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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. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Cost: Small.

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A Brief Introduction To Redis

Vantage Circle

It also helps provide a responsive user experience with minimal overhead. One of the features of Redis is linear scalability and sub-millisecond performance at a massive scale. As we endeavor for a rapid and smooth user experience in the future, we are planning to use Redis Stream for communication with different microservices.

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The Modern IT Leader

Chief Executive

The challenge for Steelcase and especially for Miller is how to provide this exceptional workspace flexibility with a user experience that is visually appealing, organized, navigable and enjoyable, from the second they click on the site through the order fulfillment. Steve Miller, CTO, Steelcase.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Let’s start by looking at where the service economy is right now and why it’s resisted a full scale transformation by software. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section. Five strategies for unlocking supply in regulated markets. Future opportunities.

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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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Intrapreneurial Pursuits: 11 CEOs On Bootstrapping Innovation In A Bumpy Economy

Chief Executive

But in doing so, company chiefs may be neglecting to unlock the considerable innovation engines that already exist right under their noses. But where you run into difficulties is scaling it into a business,” Binns says. Engineering firm. User-interface and user-experience software. COACH ’EM UP.

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

Andrew Chen

Or are you trying to scale its success? In the book, I describe stage-by-stage how to successfully start and scale the central forces that power tech’s most successful companies — network effects. When a company like Dropbox, Slack, or Uber hit scale, it might seem like network effects kick in, and the next phase is easy.

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