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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

For instance, Care.com carves off the Childcare section of Craigslist, and provides tech value-add in the form of filters, structured information, and other features to improve the customer experience of finding a local caregiver. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section.

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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.

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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

Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. As part of that, as folks search for important concepts like “product market fit” and “user growth” – my essays are often on the front page. Education during onboarding helps too.

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