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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. Revenue Metrics. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest. I like to think of revenue drivers.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. I have seen many teams pour tons of money, time and effort into PR strategies without thinking about how product tweaks could drive more consumption, more retention and more referrals.

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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

VC Cafe

Perhaps the most powerful content creation of all, which is growing in popularity is coding, catapulting companies like Lovable which hit $17M in annualised recurring revenue in February 2025, up from $7M at the end of 2024. These costs represent an ongoing tax on revenue, requiring careful consideration in business model design.

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Twitter Link Roundup #56 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link].

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. A business publication may care less about the technical nuances, but you can bet they’ll want to hear about your numbers and your strategy for raising revenue. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

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Getting Your Series A Mojo Back

Both Sides of the Table

From Aspiration to Hero For companies that do have that moment of success where everything seems to come together: funding, hiring, customers, PR, product releases and so forth — you have a “hero” moment where you feel invincible. Or some teams who start driving revenue paper over the fact that they aren’t acquiring customers profitably.

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

It’s sometimes not entirely clear where content marketing starts and where SEO or PR end. Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. Resources on virality/referral: Referral Marketing Master Course. Predictable Revenue.

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