📶 25 of the best growth articles we've found

Our favorite growth resources + channels to find new customers

April 27, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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Best growth resources 📈

  1. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users: First-hand accounts of how practically every major consumer company found their first 1,000 users

  2. How the fastest-growing B2B businesses found their first 10 customers: Growth levers used by B2B companies to find their first 10 customers

  3. How to kickstart and scale a marketplace business: Insights from 17 of the most-notable marketplace companies

  4. Psychology of startup growth: How to reprogram your mind for growth

  5. From Zero to IPO: How growth needs to evolve at every startup stage

  6. How people discover products: Tactical ways to build awareness around what you’re building

  7. Content-driven growth: How some of the fastest-growing startups have used content to their advantage

  8. Unit of Value: A Framework for Scaling: Advice from Greylock on how to build out your GTM strategy

  9. Leslie’s Compass: A Framework for GTM Strategy: Is your product marketing-intensive or sales intensive?

  10. Improving retention: How to keep paying customers around longer

  11. Improving conversion” How to convert more paying customers

  12. Increasing virality: How to increase impressions

  13. 8 Go-To-Market Tactics Every Enterprise Founder Needs to Know (That Can’t Be Found on Blogs): Frameworks to scaling revenue

  14. From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100: Tactical takeaways on how to acquire marketshare

  15. Go-To-Market Plan Template: Google Slides template to build out a GTM plan

  16. YC Template Sales Agreement: Simple sales template to use instead of hiring a lawyer to draft it for you

  17. Three Frameworks You Need to Kickstart Sales: How to get your product off the ground

  18. The Racecar Growth Framework: Understand levers, avoid pitfalls, put things into practice

  19. Six rules of hiring for growth: How to find, evaluate, and incentivize the right people to grow

  20. Founder-Led Selling: 58 slides on how to sell as a founder

  21. Good Sales Emails: Massive directory of good sales emails

  22. Cold Emails That Work Template: Write emails that actually convert to customers

  23. Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team: How to structure your sales team

  24. Winning at content-driven growth: How to win customers by winning at content

  25. Winning at SEO: How to win customers by winning at SEO

Best channels to find customers 🔎

Consumers: Reddit

Communities: Hive Index

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