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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Doesn’t.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. don’t think about at all.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. don’t think about at all.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

She is regularly invited to participate as a judge for business plan competitions, as well as speak on topics including entrepreneurship, angel investing, social media, and authentic self promotion. Have you gotten some interesting media? That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. Are you doing an acquisition?

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

The root of the problem is how research gets to the public: Starts with a researcher who’s under pressure to produce stuff that gets traction in media/academic journals. Media continues to stretch claims; bloggers make the problem worse. If these claims were true: Social media would be pure pleasure. Overgeneralizing.