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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. By understanding how these forces work, we can accelerate the systems that power them.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, I find it helpful to distinguish between the deliverables they create. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. They are decision scientists.

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How To Build a High-Performing Digital Team

Harvard Business Review

People who are used to throwing their deliverable over the transom and clocking out — a familiar paradigm in print production — may have trouble tolerating the shifting sands of digital. For example, years ago there was a tidy division between the wireframe creators and front-end developers. Who updates that feature?