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Hypothesis-Driven Development and the Generalist Superhero

UVA Darden

The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests. Learn More in the Book. Alex Cowan. Hypothesis-Driven Development: A Guide to Smarter Product Management.

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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 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. The framework for the book starts with an empirical insight: Most networks fail at the beginning.

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

Andrew Chen

Comic books? 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. “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. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering?

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11 Awesome Patty McCord Quotes in Powerful about Building a Great Culture at Netflix

Get Lighthouse

As McCord quotes in her book, companies that "fostered honest feedback and had more open communication" had a 270% better return on investment over a 10 year period than those that did not. So they let the data do the talking and ran an A/B test. And the payoff? Can you afford to leave 270% of returns on the table?

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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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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. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering?