There are three options for your growth. The first is ‘blitzkrieg’ style where you push your product out into the market with heavy machinery. The second is having the Facebook-gene that naturally translates into a hockey stick. First option takes lots of money. The second path is pretty rare. The third option is natural growth, [...]
In this talk Dr Florian Heinemann (CEO of Rocket Internet) shares his insights into the ways that a good business analytics concept is essential to your growth. Florian’s message from his presentation at HackFwd’s Build 0.8 is straightforward: understand who your key customers are, the ones who are responsible for the highest lifetime value, and [...]
Rahul Barwani, winner of the Global Entrepreneurship Challenge 2010, discuss different PR strategies and how to get your company on the map in a world with so many start-ups?
CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin, came to London and spoke at a rather impromptu Hacker News Meetup, held at Forward in Camden.
How does a founder build a multi-million dollar health care tech company in 2 years? Kabir Shahani is the CEO of the enterprise software company, Appature. Appature is a relationship marketing technology that aggregates sales and marketing data and provides marketers with the tools to mine that data, launch multi-channel campaigns, and get rapid analytics. In this [...]
Gustav von Sydow – Big business – the happiness and hardships of building an Enterprise 2.0 startup.
Jason Nazar, co-founder and CEO of Docstoc, has spent years building his company from a small start-up to a sustainable and profitable business. Watch him break down ten steps he’s developed for starting, maintaining and growing an amazing business from the ground up. Listen to the ten greatest challenges entrepreneurs face, and how to master [...]
Kevin shares the secrets to digg.com and wefollow.com explosive user growth. He covers nine unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates. You’ll learn: 1. How to encourage users to tweet about your app 2. The concept of “The Circle of Life” in web apps and how it affects you 3. Growing your userbase: [...]
37signals increased their sign-ups by 200% by doing A/B Testing, which you can read about at bit.ly/QSxDj. However, many people are using WordPress, which makes A/B testing tricky. Here’s Carsonified’s screencast tutorial which shows you how to do it.
