VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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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API Viral Startup Retention 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Do you have a way to notify them by SMS or email when something notable happens? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Are they turning on their phone specifically to get your app? Want to learn more about me?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I work for a startup and I always try to do all the things you suggest - automatic deployment, continuous integration, A/B tests. -

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. Conducted Customer Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This has been the most appropriate thing I could have ever read right now. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You can start by personally emailing them and saying thanks. I send DM’s, emails, all day thanking people. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? CPL (email) = $4.35 – our goal was $5. And what do I do with all these email addresses?! Landing Page [link].

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

This is lean development without any customer development. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The same goes for payments, analytics, emailing and more. The focus is on building.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Most normal customers – even among early adopters - do not pay attention to the trolls. They don’t participate heavily in the forums, and they don’t send email when they are dissatisfied. They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention.

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