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Harry Stebbings
20 Sales: Asana's Former CRO, Oliver Jay on How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook,…
Harry Stebbings
2 min read · Jun 13th · Oliver Jay (OJ) is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade having spent 6 years at Asana as Asana's first revenue leader.
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GrowthHackers
The dos and don’ts of measuring activation
GrowthHackers
Jun 14th · Working on user activation only makes sense after achieving product/market fit. If a product doesn’t add enough value to convince the user to change the way they solve a problem, then even a perfec...
OpenView
Efficient Growth Marketing Just Got Cool Again
OpenView
4 min read · Jun 10th · MJ Peters, VP of Marketing, shares her approach to utilizing growth marketing to help SaaS startups efficiently expand in market uncertainty.
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OpenView
Metrics, Steady Growth, What’s Next for PLG: Product Benchmarks 2022
OpenView
3 min read · Jun 10th · We are back with our third annual Product Benchmarks report, which enables SaaS companies to see how they stack up against their peers.
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First Round
Product Hunt is Everywhere — This is How It Got There
First Round
~19 min read · Jun 17th · Two years ago, Product Hunt didn't exist. Now it's the toast of the town. In this exclusive article, Found Ryan Hoover tracks its ascent.
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ProductLed
How To Determine The Best Product-Led Model For Your Users In 7-Steps
ProductLed
~15 min read · Jun 15th · Find the perfect product-led model for your business with our 7-step framework called the Bedrock Method to build a solid foundation.
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gopractice.io
User activation is one of the key levers for product growth
gopractice.io
5 min read · May 25th · 100% of new users are exposed to the activation process. No other part of the product is as impactful on how users will perceive your service. Users come to you believing that your product can make…
gopractice.io
Designing product experiments: template and examples
gopractice.io
6 min read · May 24th · Teams that don’t use experiments usually think they know their product, its users, and what they should do to achieve their intended results. In contrast, teams that use experiments acknowledge that…
GrowthHackers
Solving retention with loops
GrowthHackers
20+ min read · Jun 7th · Is your growth problem actually a retention problem?
GrowthHackers
This is How You Should Kick-Off a New Growth Hacking Project
GrowthHackers
~19 min read · Jun 3rd · A chapter from ‘Growing Happy Clients’
demandcurve.com
What Is Growth Hacking? A Framework for Growth
demandcurve.com
10 min read · Jun 16th
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ProductLed
Product-Led Growth Benchmarks 2022
ProductLed
4 min read · Jun 20th · How do your PLG company stack up compared to 600+ SaaS businesses? Check out the 2022 Product-Led Growth benchmarks.
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Reforge
What Reforge’s Industry Partners Are Thinking About in 2022
Reforge
9 min read · May 28th · So far, 2022 can best be characterized by uncertainty. That’s why we asked three industry leaders — true innovators from growth, marketing, and product — about the biggest questions they have in their…
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gopractice.io
The dos and don’ts of measuring activation
gopractice.io
5 min read · Jun 11th · Working on user activation only makes sense after achieving product/market fit. If a product doesn't add enough value to convince the user to change the way they solve a problem, then even a perfect…
NFX
Introducing Network Effect #16: Hub-and-Spoke
NFX
~13 min read · Jun 11th · At NFX we study network effects in the wild so we can help founders build them better. Sometimes it takes us a while to notice the pattern, but we now have another one. Meet the 16th Network Effect on…
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wepullthetrigger.com
timfelmingham.com
UpViral Case Study: 1,057 leads in 7 days with £5 ad spend
timfelmingham.com
10 min read · Jun 21st · Case Study: How to use free viral giveaway contests to generate targeted new leads at an almost unbelieveable rate, and very low cost, with UpViral.
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eugeneyan.com
What I Wish I Knew About Onboarding Effectively
eugeneyan.com
8 min read · May 28th · Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
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gopractice.io
Metrics to focus on before and after product/market fit. How to better understand your product at different…
gopractice.io
10 min read · Jun 7th · Product/market fit is the make-or-break factor for a company. It helps businesses understand whether their product has market appeal and they can dive into the product growth stage with confidence. We…
Reader View · Shared by 119, including Christo Meid, Marc Gasser
CXL
Upselling and Cross-selling: 8 Examples and Why They Work
CXL
9 min read · Jun 16th · Check out these 6 examples of effective upselling and why they work. Increase your AOV with these upselling tips.
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CXL
Upselling and Cross-selling: 8 Examples and Why They Work
CXL
9 min read · Jun 16th · Check out these 6 examples of effective upselling and why they work. Increase your AOV with these upselling tips.
Reader View · Shared by 181, including Michael Kolade
Growth.Design
Google: How to increase feature adoption the right way
Growth.Design
Jun 8th · This case study shows you Google's feature adoption strategy. Learn how to maximize new product releases with these 5 key principles.
Shared by 139, including Oliver Raduner
ProductLed
How to Master Product Virality
ProductLed
5 min read · Jun 13th · Most SaaS businesses strive for $0 CAC, but how do you accomplish this feat? This article will show you how. Learn more here.
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gopractice.io
Metrics to focus on before and after product/market fit. How to better understand your product at different…
gopractice.io
10 min read · Jun 7th · Product/market fit is the make-or-break factor for a company. It helps businesses understand whether their product has market appeal and they can dive into the product growth stage with confidence. We…
Reader View · Shared by 119, including Christo Meid, Marc Gasser
wepullthetrigger.com
timfelmingham.com
UpViral Case Study: 1,057 leads in 7 days with £5 ad spend
timfelmingham.com
10 min read · Jun 21st · Case Study: How to use free viral giveaway contests to generate targeted new leads at an almost unbelieveable rate, and very low cost, with UpViral.
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medium.com
The Importance of CAC Payback in Today’s Market Environment
medium.com
~11 min read · Jun 14th · In today’s environment, CAC payback has huge implications on a company’s ability to scale efficiently. Cash efficiency is king!
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demandcurve.com
Zapier Landing Page Teardown
demandcurve.com
Jun 17th · See how Zapier uses familiarity and visuals to quickly establish an "aha moment" for its website visitors.
GrowthHackers
When to Hustle Around Obstacles vs Building Your Growth Foundations
GrowthHackers
~13 min read · May 26th · Going too fast can be just as big a problem as going too slow
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demandcurve.com
What Is Growth Hacking? A Framework for Growth
demandcurve.com
10 min read · Jun 16th
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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.
Reader View · Shared by 900, including Daniel Stefanovic, Chris Messina, Moritz Meenen, Peter Hogenkamp, Courtney Bolton ★, Bram Kanstein, Glenn Oberholzer, L. Taylor Banks, Matthias Sala, Herbert Bay, Rodrigo Prior, Shawn Venasse, Brent Summers, Thomas Power, Casey Smith, Raul Tiru 🌎, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC, designshard, Parin Vachhani, Sara Usinger
longform.asmartbear.com
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
longform.asmartbear.com
20+ min read · Mar 6th · Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for “viral” products like Facebook and Slack. If you have an…
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Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Lenny Rachitsky
~16 min read · From 2020 · 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…
Reader View · Shared by 793, including Bri Kimmel, Florian Graillot, Thomas Power, Brent Beshore, Johannes Lenz, Ben Tossell, Ryan Hoover, Niti Shree, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Jonathan Kogan, Brian Halligan, Bryce Roberts, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Version One Ventures, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Ha Duong, Amy Jo Kim, Chris Isak , scott belsky
Indie Hackers
I never had money to scale startups so I learned 5 principles for growth hacking startups with…
Indie Hackers
2 min read · May 10th · 1. Spend 10% of your time on high-risk, high-reward activities. Ask: which action requires least input and will bring me the highest output? Go through...
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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…
Reader View · Shared by 615, including Teresa Torres, Marty Cagan, Satya Patel, Charlene Li, Niti Shree, Peter Hogenkamp, Leo Polovets, Max Stoiber, TK Kader, Thomas Power, Ben Tossell, Howard L Morgan, Tiago Forte, dcancel.eth, Gianluca Diegoli, Peter Kazanjy, Mark Kaigwa, hiten.eth, Bill Trenchard, Bryan Harris
First Round
The Tactical Guide to Making Better Decisions When Starting and Scaling Companies
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 5th · The First Round team has been lucky to work with retired poker player and decision-making expert Annie Duke in a special capacity these past few years. Here, we open-source some of the advice she…
Reader View · Shared by 574, including Josh Kopelman, Arturo Rebolledo, Howard L Morgan
GrowthHackers
Your growth strategy should align with your company's strategy
GrowthHackers
5 min read · May 20th · In the same way that there's no single industry in which growth couldn't be applied, there's also no single timing or strategy of a company…
Reader View · Shared by 532, including Startupxplore, Víctor González Pacheco
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.
Reader View · Shared by 514, including Rodrigo Prior, Stephanie A Kowalski, Rhys Lindmark, Ha Duong, Tatjana Nebel, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Aleksandra Wisniewska, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Helmi, Lorenz König, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #NFTNYC, Daniel Williams, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, almagentia369, Travis Murdock, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Raul Tiru 🌎, Shawn Venasse, L. Taylor Banks, Dominik Grolimund
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.”
Reader View · Shared by 510, including Fabricio Teixeira, Marco Unternaehrer, Dominik Grolimund, Travis Murdock, Peter Hogenkamp, Ha Duong, Pat Kua, Oriol Farré, Startupxplore, Liza Sperling, Raul Tiru 🌎, Kris Fannin, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Stephanie A Kowalski, Rodrigo Prior, designshard, Courtney Bolton ★, Marcus Nelson, Thomas Power, Helmi