Published inGrowth Hackers·Jul 17, 2019What is an enlightened growth leader & how does one avoid burnout?Originally published at https://growthgal.com. There’s an ancient Indian proverb about 6 blind men and an elephant. The proverb says that the 6 men all have different ideas of what an elephant looks like based on their experience touching the elephant. The problem is that the blind men can not agree…Entrepreneurship10 min readEntrepreneurship10 min read
May 9, 2019Should gender be subtracted from business?Originally published at https://growthgal.com on May 9, 2019. I was asked the following question on a recent ask me anything… “When I attended a gender studies seminar in the early nineties we were taught that there are basically two ways of dealing with gender. You can add gender to everything…Diversity9 min readDiversity9 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Dec 10, 2018“I’m sorry, I can not find any songs by Meatwood Mac on Amazon.”“Alexa… ALEXA! Play Fleetwood Mac!” “I’m sorry, I can not find any songs by Meatwood Mac on Amazon.” “Come on! ALEXA! Play Fleetwood Mac on Spotify!” “Shuffling songs by Fleetwood Mac on Spotify.” 🎶 Dreams by Fleetwood Mac 🎶 “ALEXA, shut up.” Music stops. It’s easy to get frustrated by…Alexa7 min readAlexa7 min read
Aug 9, 2018Lessons Learned Working with Sean EllisOver 2 years ago I sat down to coffee with Sean Ellis. I was anxious. I wasn’t sure what Sean would be like and I was in the midst of working through my own imposter syndrome as a marketer in the tech world. After we went through our casual introductions…Startup7 min readStartup7 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Apr 9, 2018The Story Behind GrowthHackers New Software, Experiments & How to Get StartedA couple of weeks ago we launched a private beta for our new growth acceleration software, Experiments. The GrowthHackers team has been working on building Experiments, in some fashion, over the past 3 years. It hasn’t been easy, and we’re not done. What is Experiments? Experiments is a growth acceleration software that allows…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Mar 2, 2018Early Stage Startup Self Growth AssessmentAfter helping hundreds of companies understand how growth hacking fits into their business, our team has compiled our learnings and offer 5 questions for early stage startups to consider when getting started or improving an approach to sustainable growth. The 5 Questions: To set up your team and product for success, we recommend…Growth Hacking3 min readGrowth Hacking3 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Feb 8, 20182018 GrowthHackers Conference SlidesEarlier this week the GrowthHackers team brought top growth pioneers in to stage at the 2018 GrowthHackers Conference in San Diego. We will be releasing the full recordings of all presentations, fireside chats, and panels in our Virtual Pass once available. …Growth Hacking2 min readGrowth Hacking2 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Jan 10, 2018Building a Cross-Functional Growth Team at Capital OneAt GrowthHackers we get a lot of questions from teams getting started in cross-functional, customer-centric growth. Who should be on the growth team? Who should the growth team report to? How do we get buy-in across the team? How do we know where to focus our resources? …Growth7 min readGrowth7 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Jan 5, 20188 Tips for Getting the Most out of a ConferenceWhile planning the 2018 GrowthHackers Conference, I started getting questions from attendees and people sending attendees to the conference asking for pointers on how they can get the most out of the conference. Drawing on my past experience attending, sponsoring, speaking at and now hosting conferences, I have tactics I…Networking6 min readNetworking6 min read
Published inGrowth Hackers·Dec 4, 2017How #GHConf18 was built.View the Final 2018 GrowthHackers Conference Agenda Every year, the GrowthHackers Conference planning team gets together to plan with one mission: bring together growth experts from or working with fast growing companies to create a wholistic program to teach teams and individuals on how to adopt sustainable growth practices.Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
