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Andrew Chen • Downloads at andrewchen
Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
Come for the tool, stay for the network”
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Andrew Chen’s blog Futuristic Play is one of the best sources for thoughts on viral marketing, startup metrics, and design: http://andrewchenblog.com/
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Andrew Chen • How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen
As a rough benchmark for evaluating startups at Andreessen Horowitz, I often look for a minimum baseline of 60 percent retention after day 1, 30 percent after day 7, and 15 percent at day 30, where the curve eventually levels
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Predating Uber, I had written and published nearly a thousand essays on topics like user growth, metrics, viral marketing—along the way, popularizing tech industry jargon like “growth hacking” and “viral loops.”
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
#550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats
podcasts.apple.comThese companies pioneered a new style of “bottom-up” growth, where individual contributors seeded a product’s adoption within a customer company.