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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. Tactic #21: Optimize retention. Cost : Medium.

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

Andrew Chen

Network effects emerge when products, like marketplaces, social apps, B2B collaboration tools, and so on, get more useful the more users that are on them.In It’s usually a 100% focus on acquisition — and not much on retention at all, so it’s more hustle and less notifications/email-led. Next is Escape Velocity.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. Tactic #21: Optimize retention. Cost : Medium.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. Part one of this conversation focuses specifically on the aspect of user acquisition for growth, and then we cut off and go into the aspects of growth for user engagement and retention, in the next episode. Part 2: Engagement and Retention. Sonal: Right. Sonal: Yesss.

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

Above: When you just look at the cross-section of companies in the industry, many of the newest and best B2B and consumer companies have all built growth teams. Many of the key levers for driving more user acquisition, retention, engagement, can sometimes sit outside the toolkit for most great product leaders.