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

Andrew Chen

SaaS products often grow inside of companies — landing and expanding — which also jumping between companies as employees share products with partner firms and consultants. 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.

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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. From my experience, it’s a long, windy experience – others have written about their processes as well. 100+ hours of interviewing and prep.

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