Links tagged “growth”

mozillascience.github.io

Workshop exercise for project leads — sketch personas of potential users and contributors, then map the pathways that turn them into committed community members.

angel.co

Sam Altman on why joining a fast-growing company is a good career bet, and how hypergrowth startups should approach hiring.

christophjanz.blogspot.com

Five routes to $100 million in annual revenue — elephants, deers, rabbits, mice and flies — sized by how many customers each price point requires.

cdn.ampproject.org

Buffer's account of pausing new blog posts for thirty days to repurpose existing content instead, and the 4% traffic dip that followed.

blog.ladder.io

Five steps for validating a business idea — customer interviews, strategy mapping, landing pages and paid experiments — before leaving your job.

thenextweb.com

A list of 33 startup directories and launch platforms worth submitting a product to, plus 41 the author rates as not worth the effort.

paulgraham.com

Essay arguing that early startups have to recruit users by hand and give unscalable personal service instead of waiting for organic growth.