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

Andrew Chen

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. Signup and onboarding. Setting up payment.

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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. The first problem I’ve observed has to do with onboarding generalists.

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Develop Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With 6 Practical Examples

AIHR

Hiring and onboarding The onboarding process begins once a candidate receives a formal offer, accepts, and is officially hired by the company. The onboarding process is a key part of the employee life cycle and sets the foundation for the rest of that employee’s journey with you.

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Travis – thank you for leading us at Uber

Andrew Chen

He’ll ask about the sample sizes on your A/B tests. Building an organization that scales from 10 to 10,000 people is insanity. Scaling yourself at the same time is grinding. From the part-time student teacher driver to the full-time driver in India, these are real economic opportunities at an unprecedented scale.

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Performance Appraisal Systems: Everything You Need to Know

15Five

Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) BARS is a scale that assesses employee performance based on predefined behavioral statements and patterns directly tied to job performance. Drawbacks: Developing BARS can be time-intensive, and creating universally applicable scales for all positions may be challenging.

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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?

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