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

The Next Web

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. But this door quickly closed: Facebook changed the OpenGraph’s parameters due to, in its view, a bad user experience with over-optimized and aggressive video posting.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years. https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

Several things - and I like the way Tin Tzuo, the Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com illustrated them during his speech at the Stanford Technology Venture Program. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Yelp reviews.