VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. Unbounce online marketing blog. Distribution Hacks.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

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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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Many marketers became more concerned with 10x growth hacks they read about online than strategy and growth process. ” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders.

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Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

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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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Th.Khangs said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If necessary, consider doing this under a different brand name than the one you are wedded to using.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

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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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98

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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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Why do I do it?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

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. Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

This is lean development without any customer development. The consolidation of the social graph by Facebook, the various app stores and the abundance of cloud-based services lower time to market. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The focus is on building.

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Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

For months, we made constant product and policy changes, trying to end the controversy without simply undoing our original decision and abandoning the mainstream market. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone. But silence was the worst possible strategy.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158