Growth

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Collection of resources on growing your startup.

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Startup = Growth
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Anu Hariharan is a Partner at Y Combinator. She was previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Check out this study Anu put together on network effects - http://a16z.com/2016/03/07/all-about-network-effects/ Anu and Craig go over the core learnings from her research, discuss examples, and sh
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Advice from 25 preeminent growth experts at top startups “Growth hacks,” like Hotmail’s inclusion of a signup link in its user’s default email signature, can be extremely helpful in driving viral growth early in a product’s path to product market fit (PMF). However, sustaining long-term growth an
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We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies. Then we thought we should
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We partnered up with China Tech Insights, a research group within Tencent (WeChat’s parent company) to understand how WeChat drives its 889 Million monthly active users to use the app an average of 50+ minutes, and 9 to 11 separate times, per day. This post dives into the growth strategy that led to
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Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Alex-schultz-lecture-6-growth-annotated Alex Schultz gives an overview of Growth for startups, speaking from a position of authority as the VP of Growth at Facebook. View the readings Alex refers to, his slide deck, at http://startupclass.samaltman.com/co
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In 2017, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,500 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to a week long celebration, including Slush Music, new Slush Y verticals, and hundreds of side-events and acti
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For every successful freemium business, there are hundreds of companies that have tried freemium but failed. Here we’ll be sharing a step-by-step guide for monetizing your freemium business - covering user segmentation and targeting, monetization campaign set-up and best practices, and model optimiz
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Alex Schultz, VP of Growth at Facebook, shares with us how to get users, how to grow, and how to measure growth.
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YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer, who was most recently a growth expert at Airbnb describes strategies for scaling your user base. You can find the lecture transcript and slides here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/40 Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ (From Youtube)
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Eli Schwartz - https://twitter.com/5le - is the Director of SEO and Growth at SurveyMonkey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/. He came in to answer commonly asked questions about SEO. Eli blogs about SEO and growth at http://www.elischwartz.co/ The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - https://twitt
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If your startup is building a consumer product, your product has to be viral. For consumer products, the average revenue per user tends to be relatively low, so you won’t be able to afford spending…
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