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The Cold Start Problem
A book about how to start and scale network effects
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The Cold Start Problem - A book about how to start and scale network effects
Based on 100s of interviews with founding teams at Twitch, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and many more, Andrew Chen explores how tech’s most successful companies solved the dreaded "cold start problem” using network effects to launch and scale.
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