4 years ago I was living in San Francisco when my fiancee came home and told me she was pregnant. This happened to be the same week I started my new startup Clarity. A few months later she decided to partner with a friend and start a new marketing agency Onboardly. On top of that, we figured we wanted to be closer
If you’re feeling lonely in your city (don’t know any other entrepreneurs)… or that it lacks a real sense of community, here’s 3 strategies that will help you create a startup community super quick. A few years ago when I moved from San Francisco, back to a small town in Canada (to raise my kids)… I realized I knew more
Getting your first 1000 customers is no different than getting your first 5,000 or 1,000,000 customers. It all comes down to a few key strategies…
On Nov 7th, 2013 I walked into the speakers lounge at the Growth Hacker Conference and met Andy Johns (@ibringtraffic) for the first time. Andy worked on growth teams at Facebook, Twitter, Quora and now was at WealthFront. He’s one of the “Original Gangsters” (OG’s) in the growth space – just read his Quora answers to get an idea of the quality
Building an audience BEFORE you launch is something that I’ve done for every one of my companies and is a question that I get asked about all of the time. There’s this misconception that people think that if you can launch a product – then you’re automatically going to have success. “If you build it, they will come” is NOT
“How do you build a product company within a service company?” …is a question that a lot of people struggle with. There are amazing examples of companies who have started off as a consulting or service company who have gone on to launch great products. Companies like:
In 2010 I was visiting a friend at Twitter and got introduced to Josh Elman who had recently been hired to help improve Twitter’s onboarding experience. What I learned that day forever changed my thoughts on how I look at building product.
When I first moved to San Francisco I spent the first year immersed in startup marketing. I believed that regardless of the company I eventually started, that as long as I understood marketing I would be widely successful. Man was I wrong.
Role-playing is such a funny idea when you think of it in the context of business – who would of thought “acting out” a situation would make sense in your startup? Quick story… I was talking to a friend about an important meeting he has coming up and suggested to him that he role play with a co-worker; practice what
There’s a great quote that’s going to summarize everything that I’m about to teach you today: “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ~ Aristotle When I was raising money for our first round of funding I got some great advice from one of our “quarterbacks”, Travis Kalanick (now CEO of Uber).
