Vantage Circle

MARCH 13, 2019

“There’s never been a better time to be in advertising, and there’s never been a worse time.” – Aaron Reitkopf. In this epoch of aggressive yet convenient advertisement campaigns, it's easier to get lost, now more than ever. Most platforms allow you to target your advertisement to prospect. Research. Target Audience.

Advertising 40

Advertising A/B Testing Media Marketing 40

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. The problem is that the Growth Accounting Framework provides for lagging metrics.

Metrics 111

Metrics Scaling Marketing Media 111

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company.

Media 100

Media Advertising Scaling Marketing 100

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

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?

Marketing 75

Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company.

Media 40

Media Advertising Scaling Marketing 40

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There’s a long laundry list of skills that are critical, but not often considered core to the product: adtech integrations, signup funnel A/B testing, optimizing notification delivery, testing price points, testing cohort curves, etc. Impact is how much the metric moves as a result of the change.

Engineering 110

Engineering A/B Testing Marketing User Experience 110

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 23, 2017

We can do so much more these days by integrating into platforms, and by tracking, and our sophistication in metrics like viral factor and cohort analysis, but the same general trust is there. Pretty sure that the first prehistoric cave-dwelling ancestor that could advertise their wares to their nearby communities got a major edge.

Media 100

Media Marketing Advertising A/B Testing 100