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by seanellis 10y ago
It's best to learn through practice. If you're working on a web business, define a growth objective and use your development skills (AKA problem solving skills) to achieve it. So a good example would be to try to improve new use
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by seanellis 12y ago
Love it!
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by seanellis 12y ago
Why would you say it's scummy? Growth hackers is a group of marketers that are passionate about sharing and discussing great content on ethical drivers of sustainable growth like this deck. Based on the discussion on GH, everyone in t
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by seanellis 12y ago
I use KISSmetrics to measure retention. Their cohort reports are great.
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by seanellis 13y ago
I am largely to blame for the recent tirade against “growth hacking.” I’ve let the term be bastardized and redefined a lot since my original blog post on it back in 2010 http://www.startup-marketing.com/where-are-all-the-gro
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by seanellis 13y ago
GitHub's growth has always fascinated me. This article cleared up a lot of questions.
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by seanellis 13y ago
20X revenue would be a really high valuation even for a SaaS business. 6-10X would be more likely in the long run.
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by seanellis 13y ago
This is my comment from the end of the article: I respect Chamath a lot for all his growth accomplishments. But in an article that says “he has cracked the code for making startups grow” he is quoted as saying “all this growth hacking stuf
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VC Chamath Palihapitiya Says He Has Cracked the Code for Making Startups Grow(allthingsd.com)
8 points by seanellis 13y ago|4 comments
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by seanellis 13y ago
It's surprising that natural word of mouth is so much more important than some kind of invite trigger.
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by seanellis 13y ago
Asked followers who enjoyed the article to help it get discovered on Hacker News. Removed tweet. OP
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Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine?(growthhackers.com)
13 points by seanellis 13y ago|5 comments
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How to grow a network effect startup - lessons from Belly Card(growthhackers.com)
6 points by seanellis 13y ago|3 comments
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How a Little Nudge Increased Email Subscribership 500%(blog.kissmetrics.com)
7 points by seanellis 13y ago|2 comments
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Costly CRO Mistakes To Avoid(thefuturebuzz.com)
1 points by seanellis 13y ago|0 comments
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This is How Square is growing so quickly(growthhackers.com)
6 points by seanellis 13y ago|2 comments
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by seanellis 13y ago
Thanks for suggestion. All that info is below fold. Agree it would help show depth to move it up.
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by seanellis 13y ago
Thanks Cosmie, most of the credit on content goes to Morgan Brown. I worked hard to find ways to improve it and couldn't come up with any.
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by seanellis 16y ago
Great introduction to customer development that all startup founders should read (along with Four Steps to the Epiphany).
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by seanellis 16y ago
You said it much better than I did. Totally agree.
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by seanellis 16y ago
Fun might be the wrong word. My key point is that you'll be more productive and effective if you are loose and enjoying the process.
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by seanellis 16y ago
Solving customer needs takes creativity. If you are having fun, you are more creative.
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by seanellis 16y ago
Good point. Still the critical point of the article is that obsessing on getting rich is more likely to lead to failure. Staying loose and having fun is more conducive to creatively solving customer needs. Solve customer needs and you'll
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by seanellis 17y ago
I actually model allowable acquisition cost on expected first year average revenue per user (less any marginal service costs like bandwidth or storage). The key variables are % of users that have a transaction and the average transaction s