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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. When people (ok, engineers) who have been trained in this model enter most startups, they quickly get confused. Should you charge from day one, testing the revenue model first?

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I also visited Japan, Melbourne, Singapore, and a few places like that. Adding Ad Revenue. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. I then went and found a university student who was interested in internet marketing. I had someone running the forum.