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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

As I learned from the best in the industry – in particular from the Paypal mafia who had employed a metrics-driven viral approach to build some of their most iconic companies – I started to write about what we’d now call growth. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

[Andrew: Paid marketing remains an integral part of many products’ acquisition channels, and one of the key metrics is Cost of Customer Acquisition, which is a nuanced calculation with lots of gotchas. Key Question #1: How long between your marketing/sales touch points and when someone becomes a customer?

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

And we cover everything from the basics of growth and defining key metrics to know, to the nuances of paid vs organic marketing and the role of network effects and more. Sometimes aren’t these metrics ways to figure that out or is this all when you have product-market fit… like is there a pre- and a post- difference between these?