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

Andrew Chen

develop partnerships and manage relationships with local hire car operators (NB: Uber does not own any vehicles. If you tend to get homesick after a few days or don’t sleep well unless you’re in your own bed, this is definitely not the position for you. It is also one of the most rewarding. […].

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

Andrew Chen

Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market. Examples : Tips : Takes very few people to operate, should pay for itself from day 1. 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.

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

Walk Me

The definition of organizational development comes in three sections : Uses a critical/ science-based process – Scientific and intensive market research is the basis for organizational development processes. Operations Management. Profit management impacts organizational development, operations, and stakeholder value management.

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

Andrew Chen

This is where the classical definition of a “network effect” is wrong. Ask the operators inside a company though, and you’ll hear a different story: A rapidly growing network wants to both grow as well as tear itself apart, and there are enormous forces in both directions. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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

Andrew Chen

Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market. Examples : Tips : Takes very few people to operate, should pay for itself from day 1. 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.

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The Human Element in Digital Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

As landing page and vaporware testing has gone mainstream and the notion of “always in beta” has become part of some companies’ brand equity, users have become very accepting of online solutions that are “fake” or still very rough around the edges. Ease of testing. As the cost of operating online (i.e., Data on demand.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As Eric Reiss describes , “The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. And creating an MVP is fast, precisely by definition of “minimal.” Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.