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Sarah Tavel
Sarah is a partner at Benchmark where she focuses on investing in consumer and marketplace startups; previously, she was Pinterest's first product manager.
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Strategy4 steps
Happy GMV and Minimum Viable Happiness
Track only the GMV that produced a retained customer, and boil the thimble until it clears the bar
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Innovation4 steps
Markets as Currents, Not Bodies of Water
Chase the change dynamic pulling the market, not the size of the market
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Strategy5 steps
The Hierarchy of Engagement
Three stacked levels — core action, accruing benefits, self-perpetuation — that decide if a consumer product endures
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Entrepreneurship5 steps
The Hierarchy of Marketplaces
Focus, tip, dominate — the only sequence that produces a marketplace worth owning
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Strategy5 steps
The Tippability Test
Check supply fragmentation, supply heterogeneity and incumbent competition before you fund a marketplace
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Innovation4 steps
Three Ways to Find Marketplace Whitespace
Unbundle a low-NPS segment, own an ignored niche, or change the atomic unit of supply
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Marketing5 steps
Tipping Loops: Growth Loops and Happiness Loops
Two symbiotic loop types — one grows the marketplace, one keeps it happy as it grows
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Productivity4 steps
Top-Down / Bottoms-Up Core Action Analysis
Cross two analyses — return-propensity ranking and product purpose — to find the one action worth optimising
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