Cofounder Cost Distribution Viral 
Hunter Walker
MAY 17, 2024
“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. This means — assuming you already have a laptop — the cost is almost nothing to build the next Twitter. 1) Twitter. But a good developer could make it quicker.”. 3) Facebook. Others would say one million or a much bigger number.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Which is OK — not all products need to be viral!
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 28, 2012
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. With the cost of starting and running a startup at all time lows, it is now easier than ever to attempt to take market share. Channel saturation. Product-growth fit.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 9, 2023
That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.
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