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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Forceā€¦ From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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5 Reasons Growth Hacking is THE Most Important Function of a Startup

Tech Zulu Event

Awesome, now you know it works, so you need a lot more customers to become an actual business. Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescuā€™s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). We need to market to that customer to make them aware of our product or service. Choose that market.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable ā€“ An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.