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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. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. The problem is that the Growth Accounting Framework provides for lagging metrics.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

And add it to the onboarding flow, and at the end of key transactions when the user is otherwise done, and you might as well capture engagement. In the end, probably just worth A/B testing to see what works best. You’ll need some kind of ROI metric to drive the strategy of the referral program. The Payback.

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Performance Appraisal Systems: Everything You Need to Know

15Five

The objective is what the business or employee wants to achieve, and the key results are measurable metrics that show how well the business or individual is accomplishing the objectives. Implementation: Companies can implement forced ranking by establishing clear performance criteria and using objective metrics to evaluate employees.

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10 Practical And Effective Change Management Tools And Resources In 2022

Walk Me

Supply managers with metrics of change progress. Consistency and metrics are two of the most potent tools in change management. When change is incentivized by change leaders right from the point of employee onboarding , staff see that it is helpful and easy to implement. Internal communication such as surveys for staff feedback.

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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. 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. Including, as always, key metrics and how to think about them. Why blended CAC numbers are misleading.

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

Andrew Chen

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. Retention metrics roundup of articles and links by Andrew Chen. Question: Is this a channel your competition hasn’t tried yet? Tactic #17: Optimize conversion. Here’s Why.

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

Andrew Chen

It requires the founders to be very involved onboarding users, sometimes one-by-one, into the product. Roadmap : Testing a series of more scalable growth channels, showing that if one network can be built, then multiple networks might be launched as well. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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