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Growth Hacking & Traction for Startups
by Can Ertugrul
This is a
Traction Engine
The rollercoaster ride in search for growth
“A startup is a company designed to grow
fast… The only essential thing is growth.
Everything else we associate with startups
follows from growth.”
- Paul Graham (YC)
Why you should care?
Traction
Team Tech
- Fred Destin (Accel)
What Fred Destin and other investors look for
Traction = Growth
10011001
Growth Hacking & Traction for StartupsNot binary facts but one perspective
Growth Hacking & Traction for StartupsBirdview on Traction
A startup is…
“…is a temporary organization designed
to search for a repeatable and scalable
business model.”
- Steve Blank (author)
In search = exploration
An essential part of your Biz model
“A business model describes the rationale of
how an organization creates, delivers, and
captures value
- Business Model Generation (Book)
Traction is…
“…basically quantitative evidence of customer
demand. So if you’re in enterprise software, [initial
traction] may be two or three early customers who
are paying a bit; if you’re in consumer software the
bar might be as high as hundreds of thousands of
users. It’s the [U.S.] Supreme Court definition of
porn…. You’ll know it when you see it.”
- Naval Ravikant (Angellist)
Startup constitutution: The pursuit of growth
Startup Pyramid (Sean Ellis)
Product-Market-Fit (PMF)
„… being in a good market with a
product that can satisfy that market“
- Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz)
„40% or more of your users would be
„very dissapointed“ without our product“
- Sean Ellis (Qualaroo/GrowthHackers)
Product-Market-Fit by Andreas Klinger (Product Hunt)
Life before and after Product-Market-Fit
Before PMF After PMF
Exploration
Experiment
Initial Traction
Often „Manual“
Growth Hacking
Optimizing
Scaling
Automate
Death
„Must-Have-Product“
Channels… connecting people
Customer acquistion channels connect your company
or your product with (potential) users or customers
YOU
Channel B
Tips out there might not apply to YOU
Fact: ALL channels have been
„proven“ to work for some
companies at a specific time
Flood of information & different
„best practices“
Beware of biases
Survivor Bias (typically from Post-PMF companies)
„We we‘re succesful, this channels worked for us“
Your own channel bias
„I don‘t like calling people, but I love using
Facebook, so it is probably the better way to
reach my customers than sales calls.“
Truth: Every company is different
Different channels work differently
well for different companies and
industries.
Also most channels work even
differently well for the same company
over time.
The present is never like the past
„Law of Shitty Click-Throughs“
Channels change, become
overcrowded, degrade, or
become more expensive over
time
That is why prediction is difficult
You can rarely predict which
channel will work best for your
company at particular time and
particular stage
In search for a channel
Find channel(s) that will get YOU traction
If no channel works: No PMF?
Explore channels WHILE Product Dev
A proposed approach
Data
Mindest
Experiment Channels
Fundamentals
Mindset I – Traction from Start
Growing = getting traction = equally
your „job“ like building a product (in
parallel)
Lessons learned from Traction =>
integrate to Product where possible
Mindset II – Measurement
What you measure is what you get
Try to „move the needle“
Users in
Users out
Mindset III - Focus
Corporate Marketing = Startup Traction
Building
Traction Building = doing everything (or beeing
on every channel)
Focus
No „free“ channels (you must invest time)
Fundamental I – Know Your Customer
Unterstanding your Customers
Unterstanding their world (spent time,
substitutes, competitors, other used services/
products, regulary consumed channels,…)
Fundamental II – Metrics
Setting „right“ metrics for your startup
and its current stage
Paid B2B
SaS
Freemium
Mobile
App
Free B2C
Platform
Hardware Search
Engine
Acquistion
Engagement
Bottom-Line
Which metrics would you choose here?
Fundamental III – „Right Channel“
Pre-PMF
 Creating relatively most acquistions
 Moving needle (now)
 „Affordable“ / Executable for you
Post-PMF
 Acquiring at lower cost than other channels
 Acquiring better than competitors
 Suiting your Unit-Economics
 Repeatable & Scalable
Channels I – Structure
Draw here ;-)
Channels II – Do‘s
 Understand specific Channel mechanics
 Check peers/competitions/industry
 Seek out under-utilized channels
 Use over-utilized channels more creatively
 Re-Test & Re-evaluate channels
 Double Down on Winners
Channels III – Difference(s)
Demand harvesting VS. Demand generation
Channels with customer intent VS. Channels
with user interruption
Highly recommended read!
19 channels
Viral Marketing
Public Relations
Unconventional PR
Search Engine Marketing
Social and Display Ads
Offline Ads
Search Engine Optimization
Content Marketing
Email Marketing
Engineering as Marketing
Targeting Blogs
Business Development
Sales
Affiliate Programs
Existing Platforms
Trade Shows
Offline Events
Speaking Engagements
Community Building
Examples of companies for which a specific channel
worked really well to siginificantly drive growth
Viral marketing
PR
Unconventional PR
Search Engine Marketing
Social and Display Ads
Offline Ads
SEO
Content Marketing
Email Marketing
Engineering as Marketing
Targeting Blogs
Business Development
Sales
Affiliate Programs
Existing Platforms
Trade Shows
Offline Events
Speaking Engagements
Community Building
Discussion Time

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Growth Hacking & Traction

  • 1. Growth Hacking & Traction for Startups by Can Ertugrul This is a Traction Engine
  • 2. The rollercoaster ride in search for growth
  • 3. “A startup is a company designed to grow fast… The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.” - Paul Graham (YC) Why you should care?
  • 4. Traction Team Tech - Fred Destin (Accel) What Fred Destin and other investors look for
  • 6. 10011001 Growth Hacking & Traction for StartupsNot binary facts but one perspective
  • 7. Growth Hacking & Traction for StartupsBirdview on Traction
  • 8. A startup is… “…is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” - Steve Blank (author)
  • 9. In search = exploration
  • 10. An essential part of your Biz model “A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value - Business Model Generation (Book)
  • 11. Traction is… “…basically quantitative evidence of customer demand. So if you’re in enterprise software, [initial traction] may be two or three early customers who are paying a bit; if you’re in consumer software the bar might be as high as hundreds of thousands of users. It’s the [U.S.] Supreme Court definition of porn…. You’ll know it when you see it.” - Naval Ravikant (Angellist)
  • 12. Startup constitutution: The pursuit of growth
  • 14. Product-Market-Fit (PMF) „… being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market“ - Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz) „40% or more of your users would be „very dissapointed“ without our product“ - Sean Ellis (Qualaroo/GrowthHackers)
  • 15. Product-Market-Fit by Andreas Klinger (Product Hunt)
  • 16. Life before and after Product-Market-Fit Before PMF After PMF Exploration Experiment Initial Traction Often „Manual“ Growth Hacking Optimizing Scaling Automate Death „Must-Have-Product“
  • 17. Channels… connecting people Customer acquistion channels connect your company or your product with (potential) users or customers YOU Channel B
  • 18. Tips out there might not apply to YOU Fact: ALL channels have been „proven“ to work for some companies at a specific time Flood of information & different „best practices“
  • 19. Beware of biases Survivor Bias (typically from Post-PMF companies) „We we‘re succesful, this channels worked for us“ Your own channel bias „I don‘t like calling people, but I love using Facebook, so it is probably the better way to reach my customers than sales calls.“
  • 20. Truth: Every company is different Different channels work differently well for different companies and industries. Also most channels work even differently well for the same company over time.
  • 21. The present is never like the past „Law of Shitty Click-Throughs“ Channels change, become overcrowded, degrade, or become more expensive over time
  • 22. That is why prediction is difficult You can rarely predict which channel will work best for your company at particular time and particular stage
  • 23. In search for a channel Find channel(s) that will get YOU traction If no channel works: No PMF? Explore channels WHILE Product Dev
  • 25. Mindset I – Traction from Start Growing = getting traction = equally your „job“ like building a product (in parallel) Lessons learned from Traction => integrate to Product where possible
  • 26. Mindset II – Measurement What you measure is what you get Try to „move the needle“ Users in Users out
  • 27. Mindset III - Focus Corporate Marketing = Startup Traction Building Traction Building = doing everything (or beeing on every channel) Focus No „free“ channels (you must invest time)
  • 28. Fundamental I – Know Your Customer Unterstanding your Customers Unterstanding their world (spent time, substitutes, competitors, other used services/ products, regulary consumed channels,…)
  • 29. Fundamental II – Metrics Setting „right“ metrics for your startup and its current stage Paid B2B SaS Freemium Mobile App Free B2C Platform Hardware Search Engine Acquistion Engagement Bottom-Line Which metrics would you choose here?
  • 30. Fundamental III – „Right Channel“ Pre-PMF  Creating relatively most acquistions  Moving needle (now)  „Affordable“ / Executable for you Post-PMF  Acquiring at lower cost than other channels  Acquiring better than competitors  Suiting your Unit-Economics  Repeatable & Scalable
  • 31. Channels I – Structure Draw here ;-)
  • 32. Channels II – Do‘s  Understand specific Channel mechanics  Check peers/competitions/industry  Seek out under-utilized channels  Use over-utilized channels more creatively  Re-Test & Re-evaluate channels  Double Down on Winners
  • 33. Channels III – Difference(s) Demand harvesting VS. Demand generation Channels with customer intent VS. Channels with user interruption
  • 35. 19 channels Viral Marketing Public Relations Unconventional PR Search Engine Marketing Social and Display Ads Offline Ads Search Engine Optimization Content Marketing Email Marketing Engineering as Marketing Targeting Blogs Business Development Sales Affiliate Programs Existing Platforms Trade Shows Offline Events Speaking Engagements Community Building
  • 36. Examples of companies for which a specific channel worked really well to siginificantly drive growth
  • 38. PR
  • 43. SEO
  • 49. Sales