9 Best Articles in 2021
Ahrefs
Growth Hacking Tactics That Every Startup Needs To Know
Ahrefs
~13 min read · From 2015 · A complete, actionable list of growth hacking tactics you can use to supercharge the growth of your business and build your user base. FAST.
Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Lenny Rachitsky
~16 min read · 2020-05-12 · Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent…
First Round
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
First Round
~20 min read · From 2018 · Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring…
First Round
From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy
First Round
~14 min read · From 2015 · “HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”
quicksprout.com
The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking
quicksprout.com
7 min read · From 2015 · There is a revolution taking place in the world of startup growth, and we wanted to help people understand this new phenomenon. Those who understand growth hacking will have a competitive advantage that is hard to overstate, and we wanted to provide a robust framework for thinking about it.
medium.com
Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs — Growth Hacking, Marketing and Venture Capital
medium.com
5 min read · From 2015 · The framework VCs use
a16z
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
a16z
~12 min read · 2019-07-29 · Some network effects (when a network gains more value to its users as more people participate in its platform) don’t show up in the usual metrics. Their hidden nature makes them hard to measure – but they can confer significant long-term competitive advantages. In an insightful article for A16Z.com, D’Arcy Coolican – an Andreessen Horowitz partner and a co-founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Frank – shines a light on hidden networks, giving useful guidelines for identifying when they’re at work.
Mashable
Growth hacking: Strategies and techniques from marketing’s 25 most influential leaders
Mashable
~16 min read · From 2017 · Learn from the best.
Product Hunt 😸
How to Launch on Product Hunt 🚀
Product Hunt 😸
20+ min read · From 2017 · There are dozens of different articles and posts, each promising to be the “Ultimate Guide to launching on Product Hunt.” While the…
