolkit for most great product leaders. It provides an underlying system for increasing metrics whether it’s revenue, acquisition, retention, engagement, or another key business metric. New user experience.