The Day A Programmer Turned Billionaire Blew Up My Mind With 3 Startup Growth Advice
Read This To Transform Your Mind
Templated advice that promises exponential growth is the new trend in the startup world.
I was sick of all this generic startup advice:
- Focus on SEO
- Adopt a freemium model for exponential growth
- Hire fast, fire fast
- Make data-driven decisions
You can’t depend on generic advice if you want to grow your startup. You need something specific.
That’s why I decided to read the book written by Marc Benioff about how he grew Salesforce. Right after reading the second and third sections of the book, my mind was blown.
Here are the three growth lessons I learned.
1. Position yourself as a revolutionary
When I built my first product and launched it, I didn’t know what the term positioning meant in the business sense.
If in those times someone has used the term positioning in a conversation. I would have thought about “Setting the location of something.”
But I would never have thought about it from a business point of view.
