Dan Hockenmaier

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Jun 26, 2019
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Hockenmaier: Startups should not scale acquisition before cohort retention curves flatten
“You don't have to have best in class retention numbers, but you need to be seeing some cohorts of people for which retention truly levels out and they use the product very longterm. And if you don't see that you're not ready.”
Dan Hockenmaier Jun 26, 2019 ▶ 1:23 Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
Jun 26, 2019 neutral
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Hockenmaier: The best companies at monetizing win in paid marketing
“These are all, like we were talking earlier, business model competitions where like the best companies at monetizing are going to win in paid marketing. And so if your product is better at monetizing, it allows you to then go do, do more of that.”
Dan Hockenmaier Jun 26, 2019 ▶ 38:34 Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
Jun 26, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Hockenmaier: 90% of growth advising is talking founders out of ideas
“Nine times out of 10, we are talking them out of doing things that they want to do.”
Dan Hockenmaier Jun 26, 2019 ▶ 0:37 Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
Jun 26, 2019 positive
Insight
Hockenmaier: Growth tactics can be weaponized for beneficial apps like health and fitness
“We're like, we're not going back to a world where we don't have these addictive products competing for our attention, but we can weaponize these same tools we have learned for good things. And so like other products are going to come in, you know, you see this…”
Dan Hockenmaier Jun 26, 2019 ▶ 58:54 Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
Jun 26, 2019 bearish
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Hockenmaier: Paid marketing degrades quickly if used as a primary growth strategy
“If it becomes your primary channel, it's a very hard thing to sustain because it's expensive but also because it degrades pretty quickly, actually. So, like, you know, if you look at the DTC companies or Blue Apron, I think, you know, they grew really quickly …”
Dan Hockenmaier Jun 26, 2019 ▶ 37:04 Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
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