Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
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Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 68: Are your most talented people working on the biggest opportunities…
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#ExplosiveGrowthTip 69: When creating a new product, create a separate account with funds earmarked exclusively for the new initiative. Do you have…
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Birthday Donations. As we grew, it became difficult to acknowledge birthdays on an individual basis, and it was also challenging to find a convenient time to gather everyone together for cake. Still, we wanted to continue celebrating employee birthdays, so we came up with the cool idea of offering employees $100 to donate to the charity of their ch
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The best people need to be working on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems. With our core product driving 100 percent of the revenues, yet in serious decline, it was counter-intuitive to take our best people away from it. However, if we hadn’t done that, the…
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A Warm Welcome for New Employees. They say first impressions mean everything, so we wanted to make sure new employees went home smiling (rather than stressing) on their first day. We’d have funny balloons waiting for them at their desk, give them a small bottle of our custom-labeled champagne to celebrate their arrival, and introduce them to a “bud
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The Culture Club. I put together a group of some of the most creative and enthusiastic employees specifically for the purpose of working on culture-related activities. We’d meet regularly, and new and creative activities (like the ones on this list) would emerge every time. We called ourselves the “Culture…
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Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 16: Can you identify the one thing about your product that users want more of? Have you tested offering this to them for free if they get some friends to join?
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 1: Find something that people are doing inefficiently and create a solution that makes it substantially easier (ten times easier) to achieve the same result. Does your product accomplish this?
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
(as a matter of fact, nearly 50 percent of men do swipe-right on every girl).
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 74: Do you have a few “friendly users” on standby, ready to speak positively about your product to the media?