The Next Web
MAY 16, 2017
Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company. Kano’s winning metric? Hiring interdisciplinary coders who could help keep kids really engaged on their self-made computers.
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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SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 28, 2009
I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. The only reason we learned the art of metrics-based decision making at IMVU was out of necessity. that justify decisions already made. I think it was $350 the next, and so on.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? You can give counter-intuitive advice on implementing Lean Startup techniques. Glad you asked.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
What happens to careful planning, sure-fire metrics, quality test scenarios, market research, a good business plan – all in place before pulling the trigger of a new opportunity. Either way, without even pausing to document the process internally, no-one can easily take over the job, if for any reason the cowboy coder is no longer in control.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.
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