Growth Strategy
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Growth Strategy, every show
Balfour: Metrics measure if a growth strategy is working, not define it
“Your metrics are there to help answer the question, is your strategy working? Right. And so they are not there to determine your strategy.”
Gotthelf: Easily gamed growth strategies mean you are tracking the wrong metric
“In order for you to actually come up with a good growth strategy, you have to think about how can you game this problem? And if you can easily game it, then you're looking at the wrong thing.”
Startups should never rely on platform hacks as a primary growth strategy
“The lesson is, like, don't do that stuff, because one day, if that's your strategy, there's a whole group of people trying to kill what you're doing. You never want your whole, like, growth strategy to be something where there's someone out there trying to sto…”