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Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays

Andrew Chen

Jonathan Golden (ex-Airbnb) on bootstrapping liquidity, adding host guarantees, reacting to competition, user experience. Andrei Brasovean (Accel) gives a comprehensive list of Marketplace metrics. Angela Tran Kingyens (VersionOne) on a Marketplace metrics dashboard. How to think about frequency and retention?

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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

One of the most frequent questions that founders ask is – I’ve read all about the importance of user growth, so now, how do I hire a Head of Growth? Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal.

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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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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.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market. It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market. It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there.