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by morganb180 12y ago
Related: http://info.activeintime.com/news/2014/10/8/say-hello-to-hea...
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by morganb180 12y ago
Just in time for iOS8 and Healthkit. Makes it super-easy to call and write to the TrueVault API natively within Xcode.
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by morganb180 12y ago
Just in time for iOS8 and Healthkit. Makes it much easier to build HIPAA compliant apps for iPhone/iPad.
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by morganb180 12y ago
I agree. That was the key takeaway from me. How the sustain growth over such a long period of time is amazing.
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by morganb180 12y ago
It's a valid point. The entire early growth team is gone and onto other ventures. It's probably very likely that the new growth team is facing increasing pressure to continue to grow, which can lead to overly aggressive tactics. I
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by morganb180 12y ago
I didn't, and to be honest, after going through 10+ years of interviews and articles to find the growth nuggets, I wasn't exactly looking for them. One thing, that I mentioned in the follow up comment, is that much of the early gr
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by morganb180 12y ago
Hey Guys, I wrote the post. Here's my take, after researching them for so long. LinkedIn is definitely aggressive with their growth tactics. From the endorsements product, which has some questionable value, to the gimmicks like the &qu
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by morganb180 12y ago
Lots of good discussion going on. Definitely swing by and drop a question if you have it about Healthkit.
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by morganb180 13y ago
This is awesome.
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by morganb180 13y ago
The question becomes: What about links from sites like HuffingtonPost, Forbes, and Medium?
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by morganb180 13y ago
His title should really be "The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO" because guest blogging is still relevant for traffic, awareness, thought leadership, reaching new audiences, etc. So while it may no longer a worthwhile SEO
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by morganb180 13y ago
Thousands of startups have been saying this _exact_ same thing for 10+ years in real estate. Out of all those that tried, only two have had major success. Why? Entrenched interests that don't want to give up control or data for fear of
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by morganb180 13y ago
Great list. And while not a blog, <shameless plug> GrowthHackers.com is like HN for growth knowledge. </shameless plug>
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Cracking the Code to GitHub’s Growth(growthhackers.com)
6 points by morganb180 13y ago|1 comments
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by morganb180 13y ago
The dual network + marketplace dynamic is amazing. They really took off in 2013.
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How A Football Coach Taught Me To Product Manage Like a Boss(medium.com)
2 points by morganb180 13y ago|0 comments
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by morganb180 13y ago
Dumb SEO != growth hacking What the author does get right, however, is that the need for growth puts a lot of pressure on a founding team and sometimes that pressure can push teams to take more risks than they should.
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by morganb180 13y ago
This is not "black hat" SEO. This is dumb SEO. Real black hats aren't so obvious/careless/thoughtless.
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by morganb180 13y ago
Facebook isn't their only problem. If Upworthy videos suddenly disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care? That's a bigger issue than Facebook.
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by morganb180 13y ago
The notification fatigue is going to set in. Not sure this is a sustainable growth lever.
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by morganb180 13y ago
Whether it lasts is another story—but their meteoric growth is definitely worth studying.
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by morganb180 13y ago
Really like this. Looking forward to using it.
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by morganb180 13y ago
This is fantastic. My dad and I would go around yelling this all the time when I was growing up.
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by morganb180 13y ago
Tough to get valid validation when the product your shipping doesn't solve the need for the end user due to its MVP-ness. If you deliver crap, it's hard to separate the feedback of "this is crap because it's missing xyz
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by morganb180 13y ago
Totally agree with this. If you're shipping something not remotely close to the product that actually solves the user's problem, then you're not shipping something that's viable. The danger is shipping a non-viable produ
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by morganb180 13y ago
This is so spot on. Asking questions is completely different than asking good questions. Conversion Rate Experts, who are pretty much the leaders in conversion rate optimization, talk about using questions to light up different areas of a u
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by morganb180 13y ago
You're right—read the thread too fast. What's more interesting to me, is how many of these so called "transactional" emails actually pass the test? More on that here: http://www.the-dma.org/press/Pri
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by morganb180 13y ago
I read the thread too fast. Transactional emails are excluded under CAN-SPAM. But there are many times that "transactional emails" going out contain marketing/commercial content. There's a test for those emails to see if
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by morganb180 13y ago
Edit: I missed the transactional part here. Transactional emails are excluded from CAN-SPAM. There's a test to figure out which is which: http://www.the-dma.org/press/PrimaryPurposeFactSheet.pdf It's shitty U
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by morganb180 13y ago
It's a fair point, but to be honest, I think if anyone is OK with an ad-supported product, it's teens. They're used to free services being supported by ads. They get the tradeoff. So I don't think the ads will drive them

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