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Ways to Acquire Users for Free

Spencer Fry

The Viral Strategy. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. Foursquare and similar viral success stories (Instagram, etc.) You want to be able to track how new viral users are coming into your system. Another issue is server growing pains.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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UGC Strategies to Boost Your Brand

Women Entrepreneurs Can

You can have a fantastic website, well-designed, and full of great content, but if it is not SEO-worthy, it will not be found on search engines and will not get leads and conversions. User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. Conversions are crucial to say that SEO strategies are working.

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Explained: The actual difference between growth hacking and marketing

The Next Web

So while startups are trying to both build a car and get the engine started, corporations are trying to make their cars run faster. Growth hackers utilize analytical thinking, product engineering and creativity to significantly increase their company’s core metric(s). Most of the time, corporations have all this figured out.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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