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Lessons from growing startups from scratch
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From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
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Yes, this is a huge
pile of money.
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By: Paul Graham
From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
Product/Market Fit
By: Sean Ellis
• Must-have score of 40%
• NPS > 50%
• Stable retention over time
AARRR
From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
Tracking planhttp://bit.ly/segment-tracking
From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
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Model Depends on
Product/Market/Team
• Paid acquisition – eCommerce, Groupon, ScoreBig
• Virality – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
• SEO – Quora, RapGenius, TripAdvisor
• Sales – SaaS, Enterprise, Box
• Other – TurnHere/SmartShoot
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It’s ALL ABOUT HUSTLE
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MAU For GH was Flat
for 3 mo
We lacked fresh ideas.
HIGH TEMPO TESTING
High Tempo Drives
Growth
• Embraced high tempo testing in Jan (11 more wins since)
• Wins powering MAU growth (moved from 90K – 131K)
Started high
tempo testing
Relentless execution
of growth process
1. Ideas
2.Prioritize
3.Test4.Analyze
5.Optimize
–Sean Ellis
“Unbridled ideation.”
HIGH TEMPO TESTING
REQUIREs A DEEP
RESERVOIR OF IDEAS
One person can’t possibly generate enough ideas 

to fuel high tempo testing
200+ ideas From Team
From User Zero: Lessons from Growing Startups From Scratch
Tempo is Everything
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Weekly Growth
Meeting
• New ideas added previous week? (enough fuel in the tank)
• Set weekly tempo goal (3 for our team)
• Did you hit the weekly test starts goal? What were the
tests?
• Any tests completed previous week? (key lessons learned)
• Plan and assign this week’s tests (shoot for goal + 2)
• Move additional ideas to “on deck” (AARRR focus area)
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Find your number
OPTIMIZE ALWAYS
Moved Email collector
from bottom to top
Result: 700% Increase
in collected emails
It’s hard to tell which tests will
have the most impact.
Relentless execution
of growth process
1. Ideas
2.Prioritize
3.Test4.Analyze
5.Optimize
Starting From Zero
• Must Have Product
• Great story
• Understanding of your loop and acquisition
channels
• Deep pipeline of ideas
• High Tempo Testing
• 10 Case Studies of Fast
growing companies
• 15,000+ copies sold
• Many more since at
growthhackers.com
@morganb@seanellis
growthhackers.com

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