How to build a refer-a-friend program for your web app in 2013
Refer-a-friend programs work. The problem is that while some of them lead to exponential viral growth, a lot of them are poorly...
Your Viral Co-Efficient Sucks and That’s Awesome
Viral, is as buzzy of a word as it gets these days. For the most part, you might as well just talk about synergizing your mobil...
Dropbox’s First Marketer Shares About the Startup Stages of Growth
At the latest Growth Hacker Conference in San Francisco, we had the pleasure of hearing from Sean Ellis, the First Marketer at ...
Growth Vs. Growth Hacking – Lessons from Square’s Former COO
Keith Rabois, the Former COO of Square and a member of the investment team at Khosla Ventures, recently shared some of his wisd...
3 Referral Program Mistakes That Don’t Work and Why!
This week we are profiling referral programs from three of our favorite companies: PipeDrive, PaperTrail, and Terapeak. These g...
You Need To List Your Startup and 3 Tips to Help You With It
Congratulations – you have a startup. Which means you probably have a website, and (maybe) a product. So it’s time to get your ...
A Pirate Metrics Guide to Blogs
500 Startups founding partner, Dave McClure coined the term Pirate Metrics back in 2007 and shared it with the world in his now...