Grow Big or Go Home
  • Chamath Palihapitiya - how we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users
    Chamath Palihapitiya - how we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users Check out the full course for 50% off at http://www.udemy.com/growth-hackers-conference/?couponCode=YouTube50. This is part of a 10-hour course from the Growth Hackers Conference. The course includes this video and more from leaders at LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, LivingSocial, Dropbox, and more!
  • Drew Houston: Distribution and Growing Your User Base
    Drew Houston: Distribution and Growing Your User Base According to Dropbox Co-Founder Drew Houston, the need for product distribution strategies is often overlooked at startups. Here he shares some of the mistakes he made around this issue and some of the guerilla-style successes the company achieved to grow their user base.

    View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2988
  • Lecture 6 - Growth (Alex Schultz)
    Lecture 6 - Growth (Alex Schultz) Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Alex-schultz-lecture-6-growth-annotated

    Alex Schultz gives an overview of Growth for startups, speaking from a position of authority as the VP of Growth at Facebook.

    View the readings Alex refers to, his slide deck, at http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec06/

    Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64035

    This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
  • Ben Silbermann (Pinterest) - The Early Days of Pinterest
    Ben Silbermann (Pinterest) - The Early Days of Pinterest Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest.com spoke at Startup Grind in Palo Alto on 2/29/12. For more information visit http://StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind.

    ***Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.
  • [500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experiments
    [500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experiments Brian Balfour, VP Growth, HubSpot

    Check out Brian's slide deck here: http://www.slideshare.net/500startups/02-brian-balfour-hub-spot-final
  • Lecture 4 - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung)
    Lecture 4 - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung) Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Adora-cheung-lecture-4-building-product-talking-to-users-and-growing-annotated

    So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users?Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup.

    See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec04/

    Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64033
  • How Instagram made it big
    How Instagram made it big Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, explains what strategies the company took that made the photo app a success.

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  • How to Drive Growth with Ivan Kirigin
    How to Drive Growth with Ivan Kirigin Tech Talk 6.25.14
  • Drew Houston (Founder Dropbox) - Talk - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur @ Stanford University
    Drew Houston (Founder Dropbox) - Talk - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur @ Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thoughts

    Drew Houston is CEO and co-founder of Dropbox, and has led Dropbox's growth from a simple idea to a service relied upon by millions around the world. Drew leads all of Dropbox's activities, and is actively involved in its business and product decisions.

    Before founding Dropbox, Drew attended MIT's Course 6 (Computer Science). He took a quick leave from school to form Accolade, an online SAT prep startup, and also worked as a software engineer for Bit9.

    After graduating from MIT, Drew recognized that people needed a way to bring their files with them without sending email attachments or carrying USB drives. He began writing a solution to this problem in early 2007 before demo-ing an early version to Arash Ferdowsi in Boston. The two of them then began working on the project that would eventually become Dropbox.
    Big Tanks to Stanford University:
    http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2983
  • Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press
    Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/William-sydney-walker-lecture-8-doing-things-that-dont-scale-pr-and-how-to-get-started-annotated

    Lecture 8 features 3 speakers:
    Stanley Tang, Founder of Doordash, covers How to Get Started.
    Walker Williams, Founder of Teespring, covers Doing things that Don't Scale.
    Justin Kan, Founder of TwitchTV and Partner at Y Combinator, covers Press.

    See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec09/

    Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64037
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