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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community?

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. I began covering Dell as an equity analyst for First Boston in early 1994, and over the six years that followed, Dell’s stock would appreciate 100x; a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented run of value creation. https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. They've made internet shopping a breeze by constantly researching and improving warehousing facilities to ensure that things can be ordered and dispatched quickly. 7- Netflix.

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Revolutions and pleasure

Start Up Blog

In the October 1994 Issue of Wired , Gary Wolfe said in an article, article about Mosiac (the worlds first GUI web browser) and the coming internet revolution. “When it comes to smashing a paradigm, pleasure is not the most important thing… it is the only thing.&#.

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Lessons From Defeat, A True or False Quiz

Up and Running

He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. He is a graduate of Reed College. So what does he say happened? Not what you think. Not what you think.

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8 Ways To Leverage The “I Like To Watch” Ubertrend

ReadWriteStart

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. Video Accessories.

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