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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

“Growth hacking perpetuates this myth that you can magically achieve hockey-stick growth by using short-term “hacks.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. they’ll flock to your channel with marketing budgets and tech prowess.

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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. A graph that shows a hockey-stick “up and to the right” curve with at least three data points per key indicator is a great visual assist.

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As it turns out, app retention & conversion are hard

Austin Startup

I asked attendees from the industry, and they said mobile apps are a popular way to check account balances and track budgets, resulting in strong daily and monthly usage and spikes of activity on Sundays. Retention The scary reverse-hockey stick chart shows up in this report, too. average and 6.8%

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How Much Traction is Enough for Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. A graph that shows a hockey-stick “up and to the right” curve with at least three data points per key indicator is a great visual assist.

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Also note that often, organic traffic is one of the highest converting channels. Of course, it’s not so simple.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

While phrases like “mobile email and packet switching” didn’t mean a thing to RIM’s first customers, the “interactive pager” positioning proved important in attracting early adopters. This results in a much slower adoption curve – the classic hockey stick. Resegmenting an Existing Market. New Market Revenue Curve.

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Transcript of Is Podcasting for You?

Duct Tape Marketing

Though I would say based on the numbers that I see it’s not like a hockey stick growth, but the growth in people’s desire to listen to the content and people’s desire to create terrific podcast content has really never been higher. I am on an AT 2035, but I do run it through a two channel mixer.

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