User Retention and Growth
Good user retention is key for any startup. Here I'll collect the best articles on retention and growth that will give you a good understanding of the concept.
Collection by Dominik Grolimund
A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
“The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit… Product-market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.” Marc Andreessen wrote these words back in…
Duolingo's User Retention: 8 Tactics Tested On 300 Million Users
Discover Duolingo's top 8 user retention tactics (and the psychology behind them), as well as behind-the-scenes stats and facts to help your product.
How I Survived Insane Hypergrowth at Airbnb
As I reflect on my time as Director of Product at Airbnb, I already feel a sense of nostalgia. I get another emotion, though, when I…
What does product-market fit feel like?
Without you having to try too hard, customers should be showing up to buy your product.
How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. And just about every…
Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit — Holloway
An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital
Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops
While at Pinterest and Grubhub, Casey Winters relied on content loops, an overlooked path to growth. Now a scaling advisor to companies such as Eventbrite and Reddit, he shares a 5-step process and…
Markets Are 10X Bigger Than Ever
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now re...
Frameworks for Product Success
For a product to succeed over a long period of time, several conditions must be present: product-market fit, positive unit economics, and…
The most important growth metric for early startups
For most early startups, I think the most important metric to understand and attempt to grow is cohort retention rate.
The Psychology of Startup Growth
Growth is not a one-time gimmick. To get 1000% growth, there is no silver bullet. Growth comes from adopting the right psychology. From an approach you bring to your daily work consistently for years.
