ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Is my churn rate below the category average? What should our MRR growth be? Consumer apps and services.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. Your churn rates are too high. We shared stories about our past rejections, about our inability to raise money in down markets, about the weeks left in cash, about how we were sure we were dead. Nearly every one.

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Churn Rate Vesting Viral eCommerce 371

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. Most of the marketing techniques that look good in the early days cannot be scaled 10x, never mind 100x. For example, PR doesn’t scale.

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