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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

In both the eBay and Uber examples, we see that you can start with a niche – whether that’s a geography or product line – and then quickly scale into a huge network of buyers and sellers. create a marketing strategy to scale the client base and increase visibility. Starting small, and what to do next.

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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. There’s a star rating.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology. Simply stated, it’s harder to make money by working or creating value when the scales tip too far in favor of investors and shareholders.

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