| How to break into Silicon Valley | andrewchen | 2024-02-26 |
| The “Dinner Party Jerk” test — why founders need to pitch themselves harder and more futuristically | andrewchen | 2024-02-12 |
| Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough | andrewchen | 2024-02-06 |
| Every time you ask the user to click you lose half | andrewchen | 2024-02-05 |
| Why the worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification | andrewchen | 2024-01-31 |
| The most expensive game cost over $1B, and how AI will transform it | andrewchen | 2024-01-23 |
| How to write more | andrewchen | 2024-01-15 |
| How to write a business book — behind the scenes from THE COLD START PROBLEM | andrewchen | 2024-01-15 |
| Fun graph from Peter Attia’s book Outlive | andrewchen | 2024-01-10 |
| Reforge Podcast: 2024 predictions, AI apps, the future of PM, what we can learn from gaming, and more | andrewchen | 2024-01-04 |
| Heading into 2024 – Life update, books, links, and more | andrewchen | 2024-01-03 |
| When AI is too verbose, full of repetition and says sorry for being an AI… | andrewchen | 2023-09-30 |
| How I use AI when blogging and writing | andrewchen | 2023-08-23 |
| Creator Economy 2.0: What we’ve learned, why it’s hard, and what’s next | andrewchen | 2023-08-21 |
| The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions | andrewchen | 2023-08-13 |
| What to do when product growth stalls | andrewchen | 2023-08-10 |
| One year after launching a16z Games Fund One – here’s the pitch deck | andrewchen | 2023-08-08 |
| How to design a referral program | andrewchen | 2022-08-08 |
| Personal updates: Moving to LA, a new role at a16z, and more! | andrewchen | 2022-07-31 |
| How to reinvent your product growth strategy for the tech downturn | andrewchen | 2022-07-25 |
| Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem | andrewchen | 2021-12-01 |
| I’m on the Tim Ferriss podcast — talking my new book, growth hacking, metaverse, creator economy, and more | andrewchen | 2021-11-30 |
| Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December | andrewchen | 2021-11-15 |
| Why the best way to drive viral growth to increase retention and engagement | andrewchen | 2021-11-03 |
| What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth | andrewchen | 2021-11-01 |
| Why premature scaling fails: The Traction Treadmill | andrewchen | 2021-09-02 |
| What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago | andrewchen | 2021-08-23 |
| The next generation of the SF and LA tech ecosystem | andrewchen | 2021-08-20 |
| My first book, The Cold Start Problem. Plus Clubhouse, and more. It’s 2021, and I’m back! | andrewchen | 2021-02-04 |
| The Adjacent User Theory | andrewchen | 2020-07-20 |
| My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more | andrewchen | 2020-01-09 |
| “Is your startup idea taken?” — and why we love X for Y startups | andrewchen | 2019-11-06 |
| The Passion Economy (Guest essay by Li Jin) | andrewchen | 2019-11-04 |
| 10 lessons from a serial entrepreneur – Justin Kan, Atrium, YC, and Twitch | andrewchen | 2019-07-25 |
| 28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb | andrewchen | 2019-06-25 |
| Why startups are hard — the math of venture capital returns tells the story | andrewchen | 2019-06-03 |
| The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis | andrewchen | 2019-05-28 |
| The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. | andrewchen | 2019-05-27 |
| Announcing Pietra and a16z — my first ex-Uber investment! | andrewchen | 2019-03-27 |
| What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A | andrewchen | 2019-03-18 |
| 2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included) | andrewchen | 2018-12-26 |
| Silicon Valley network effects, OKRs for your personal life, and more: Podcast Q&A with Product Hunt | andrewchen | 2018-12-13 |
| Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck) | andrewchen | 2018-12-10 |
| What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what. | andrewchen | 2018-11-26 |
| How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) | andrewchen | 2018-11-13 |
| The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included! | andrewchen | 2018-11-01 |
| a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise | andrewchen | 2018-09-24 |
| a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more | andrewchen | 2018-09-04 |
| Why “Uber for X” startups failed: The supply side is king | andrewchen | 2018-08-27 |
| The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users | andrewchen | 2018-08-06 |
| DAU/MAU is an important metric to measure engagement, but here’s where it fails | andrewchen | 2018-07-23 |
| Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays | andrewchen | 2018-07-10 |
| Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look | andrewchen | 2018-07-02 |
| The Startup Brand Fallacy: Why brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups | andrewchen | 2018-06-21 |
| The IRL channel: Offline to online, Online to offline | andrewchen | 2018-06-12 |
| How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing | andrewchen | 2018-06-04 |
| Podcast Q&A: Dropbox’s viral growth, Uber’s tricky funnels, and future growth channels | andrewchen | 2018-05-14 |
| Update: I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz! | andrewchen | 2018-02-15 |
| Hello 2018! Books, essays, and more from the past year. | andrewchen | 2018-01-31 |
| 10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned | andrewchen | 2017-12-18 |
| How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more | andrewchen | 2017-10-17 |
| Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why | andrewchen | 2017-07-19 |
| This year’s top essays on growth metrics, consumer psychology, Uber, push notifs, NPS, and more | andrewchen | 2017-07-10 |
| Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation | andrewchen | 2017-06-26 |
| Psych’d: A new user psychology framework for increasing funnel conversion (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2017-06-12 |
| Startups and big cos should approach growth differently (Video) | andrewchen | 2017-06-06 |
| The Bad Product Fallacy: Don’t confuse “I don’t like it” with “That’s a bad product and it’ll fail” | andrewchen | 2017-01-30 |
| What’s next in growth? | andrewchen | 2017-01-23 |
| 10 years in the Bay Area – what I’ve learned | andrewchen | 2017-01-03 |
| How To (Actually) Calculate CAC | andrewchen | 2016-12-20 |
| Growth Interview Questions from Atlassian, SurveyMonkey, Gusto and Hubspot (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2016-10-31 |
| What 671 million push notifications say about how people spend their day | andrewchen | 2016-05-16 |
| The state of growth hacking (Guest post) | andrewchen | 2016-03-21 |
| Growth is a system, not a bag of tricks – Manifesto Conference Q&A video/transcript | andrewchen | 2016-02-15 |
| A Practitioner’s Guide to Net Promoter Score | andrewchen | 2016-02-08 |
| Uber’s virtuous cycle. Geographic density, hyperlocal marketplaces, and why drivers are key | andrewchen | 2016-01-25 |
| My top 2015 essays on Uber, online dating, push notifications, Apple Watch, and more | andrewchen | 2016-01-05 |
| Personal update- I’m joining Uber! Here’s why | andrewchen | 2015-08-24 |
| This is the Product Death Cycle. Why it happens, and how to break out of it | andrewchen | 2015-06-16 |
| Quick update: Quoted in WSJ on dating apps, recent podcast interview, plus recent essays | andrewchen | 2015-06-11 |
| New data shows losing 80% of mobile users is normal, and why the best apps do better | andrewchen | 2015-06-09 |
| Photos of the women who programmed the ENIAC, wrote the code for Apollo 11, and designed the Mac | andrewchen | 2015-06-04 |
| The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product | andrewchen | 2015-06-01 |
| Why investors don’t fund dating | andrewchen | 2015-05-26 |
| Why we should aim to build a forever company, not just a unicorn | andrewchen | 2015-05-04 |
| Ten classic books that define tech | andrewchen | 2015-04-30 |
| How I first met Eric Ries and also why I’ve ordered his new Kickstarter-exclusive book The Leader’s Guide | andrewchen | 2015-04-07 |
| This is what free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like. Mockups, economics, and analysis. | andrewchen | 2015-03-30 |
| Personal update: I’ve moved to Oakland! Here’s why. | andrewchen | 2015-02-24 |
| The most common mistake when forecasting growth for new products (and how to fix it) | andrewchen | 2015-02-23 |
| The race for Apple Watch’s killer app | andrewchen | 2015-02-17 |
| My top essays in 2014 about mobile, growth, and tech | andrewchen | 2015-01-06 |
| Why messaging apps are so addictive (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-11-04 |
| IAC’s HowAboutWe co-founder: How to Avoid Delusional Thinking in Start-up Growth Strategy (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-10-13 |
| Mobile retention benchmarks for 2014 vs 2013 show a 50% drop in D1 retention (Guest post) | andrewchen | 2014-09-24 |
| New data on push notifications show up to 40% CTRs, the best perform 4X better than the worst (Guest post) | andrewchen | 2014-09-16 |
| Why Android desperately needs a billion dollar success story: The best new apps are all going iPhone-first | andrewchen | 2014-08-27 |
| Early Traction: How to go from zero to 150,000 email subscribers (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-08-14 |
| New data shows up to 60% of users opt-out of push notifications (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-08-06 |
| Why aren’t App Constellations working? (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-08-04 |
| There’s only a few ways to scale user growth, and here’s the list | andrewchen | 2014-07-08 |
| Lessons learned adding messaging to a notes app (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-07-01 |
| Retention is King (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2014-06-03 |
| Why consumer product metrics are all terrible | andrewchen | 2014-05-13 |
| How to solve the cold-start problem for social products | andrewchen | 2014-03-27 |
| How to design successful social products with 3 habit-forming feedback loops | andrewchen | 2014-03-17 |
| Congrats to my sis Ada Chen, who’s joining SurveyMonkey as VP Marketing | andrewchen | 2014-02-26 |
| How to make content creation easy: Short-form, ephemeral, mobile, and now, anonymous | andrewchen | 2014-02-10 |
| My 2013 essays on mobile, startups, and tech | andrewchen | 2014-01-02 |
| When a great product hits the funding crunch | andrewchen | 2013-11-05 |
| A clever way to buy Facebook ads based on what your users like (Guest post) | andrewchen | 2013-10-28 |
| Use this spreadsheet for churn, MRR, and cohort analysis (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-10-24 |
| Zero to Product/Market Fit (Presentation) | andrewchen | 2013-10-14 |
| The Rise of Fat Venture Capital | andrewchen | 2013-10-09 |
| How Google and Zynga set & achieve meaningful OKRs (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-10-01 |
| Case studies from “Why you can’t find a technical co-founder” | andrewchen | 2013-09-25 |
| Easter Egg Marketing: How Snapchat, Apple, and Google Hook You | andrewchen | 2013-09-17 |
| How is Yahoo really doing? Here’s the Google Trends data (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-09-09 |
| Ignore PR and buzz, use Google Trends to assess traction instead | andrewchen | 2013-09-03 |
| Books I’m reading (2013) | andrewchen | 2013-08-26 |
| Constrained media: How disappearing photos, 6 second videos, and 140 characters are conquering the world | andrewchen | 2013-08-05 |
| The highest ROI way to increase signups: Make a minimal homepage (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-07-29 |
| 9 ways a billion dollar new mobile company might be created (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-07-17 |
| Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier. Here’s why. | andrewchen | 2013-07-09 |
| Why you can’t find a technical co-founder (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-06-25 |
| How to grow your app revenue with DuPont analysis (Guest post) | andrewchen | 2013-06-17 |
| New college grads: Don’t sell your time for a living | andrewchen | 2013-06-03 |
| Does your product suck? Stop adding new features and “zoom in” instead | andrewchen | 2013-05-16 |
| Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, Hotmail, Blogger, Apple: How they used to look | andrewchen | 2013-05-13 |
| The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business (Guest post by Lars Lofgren of KISSmetrics) | andrewchen | 2013-05-06 |
| The death of RSS in a single graph | andrewchen | 2013-04-29 |
| Featured essays from 2011-2013: Facebook, Growth Hacking, Mobile, and more. | andrewchen | 2013-04-23 |
| Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform | andrewchen | 2013-04-22 |
| RSS, I quit you. Please subscribe to email updates for this blog instead. | andrewchen | 2013-04-15 |
| How this blog grows: Evergreen content, Social whales, and “Don’t get bored” | andrewchen | 2013-04-11 |
| Why are we so bad at predicting startup success? | andrewchen | 2013-04-08 |
| My Quora answer to: How do you find insights like Facebook’s “7 friends in 10 days” to grow your product faster? | andrewchen | 2013-04-08 |
| I got a startup pitch via Snapchat, here’s the story | andrewchen | 2013-04-06 |
| Social products win with utility, not invites (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-03-25 |
| Minimize your Time to Product/Market Fit | andrewchen | 2013-03-11 |
| I’m a Google Glass skeptic and think it’ll be the next Apple Newton | andrewchen | 2013-03-06 |
| Rational Growth (PDF): An intro to growing user signups via data and analytical thinking | andrewchen | 2013-02-26 |
| 3 common email marketing failures (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2013-02-12 |
| Why it’s hard to evaluate new social products | andrewchen | 2013-02-05 |
| Confessions of a Startup Seagull | andrewchen | 2013-01-14 |
| Retention causes virality, and vice versa | andrewchen | 2012-12-19 |
| Why good design and open design often conflict | andrewchen | 2012-11-03 |
| Polite growth | andrewchen | 2012-10-24 |
| Retention versus frequency for mobile product categories | andrewchen | 2012-10-22 |
| How to write good and bad titles for your blog post | andrewchen | 2012-10-15 |
| Blog posts I don’t want to write | andrewchen | 2012-10-15 |
| SaaS products aren’t viral (preso) | andrewchen | 2012-10-12 |
| Is your market actually big? Or is it a fake market? | andrewchen | 2012-10-08 |
| My friend Noah and his $100M lesson after being fired from Facebook | andrewchen | 2012-10-04 |
| Career Suicide versus Startup Suicide | andrewchen | 2012-10-03 |
| Design & Thinking: A film about design thinking at PAIFF | andrewchen | 2012-09-28 |
| You don’t need a growth hacker | andrewchen | 2012-09-17 |
| After the Techcrunch bump: Life in the “Trough of Sorrow” | andrewchen | 2012-09-10 |
| How mobile startups can iterate better, faster, stronger | andrewchen | 2012-08-29 |
| How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? | andrewchen | 2012-08-20 |
| Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 | andrewchen | 2012-08-15 |
| Why companies should have Product Editors, not Product Managers | andrewchen | 2012-08-10 |
| Don’t just design your product, design your community too | andrewchen | 2012-08-10 |
| What factors influence DAU/MAU? Nature versus nurture | andrewchen | 2012-08-06 |
| No, you don’t need a real-time data dashboard by Mike Greenfield | andrewchen | 2012-07-23 |
| Pitch the future while building for now | andrewchen | 2012-07-18 |
| Strive for great products, whether by copying, inventing, or reinventing | andrewchen | 2012-07-17 |
| How do I balance user satisfaction versus virality? | andrewchen | 2012-07-07 |
| What does a growth team work on day-to-day? | andrewchen | 2012-07-02 |
| Apple’s Minimum Viable Product | andrewchen | 2012-06-22 |
| Quora: When does high growth not imply product/market fit? | andrewchen | 2012-06-20 |
| War of the platforms: Facebook, Apple, Android, Twitter. | andrewchen | 2012-06-18 |
| Stop asking “But how will they make money?” | andrewchen | 2012-05-30 |
| Know the difference between data-informed and versus data-driven | andrewchen | 2012-05-29 |
| What makes Sequoia Capital successful? “Target big markets” | andrewchen | 2012-05-24 |
| How to use Twitter to predict popular blog posts you should write | andrewchen | 2012-05-16 |
| Quora: Has Facebook’s DAU/MAU always been ~50%? | andrewchen | 2012-05-16 |
| How do I learn to be a growth hacker? Work for one of these guys :) | andrewchen | 2012-05-11 |
| Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing | andrewchen | 2012-04-27 |
| Google+ and the curse of instant distribution | andrewchen | 2012-04-11 |
| The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs | andrewchen | 2012-04-05 |
| Visual Basic, PHP, Rails. Is Node.js next? | andrewchen | 2012-04-01 |
| Quora: Will CPE (Cost Per Engagement) advertising ever take off? | andrewchen | 2012-03-22 |
| Why I doubted Facebook could build a billion dollar business, and what I learned from being horribly wrong | andrewchen | 2012-03-14 |
| How sheep-like behavior breeds innovation in Silicon Valley | andrewchen | 2012-03-08 |
| Top tweets recently on startups, tech, and more | andrewchen | 2012-03-06 |
| Ask me anything! | andrewchen | 2012-03-03 |
| Why you’ll always think your product is shit | andrewchen | 2012-03-02 |
| Linkedin acquires Connected – congrats to my sister Ada! | andrewchen | 2011-10-05 |
| 20+ pitches from the new 500Startups cos | andrewchen | 2011-08-18 |
| Don’t compete on features | andrewchen | 2011-07-11 |
| Quora: What UX considerations were built into Google+? | andrewchen | 2011-07-09 |
| Simple is Marketable | andrewchen | 2011-07-08 |
| How to use A/B testing for better product design | andrewchen | 2011-07-06 |
| VIDEO: The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup by Naval of AngelList | andrewchen | 2011-06-21 |
| Does anyone care about your new product? (Doing market research with Google’s Keyword Tool) | andrewchen | 2011-06-14 |
| “Anyone can start a Groupon!” and other startup myths | andrewchen | 2011-06-03 |
| When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups? | andrewchen | 2011-06-01 |
| Why it’s smart for consumer startups to grow first and make money later | andrewchen | 2011-05-28 |
| When has a consumer startup hit product/market fit? | andrewchen | 2011-05-28 |
| Designing for distribution with Eric+Eric (YC 2011, Mochi Media) | andrewchen | 2011-05-23 |
| 2011 Blogging Roadmap: “Zero to product/market fit” | andrewchen | 2011-05-22 |
| Metrics Driven Design slides from SXSW, by Joshua Porter | andrewchen | 2011-03-15 |
| Question: What kind of blog do you prefer me to write? | andrewchen | 2011-03-15 |
| Quora: How did MySpace, with a smart team of people, do such a bad UI/UX job with the new design? | andrewchen | 2011-03-15 |
| Quora: What are the best metrics for measuring user engagement? | andrewchen | 2011-02-26 |
| Quora: What is considered a significant number of users for a free consumer internet product? | andrewchen | 2011-02-26 |
| Stanford CS major seeks sales/marketing monkey | andrewchen | 2011-02-05 |
| Bonus stats: Instagram up 40% in Jan, 300k MAU, 35k DAU (lower bound estimate based on Facebook app activity) | andrewchen | 2011-01-28 |
| Quora stats: 150% growth in January, 160k monthly actives, 18k daily actives (lower bound estimate via Facebook app data) | andrewchen | 2011-01-28 |
| Retention metrics roundup of articles and links | andrewchen | 2011-01-26 |
| Minimum Desirable Product and Lean Startups (slides included!) | andrewchen | 2010-04-07 |
| Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23 | andrewchen | 2010-04-07 |
| Notes on customer acquisition and viral marketing from First Round Capital CEO Summit | andrewchen | 2010-01-31 |
| Congrats to my friends at Mochi Media, especially my little sister Ada! | andrewchen | 2010-01-11 |
| What I’m reading: Interaction design, Riddles, and more | andrewchen | 2010-01-04 |
| Top posts for 2009: Freemium, Design, and Metrics | andrewchen | 2010-01-03 |
| A newer, bluer, real-time Google | andrewchen | 2009-12-26 |
| My quickie review of the Fitbit | andrewchen | 2009-12-11 |
| Minimum Desirable Product | andrewchen | 2009-12-07 |
| Why the iPod Touch is more strategic than the iPhone for Apple | andrewchen | 2009-12-06 |
| Update on the Steve Jobs post from an Apple alum (Updated again!) | andrewchen | 2009-12-04 |
| Does every startup need a Steve Jobs? | andrewchen | 2009-12-04 |
| Checking out new mailing list on Lean Startups | andrewchen | 2009-11-26 |
| Product design debt versus Technical debt | andrewchen | 2009-11-25 |
| Adding design to an agile development process | andrewchen | 2009-11-23 |
| The question that got me to leave Seattle for greener startup pastures | andrewchen | 2009-11-23 |
| Why my blogging has sucked lately :) | andrewchen | 2009-11-23 |
| What I’m reading: Viral Loop by Adam Penenberg | andrewchen | 2009-11-07 |
| Are social gaming offers scamming users? A detailed analysis of Techcrunch’s Scamville article | andrewchen | 2009-11-02 |
| How Facebook could clean up the offers industry | andrewchen | 2009-11-01 |
| How social gaming offers create value for everyone (not just Facebook, Zynga, and Offerpal) | andrewchen | 2009-11-01 |
| Building lifestyle companies versus VC-backable startups: Is it walk before you run? | andrewchen | 2009-10-27 |
| How helpful is venture capital experience to building startups? | andrewchen | 2009-10-27 |
| Ignore Cougars, Follow the Money: 3 social gaming tips for monetizing younger users | andrewchen | 2009-10-05 |
| 5 crucial stages in designing your viral loop | andrewchen | 2009-09-23 |
| Age (and ARPPU) ain’t nothing but a number: Data on how age impacts social gaming monetization | andrewchen | 2009-09-22 |
| Whenever ad networks talk about their “targeting” remember the Netflix prize | andrewchen | 2009-09-21 |
| How to keep visual design consistent while A/B testing like crazy | andrewchen | 2009-09-21 |
| Netflix on their Freedom and Responsibility culture | andrewchen | 2009-09-20 |
| Why low-fidelity prototyping kicks butt for customer-driven design | andrewchen | 2009-09-15 |
| Building the initial team for seed stage startups | andrewchen | 2009-09-14 |
| BBS door games: Social Gaming innovation from the 1980s | andrewchen | 2009-08-25 |
| How desktop apps beat websites at building large active userbases | andrewchen | 2009-08-24 |
| iLike, Lookery, Google Voice: Recent platform lessons from app developers | andrewchen | 2009-08-22 |
| To my first 10,000 blog subscribers: Thank you! | andrewchen | 2009-08-19 |
| What if interviews poorly predict job performance? What if dating poorly predicts marital happiness? | andrewchen | 2009-07-28 |
| Does Silicon Valley noise detract from long-term value creation? | andrewchen | 2009-07-27 |
| Social design explosion: Polls, quizzes, reviews, forums, chat, blogs, videos, comments, oh my! | andrewchen | 2009-07-20 |
| Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO, and 37signals build failure-tolerant systems for anything! | andrewchen | 2009-07-13 |
| Dear readers, should I keep the automatic weekly Twitter links? | andrewchen | 2009-06-27 |
| Why metrics-driven startups overlook brand value | andrewchen | 2009-06-18 |
| Why you should make it easy for users to quit your product | andrewchen | 2009-06-15 |
| Benefit-Driven Metrics: Measure the lives you save, not the life preservers you sell | andrewchen | 2009-06-11 |
| Creating value versus optimizing revenue | andrewchen | 2009-06-10 |
| How do you do concrete interviews for non-technical people? | andrewchen | 2009-05-18 |
| I want more tools to reach my readers, not monetize them! | andrewchen | 2009-05-17 |
| Dear readers, I need your help! | andrewchen | 2009-05-05 |
| Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps | andrewchen | 2009-05-04 |
| Bay Area investors I’m following on Twitter | andrewchen | 2009-04-27 |
| 3 key ideas from a recent Freemium dinner conversation | andrewchen | 2009-04-20 |
| “Stealing MySpace” and my personal experience monetizing MySpace ads | andrewchen | 2009-04-14 |
| Designing and Testing an Ad Product: 5 lessons learned form imeem’s audio ads (Guest Post) | andrewchen | 2009-04-14 |
| Will social payment platforms really work long-term? (Guest post by Jay Weintraub) | andrewchen | 2009-04-13 |
| Video: Panel on “Monetization and Business Models for Flash Games” | andrewchen | 2009-03-23 |
| Friends versus Followers: Twitter’s elegant design for grouping contacts | andrewchen | 2009-03-16 |
| Random links for week of March 16th | andrewchen | 2009-03-15 |
| App monetization: Gambit launches, funnel metrics, and ARPU vs “CPM” | andrewchen | 2009-03-11 |
| Free to Freemium: 5 lessons learned from YouSendIt.com | andrewchen | 2009-03-09 |
| Twitter links for March 4, 2009 | andrewchen | 2009-03-04 |
| Bay Area entrepreneurs that I’m following on Twitter | andrewchen | 2009-03-03 |
| 5 warning signs: Does A/B testing lead to crappy products? | andrewchen | 2009-03-02 |
| Which startup’s collapse will end the Web 2.0 era? | andrewchen | 2009-02-23 |
| 10% off for Flash Gaming Summit, March 22nd in San Francisco | andrewchen | 2009-02-22 |
| Warren Buffett’s bio “The Snowball” and lessons for startups | andrewchen | 2009-02-22 |
| Returning from my blogging vacation + Twitter links | andrewchen | 2009-02-22 |
| Great iPhone preso on AppStore retention curves, pricing strategies, engagement metrics, etc. | andrewchen | 2009-02-19 |
| How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!) | andrewchen | 2009-01-19 |
| Twitter links for Jan 19, 2009 | andrewchen | 2009-01-19 |
| 2009 conference schedule for the digital media industry | andrewchen | 2009-01-05 |
| Will be in Seattle on Jan 8th and 9th | andrewchen | 2009-01-03 |
| Freemium business model case study: AdultFriendFinder ARPU, churn, and conversion rates | andrewchen | 2008-12-29 |
| Twitter links (while still on blog vacation!) | andrewchen | 2008-12-18 |
| Taking a quick blog vacation… | andrewchen | 2008-12-01 |
| Video up from Virtual Goods Summit, Metrics for Virtual Goods Businesses: The Whirled Case Study | andrewchen | 2008-11-17 |
| How to calculate cost-per-acquisition for startups relying on freemium, subscription, or virtual items biz models | andrewchen | 2008-11-17 |
| Amazon Associates stats for this blog | andrewchen | 2008-11-17 |
| The Secret History of Silicon Valley (next Thurs, Nov 20) | andrewchen | 2008-11-11 |
| List of essays from this blog is now up to date! | andrewchen | 2008-11-11 |
| Twitter links from last week (posted 11/09/2008) | andrewchen | 2008-11-10 |
| Usability presentation for iPhone apps and store | andrewchen | 2008-11-10 |
| Poll results are in – what YOU want to read on this blog, revealed! | andrewchen | 2008-11-10 |
| What would Facebook look like if it sold out to ads? Click here to see… | andrewchen | 2008-11-04 |
| What topics do you want to read more about on this blog? | andrewchen | 2008-11-03 |
| Ad-based versus direct monetization: Which one is better for you? | andrewchen | 2008-11-03 |
| Ad rates drop in social networks, music, entertainment | andrewchen | 2008-11-03 |
| Amazing presentation on leadgen tactics from Jay Weintraub | andrewchen | 2008-10-31 |
| Slate on split testing in the McCain and Obama campaign (robo-calling versus text messaging) | andrewchen | 2008-10-29 |
| Links from my Twitter (Oct 29, 2008) | andrewchen | 2008-10-29 |
| How to generate awesome test candidates for A/B testing | andrewchen | 2008-10-27 |