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

Andrew Chen

Let’s start by looking at where the service economy is right now and why it’s resisted a full scale transformation by software. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section. Five strategies for unlocking supply in regulated markets. Future opportunities.

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

Andrew Chen

Or are you trying to scale its success? In the book, I describe stage-by-stage how to successfully start and scale the central forces that power tech’s most successful companies — network effects. When a company like Dropbox, Slack, or Uber hit scale, it might seem like network effects kick in, and the next phase is easy.

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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

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization.

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