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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

And add it to the onboarding flow, and at the end of key transactions when the user is otherwise done, and you might as well capture engagement. This is in direct contradiction to folks who often argue to let users experience the product first, have a good experience, before they’re hit up to invite.

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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. after a great experience).

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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. It requires the founders to be very involved onboarding users, sometimes one-by-one, into the product. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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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. after a great experience).

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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. Education during onboarding helps too.

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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. For the new user experience – which might include increasing signup conversion, and maybe even integration into ads – you’d probably emphasize engineers.