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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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How To: Be A Good Employee, Be A Great Boss | #winningcareers

Occam's Razor

We all start as individual contributors, and we are good at technical competence – that narrow collection of skills you need to be a coder, a cook, an accountant. They tell a coder how to write advanced code. Acquisition-Behavior-Outcomes for dashboard. This is why, as a boss, I love frameworks so, so much!

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. Peep Laja , ConversionXL : “I see growth hacking as traffic acquisition + conversion optimization.” Would they agree that growth hacking is essentially traffic acquisition plus CRO? Visitor-to-customer conversion.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. Instead, their goal is to create a promising product. The focus is on building. Photo by nighthawk7.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. Should your startup be acquired, do you have legal control over what role, title and responsibilities you’ll have post-acquisition? 65k when the industry standard is 120k.

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