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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. The Lean Startup’s core is represented by the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. The buzz on “growth hacking” has spread all across the world. This rapid craze beseeches an explanation.

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Five Learnings Of Growing From A Local Online Startup To An International Business

YoungUpstarts

Our moneysaving portal Flipit.com has been launched in twenty-two different countries, including Singapore , and I am managing a team of eight people. Automating processes with APIs, creating a large e-mail subscriber base, SEO and viral strategies are of course extremely valuable to any start-up. But how do you ‘growth hack’ people?

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