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What is a growth hacker? This term was coined back in 2010 by Shawn Ellis, an entrepreneur, and a startup advisor, to describe a specialist who experiments with various marketing channels and product development methods in order to come up with the most efficient growth strategies. In other words, a growth hacker is responsible for […]
Health Tech startup Paubox gives back to the Mission District they now call home SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 8, 2015– Health Tech startup Paubox reached an important milestone for any SaaS business with its 100th customer in November. The one-year-old startup has seen quick growth averaging over 20% month-over-month; working lean, and growth hacking wherever […]
Based in marketing but leveraging social networks, and some times a bit of programming, growth hacking is the intersection of data, product, and marketing. The practice is one that pairs increasing digital metrics with minimal resources and spend. The growth hacker, as explained by Aaron Ginn, “finds a strategy within the parameters of a scalable and repeatable method for […]
As published to Huffington Post In March of this year, a group of social media enthusiasts and developers of the@Crowdfire Twitter Premier League set out to challenge one another to see who could amass the greatest number of Twitter followers in a given period of time. Growth hacker Karan Thakkar won this challenge, growing a […]
Is growth hacking simply a trendy buzz word or is there more to it? Just how does the job description for a growth hacker differ from a “regular” marketer? Or is this actually a fancy way to describe a marketing professional? Let’s take a look at the growth hacking phenomenon and how it will revolutionize […]