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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Channel instability. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011. “If

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Sean Connery, The Rock.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. They continue to provide superior customer service by ensuring their storing and syncing capabilities are top-notch. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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Twitter Link Roundup #185 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Smart Ways to Resurrect your Customers – [link]. 5 Smart Ways to Resurrect your Customers – [link]. Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link]. Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link]. Here are 10 tips – [link].

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Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool

abovethecrowd.com

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” This goal – to deliver the highest possible value to the customer – is a key catalyst for UberPool.