16. • Bad retention?
• no product/market fit
• Retention comes from having a great idea, and a
great product to back up that idea, and great
product market fit
• Hard to improve
19. • Set your own metrics
• Facebook: MAU
• Whatsapp: Messages sent
• Airbnb: Nights booked
• Reflecting your core business
• With the most used features
20. • Magic Moment (Ah-ha Moment)
• Facebook: See your friends
• 10 friends in 14 days
• Airbnb/ebay: Finding unique items / Get paid for the
sellers
• Redefine the flow
• One or two flows that matter
• Ex: Twitter
24. • User Accounting?
• Resurrect users
• New users
• Churn users
• Asking power users to do the work
• Virality
• k-factor
• payload / frequency / conversion rate
26. • Intuition vs Science
• North star vs Tactics
• changed vs unchanged
• “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going
to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a
very interesting question; it’s a very common one.
I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going
to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to
you that that second question is actually the
more important of the two…” - Jeff Bezos
28. • Growth
• Retention
• Operating of Growth
• North star
• Magic moment
• Tactics
29. • How to start a startup: Growth
• http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec06/
• 3 growth hacks
• http://www.slideshare.net/GrowConf/3-growth-hacks-the-secrets-
to-driving-massive-user-growth-josh-elman-greylock
• Much more …
• http://andrewchen.co/
• http://growthhackers.com/