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

The Next Web

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. In early 2012, Pinterest became an overnight sensation and is now a major source of traffic for women-focused sites. Channel instability. Product-growth fit.

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Twitter Link Roundup #150 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Fatherpreneurship: How to be a Successful Father and Entrepreneur - [link]. SaaS products aren’t viral – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs – [link]. Then Act | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Show them WHY.

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How developers should manage customer support when their app goes viral

The Next Web

Tiny, unknown apps can suddenly go viral and, seemingly overnight, grow to millions of users. User grown often means negotiating a balance between providing service to users and keeping a lean operation. By the time Instagram was purchased by Facebook in April of 2012, the app had more than 40 million users, but only a 13-person team.

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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. I lean on these YouTube channels for info on the YouTube algorithm: Little Monster Media Co ; Derral Eves ; Roberto Blake ; Tim Schmoyer. One of the problems I think most entrepreneurs and online marketers run into is getting wrapped up in vanity metrics.

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

January 27, 2012. As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. . Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Twitter Link Roundup #197 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs and How to Design Your Own Master Routine – crowdspring.co/18q9ZDp. More great examples in the Logo Design section below.

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The *real* pivot

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012. We know entrepreneurs are delusional. Lean Startup pokes a hole in our reality distortion field.

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