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

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. Tactic #4: Run direct sales.

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

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. Tactic #4: Run direct sales.

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

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. Direct sales and product-led viral growth for most B2B collaboration apps. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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Great UX Doesn’t Guarantee a Great Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

It’s another to create a great experience that continues to improve, delight, and expand in scope over time. The first is user experience. The second is customer experience. The two are often used interchangeably. spread out over time.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Who to hire. So which kind of data scientist should you be recruiting?

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Too Many Marketing Teams Are Stuck in the Past

Harvard Business Review

For example, IT decisions that affect marketing may be made without a thoughtful analysis about the resulting user experience beyond page load speed and server uptime. Email marketing templates should not be altered for design reasons without a/b testing the impact of the change on click-through rates.

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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. Ecommerce companies often use push to advertise sales- no wonder the CTRs are low.

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