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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included! The deck unpacks a lot of different topics: How “growth accounting” metrics are great, but are lagging indicators. DAU/MAU is an important metric to measure engagement, but here’s where it fails.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included! The deck unpacks a lot of different topics: How “growth accounting” metrics are great, but are lagging indicators. DAU/MAU is an important metric to measure engagement, but here’s where it fails.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company.

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

Walk Me

This action involves ongoing improvement to reduce costs and increase revenue to allow more significant profits, all directed by qualitative and quantitative metrics and analysis. Operations management influences how a company uses organizational resources to create and transport products and services to external and internal stakeholders.

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

Andrew Chen

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. Sometimes aren’t these metrics ways to figure that out or is this all when you have product-market fit… like is there a pre- and a post- difference between these?

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Another note is that this is closely related to, and complimentary, to this deck: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics. If the below deck is the macro view of how I’m looking at markets, industries, and technologies, then the metrics deck gives my POV on how to diligence each company.

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

Andrew Chen

While both consumer marketplaces are very different — one is a city-by-city transportation service, the other a global network of homes — they also share a lot of similarities too: Both were founded within a year of each other, quickly found network effects, made major design innovations that made the consumer experience 10X better, and much more.