The big buzz phrase in the Bay Area the last year or so has been “growth hacking,” and the ideas behind it can help significantly game companies. The underlying principle in the phrase is that modern start-ups should be focused on using the new tools available via technology to grow rapidly their user base rather than relying on older, sometimes outdated, marketing techniques. Growth—unlike marketing—usually encompasses multiple aspects of an organization, with the growth team not only bringing in users but also working with the product team to optimize the product for growth. It stresses the importance of product to growth and how the two should work together rather than having marketing set aside in a corner. The phrase itself was coined by Sean Ellis, CEO of Qualaroo and the first marketer at many great tech companies including Dropbox and LogMeIn.
What is a growth team?
A quora post from Andy Johns (currently on Quora’s growth team and one of the early members of Facebook’s growth team) described the typical people an early stage company would put on its growth team: Continue reading “Growth tactics for mobile game and social media companies”
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