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What to do when product growth stalls

Andrew Chen

Assessing the stall – starting with retention First off, let me explain what’s happening during a growth stall. This happens because typically churn happens to a % of the user base, as anyone who’s seen cohorted retention curves knows. Is there a way for me to test that positioning in user testing or otherwise?

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

And that’s how I ended up being exposed first to concepts like retention curves, DAU/MAU, viral loops, and so on. I had a superpower in my domain knowledge of CAC, A/B testing, funnel optimization, lead gen, etc, and began to merge all of this thinking with consumer products. Thank you!)

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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. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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Develop Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With 6 Practical Examples

AIHR

A/B testing everything will be incredibly valuable. This way, IBM can attract top talent after graduation and boost their retention rates. It can also tell you if certain questions in your application process deter candidates from filling them out or completing them so you can eliminate these questions.

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

Andrew Chen

Transactions require strong retention of both demand and supply, and if a marketplace can improve that stickiness, more activity can be generated on the platform. In many ways, this is just a classic retention problem, except with multiple players within the ecosystem. Grow supply + demand stickiness. Or perhaps all of them!

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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. “Move fast and break things.”

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

Andrew Chen

The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. What : Getting new users to a key milestone that you believe is important for long-term retention. Tactic #21: Optimize retention. Track retention by cohort, vs. globally.