Defining Growth Design: The Guide to the Role Most Startups are Missing

Design is such a powerful word. It means everything and so means nothing. And our practice of design really was the whole thing. Ultimately, it was your experience. From the very founding ideas of what the product is and what it does and how it’s architected and how it’s built—its appearance is just one small part of the whole thing.

And with Escape Velocity, we see the emergence of the classic “Growth Team” that the big companies have.  Escape Velocity,  Goal: Scaling up growth across many efforts and channels,  Roadmap: Multiple growth strategies — primarily 2 or 3 — that work in concert to grow the product to millions or tens of millions of users,  Outcom... See more

If you happen to be in a start-up or part of an enterprise’s innovation group charged with building a new business offering from the ground up (i.e., vertical growth, or building something from nothing), then reimagining design can give you a leg up on getting started if you commit to setting a multidisciplinary tone from day one. Founders with a n

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In every case, a growth team needs a leader, who is like a battalion commander, with her boots on the ground, both managing the team and participating actively in the idea generation and experimentation process. The growth lead sets the course for experimentation as well as the tempo of experiments to be run, and monitors whether or not the team is

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