Andy Young

Talk

Growth Lessons from the 500 Startups Distro Dojo

Distro Dojo is 500 Startups' growth marketing program for post-seed companies. In addition to providing growth-stage funding, Distro Dojos bring companies under the guidance of on-site mentors with world-class track records who train teams to operationalize and scale up their growth post product-market fit.

Dojos focus on “growth as a mindset”. Growth marketing isn’t a set of hacks (though those can be fun sometimes!) Scalable growth is a process of experimentation that builds growth into the structure of your organization itself.

Andy will share highlights from how 500 Startups teaches growth, focusing on actionable takeaways you'll be able to apply to your own businesses.

Unconference

Analytics for Startups

In recent years umpteen tools and platforms have arisen to assist with measuring and analysing your data, but it's all too easy to get stuck drowning under irrelevant information and fail to grasp the fundamentals of how your business is performing and can scale.

Based on his own startup experience and working with many tens of companies, Andy will share his top practical tips on how to measure your way to success.

About Andy Young

Andy is an Entrepreneur in Residence at 500 Startups, where he helps teams with growth, analytics and product. Previously Andy led the launch of Stripe in the UK, founded and grew membership management platform GroupSpaces to help thousands of group leaders manage over 5 million memberships, and created Selective Tweets - used by over 1 million people to cross-post between Twitter and Facebook. Andy likes building useful things, and using technology to help people.