After some early wins and epic fails, Groove launched to the public. They’ve come a long way, but not without some hurdles. Learn how they got to $30k/month in under a year.
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Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in Under a Year
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How YesGraph Got Its First 1000 Users
One of the hardest things for start ups is how to get those first users on board. This articles gives some basic, non-scalable ideas on how to get your first 1000 users.
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Launching a Start-Up? Here’s How to Drum Up Interest In The Media
These guys used a combination of Google News API and MTurk to get coverage in major online news outlets for their start-up.
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Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
Do you have a website or a blog? Would you like to receive instant alerts as soon as your site goes down or becomes inaccessible to users? Would you like these alerts to arrive in your email inbox or as text messages on your mobile phone or both?
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Increase in Google Analytics “Not Provided” Keyword Results
Website owners – have you noticed an increase in "Not Provided" keyword results in your Google Analytics profile? This article explains what has caused this increase.
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Getting to 1000+ Users
Some good advice on how to get your first 1000 customers. To maintain a good relationship with your first 1000 customers, send personalised emails, for example. Do things that won’t scale – wait until you have more than 1000 customers for these things.
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Ways to Finance Your Start-Up
Finding money to start a company and keep it afloat is challenging – it’s probably one of hardest things I’ve had to do as part of building my company. There are many ways to raise capital for your company and in this post, I’m going to talk about the different ways for an early stage start-up to raise financing.
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If It’s Important, Don’t Hack It
The team at Intercom explains what growth hacking is, and why you should avoid it. Great examples too.
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Stop Trying To Force The Startup Life On Everyone
This start-up veteran makes the point that not everyone is going to take a job at a risky start-up. He thinks it’s time we stop trying to force the start-up life on everyone. IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.
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