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Early Stage Growth
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Sa vva s
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Growth Marketer
Product Guy
Scandinavian Design
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So, what is the problem?
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Weak principles, no process, little experience.
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Quantitative Model
Translating data into a future-looking model
Storytelling
Bringing it all to life
Data Analysis
Understanding the meaning of data
User Psychology
Understanding human behaviour and choices
Source: reforge.com
Principles
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High tempo testing + Growth Machine + Execution
Process
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In high tempo testing, your whole team commit to run
a specific amount of experiments on a weekly basis.
High tempo testing
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Growth Machine
6. Systemize
(Productization + Playbooks)
1. Brainstorm
(Backlog)
2. Prioritize
(Backlog + Pipeline)
3. Test
(Experiment Doc)
4. Implement
(Execute like crazy)
5. Analyze
(Experiment Doc)
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Experiment backlog
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Get results, not excuses.
Execution
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5 growth levers for early stage startups.
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Every team member should focus on
your top-level KPI.
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Talk to every single user that signs up.
No, you don’t need a sophisticated onboarding email flow.
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Don’t just shoot for a growth rate.
Build your growth bottom up instead.
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Sense of urgency.
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Treat every month as a sprint ending
the last day of the month at 00:00.
The next one starts next day in the morning.
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Build growth in your product.
Not outside.
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