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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Let’s look at each stage of the framework and how to use it to drive and measure growth.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence). They dilute the analysis with non-facts. To provide context.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network.