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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Cross-functional strategic thinking: Being able to come up with new ideas, understand the customer journey, identify opportunities, and work effectively with other stakeholders. On its official launch in 2014, it had 15,000 daily users. Slack started with a minimum viable product. Address churn by engaging users.

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

ConversionXL

There, a smoke test is the process of running test cases involving the “important functionality of a component or system, to ascertain if crucial functions of the software work correctly” Using this definition, smoke tests address questions like… Does the program run? Does clicking the key functionality do anything?

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How to Become an Entrepreneur With No Money or Experience

Hubspot

Chris Riccobono launched UNTUCKit -- a line of shirts that look good untucked -- after getting frustrated with how wrinkly and ill-fitting his regular button-down shirts were when he didn't tuck them in. Ask everyone to come prepared to discuss a certain product category or question, such as, "What's your favorite type of X and why?"