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

Andrew Chen

Comic books? If a customer is trying to book a restaurant in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, you don’t care much how many restaurants are also on the platform in Manhattan. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale. “No-brainer pass.”

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

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Tactic #17: Optimize conversion.

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

Andrew Chen

In this essay, I’ll aim to answer this critical question — how do you hire a Head of Growth — using parts of framework from my upcoming first book, The Cold Start Problem. At this point, I’ll take a few sentences to describe “The Cold Start Problem” — one of the central ideas in the book.

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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

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. One evolution is the number of books and conferences now dedicated to growth. Ecommerce companies often use push to advertise sales- no wonder the CTRs are low.

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10 Practical And Effective Change Management Tools And Resources In 2022

Walk Me

Examples of various subcultures are design, sales, or IT departments. A sales team could initiate offers and promotions to generate excitement. A sales team could initiate offers and promotions to generate excitement. Sales representatives must know all details and benefits of products before interacting with customers. .

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

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. Tactic #17: Optimize conversion.

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

Andrew Chen

And the placements that OpenTable got in the restaurant book both physically in the restaurant but particularly in the restaurant’s website was the key engine that got the network effect started. And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. Sonal: Like a flywheel effect, right.