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

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He and his team didn’t stop there… they dug into SEM and affiliates among other practices in their toolkits. Thus, the true testament to your ability to scalability is virality, or when your users like your product enough to refer a friend. Both of these elements focus on thru-put in the funnel and less on the funnel itself.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.