The Growth Hacking Podcast is a bi-weekly show created for YOU, the Startup Founder, Marketing Expert or Investor. If you are looking for inspiration and ACTIONABLE advice on how to GROW your Startup, Laura Moreno delivers great interviews twice a week. Each episode brings you a successful Startup Founder or Growth Hacker who shares a Growth Hacking Strategy that worked for them. Each episode ends with the Lightning Round where they will share with you their secrets for lean growth and success!
Featuring Neil Patel, Ari Meisel, Casey Armstrong and many more twice a week
Andrew Chan is the co-founder of Aftership, a company that helps online retailers to track packages and send out delivery updates automatically improving customer service after shipping. Today Aftership records 12 million shipments per day! Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
TechEmergence founder & CEO Dan Faggella is an entrepreneur and speaker focused on business and research trends and analysis at the intersection of technology and intelligence (particularly, artificial intelligence and neurotech). He founded and presently runs Science of Skill, LLC, a seven-figure digital publishing company. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Anne Ahola Ward is an SEO, Futurist, and CEO of CircleClick Media, founded in 2009. She has nearly 20 years of experience working on the web in various functions. She was a developer for 10 years, and through her love of analytics, Anne transitioned into the field of SEO as the field was forming. Ward is currently writing the next SEO book for O'Reilly, entitled Mastering the SEO Battlefield, due to be published in October 2016. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Jen O'Neal is the Founder and CEO of Tripping.com, company founded in 2010. Since then, she's raised over $21M in funding from investors in Silicon Valley, New York, Europe and Asia. After the company's Series B financing, the Wall Street Journal reported Tripping.com's pre-money valuation to be $100 Million. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Maria Sipka is the Co-founder & President of Linqia, the first performance-based influencer marketing platform, tying influencers and content to business results. The Linqia platform has delivered and analyzed thousands of campaigns for brands and their agencies. Founded in 2012, Linqia works with leading national brands including AT&T, Black & Decker, Clarins, Disney, Gap, General Mills, Method, NBC, Nestle, Microsoft, Samsung, SC Johnson, Unilever, Viacom, Walmart and Western Digital. Linqia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Cody Forrester is the Director of Business Operations at Fundera, the easiest way to shop and save on a small business loan. Fundera has raised a total of $15 million and has helped secure more than $120 million in credit for more than 2,500 small businesses since launch. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Rob Sobers is a hacker/designer turned marketer. He has been working in growth at Varonis for the past 4 years. Rob has also built a product called Munchkin Report and co-authored Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Dennis Yu is the CTO of BlitzMetrics. He is an internationally recognized lecturer in Facebook marketing, having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, National Public Radio, TechCrunch, Fox News, and CBS Evening News. He is also a regular contributor for Adweek's SocialTimes column. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Tam Su is Senior Director of Product at Crimson Hexagon, where he focuses on product innovation and customer experience. Tam has 17 years of experience as a product innovator having spent time at Fortune 500 and a variety of early stage companies leading both UX and product management practices. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
John Egan works in the growth team at Pinterest where he has spearheaded several projects that cumulatively have helped add millions of WAUs. Previously, John led the growth engineering team at Shopkick, a cross-retailer mobile loyalty app funded by Kleiner-Perkins & Greylock Partners which was acquired by SK Planet for $200MM. At Shopkick he helped grow the userbase 8x from 1MM users to 8MM users primarily through invites, geofencing, & push notifications. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Peter Reinhardt is CEO and co-founder of Segment. He studied Aerospace Engineering at MIT and fell into the world of customer data and analysis when he started the company with three college friends. Segment was part of Y Combinator in the summer of 2011, it raised a Series B from Thrive and Accel, and now has nearly 6,000 customers. Segment's core product is a clean API for collecting customer data and a platform for partners to build on top of that data. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Justin Brooke is the founder of IMScalable, a digital ad agency that manages millions per month for supplement companies, software companies, and publishing companies. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Eli Regalado is the chief of madness at Launch Lab. He launches products and services mostly in the tech and consumer products space using viral web tactics and data backed research. He's personally crowdfunded over 1mm and has had over 10,000 students go through his online crowdfunding course. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Ivko Maksimovic is in fact one of the top Facebook app developers of all time. His apps were the fastest growing among those who started after Facebook publicly opened their API, getting from 500k-800k Users Per Day with a team of 5 people. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Rand Fishkin is the founder and former CEO of Moz, co-author of a pair of books on SEO, and co-founder of Inbound.org. Rand's an unsavable addict of all things content, search, & social on the web, from his multiple blogs to all over Social Media. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Laura Klein has spent 20 years as an engineer, product manager and designer in Silicon Valley. Her goal is to help startups learn about their customers so that they can build better products faster. She is the author of UX for Lean Startups and Voice Interface Design, and her new book, Build Better Products is coming out later this year. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Phil Dillard is an independent consultant and trainer with the Lean Startup Company. Phil helps early stage and growth companies develop and implement strategies and processes that build a foundation for profitable growth. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Andrei Marinescu is the Distribution Partner in 500 Startups. He was also the first marketing hire at Hulu, launched Hulu Plus and grew the business to over 3M paying subscribers ($500M annual revenue run rate) in 18 months. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Nihal Parthasarathi is the CEO of CourseHorse, the leading marketplace that helps people discover and enroll in trusted local classes, which he co-founded with Katie Kapler in 2010. Responsible for the company's fundraising, business development, and school-relationship management, he is based in its headquarters in downtown Manhattan. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Stephane Ibos co-founded Maestrano in 2012. The company is widely recognized as revolutionizing the way SMBs use Cloud systems thanks to its globally patented core technology Connec!™. Maestrano now has offices in the US, Australia, Singapore, the UK and Dubai and has fostered global partnerships with major market players. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Susan Su is a partner at 500 Startups, and specializes in helping portfolio companies with growth through inbound / content marketing and email. She has previously run marketing and growth for Inside Network (acquired byWebMediaBrands in 2011), AppSumo.com, and Ramit Sethi. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Travis Ketchum is the founder of Contest Domination, a tool that allows companies to create contests that spread virally across the Internet and grow email lists. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Hernan Jaramillo is the Founder of TareasPlus, the largest educational marketplace in Spanish that he grew leveraging his Youtube and SEO skills. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Eder Holguin is the CEO of Favoredby and President of Live Vote. He is a Serial Entrepreneur, Digital Sales and Marketing Expert with more than 15 years of industry expertise helping companies scale revenue, optimize Sales and Marketing processes and improve productivity. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
William Griggs is founder of Startup Slingshot, an Austin-based startup focused on helping entrepreneurs launch and grow their business. Over his career, he has helped numerous startups including companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Techstars, FLOODGATE, & 500 Startups with their marketing/growth needs. In addition to William's work with startups, he has written for Mashable, OnStartups, TheNextWeb, VentureBeat, Under30CEO, & ReadWrite. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Emerson Spartz is one of the world's leading experts on internet virality and has been featured in major media including the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, CBS, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. As the CEO of Dose, the company behind Dose.com and OMG Facts, he runs one of the world's fastest-growing digital media companies with 50 million unique visitors per month. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Andrea is the co-founder and CEO of Mailbird, a productivity powerhouse packed into an email client made for Windows users. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Jeremiah Gardner helps organizations reframe the way they approach brand innovation, culture, and leadership. He is the author of the bestselling book, The Lean Brand and Principal at Moves The Needle where he empowers companies like GE, Sprint, eBay, Intuit, and Cisco to practice Lean Innovation. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Ben is the co-founder of Conversion Rate Experts, a Google-authorized consultancy that shows companies how to convert their websites' visitors into customers. Ben has helped to grow web businesses in many highly competitive industries, working with companies such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Lloyds Banking Group, GQ, and Sony—plus some other fantastic less-well-known businesses. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Vasil Azarov is a digital marketer turned into event producer and entrepreneur. He leads Startup Socials, a global community of entrepreneurs with chapters in 15 cities. He also produces the Growth Marketing Conference, the Startup Sales Conference and a digital marketing webcasts channel. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Dr. David Darmanin, a conversion rate expert, brought the Hotjar team together in early 2014. Hotjar is a European startup headquartered on the island of Malta. Their founding team includes experts in Product / SaaS Development, Web Marketing, User Experience and Conversion Rate Optimization. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Wade Foster is the co-founder & CEO of Zapier, a platform that automates your workflow. He went from Startup Weekend hack project, to a Y Combinator startup, to platform that has grown from 50 to 500 integrations. He also helped coin the term "full stack marketer". Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Chris Hicken is the President of UserTesting, a platform that records video+audio of real customers using your website. He has driven ultra-fast growth at back to back companies and will share some of those stories today. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online, graphics-design service, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and executive fellow at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and ten other books. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Chuck Longanecker is the Founder of Digital-Telepathy, a User Experience Design agency that has provided design, strategy and growth services for hundreds of successful startups and internet pioneers. They've also grown a few startups of their own including Hello Bar (acquired 2012), SlideDeck (acquired 2014) and Filament. Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Peep Laja is the founder of ConversionXL: the world's most popular CRO blog, a conversion optimization agency and a training company. He specializes in helping companies get more revenue from their site. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Steven Aldrich is an entrepreneur and business leader who helped grow multiple companies by creating and growing teams, improving the customer experience, building partnerships, and championing acquisitions (two companies Steven founded were purchased by Intuit and GoDaddy). He is now the Senior Vice-President of Business Applications at GoDaddy, the company that acquired his last product, Outright. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Rob Walling is a serial startup founder, author and angel investor. His latest startup is email marketing platform Drip. In his spare time he runs a conference for self-funded startups called MicroConf, and hosts a popular podcast called Startups for the Rest of Us. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Tim Paige is the Conversion Educator at LeadPages. An experienced marketer in all forms of media, Tim spends his days speaking to the most successful marketers across multiple industries, along with business owners looking to increase their marketing efforts. In his short time at LeadPages, Tim has already helped grow their customer-base to 40,000 and increase their list by another 100,000 leads. He is a husband, father, and die-hard Syracuse Orange fan. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Ivan Kirigin is the founder of YesGraph, a tool that helps your business grow by recommending exactly who a user should invite. Before that, he helped Dropbox drive 12X growth over 2 years and worked on Facebook's virtual currency. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Lincoln Murphy is SaaS Marketing & Business Model Expert, revolutionizing the industry as a Growth Hacker & Customer Success Strategist. Since 2006, he has directly helped 300+ SaaS companies accelerate their growth by optimizing the Customer Lifecycle, from customer acquisition to retention. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourse For more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, an analytics tool for businesses on Stripe, which he took from $0 to $300,000 in the first year. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Dmitry Dragilev is a growth hacker and the founder fo Criminally Prolific, an agency that helps people grow and accelerate their businesses. Before that he worked at Zurb as Marketing Lead and at Crossloop, as Product Marketer where he helped grow the company user base from 200.000 users to 5 million users. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Tony Stubblebine is the Founder and Chief of Coach.me, a platform to get instant access to all kind of coaches around the world. Coach.me uses coaching, community and data to help you be your best. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Sundeep Reddy is the Head of Marketing of Orobind, an app to discover fitness coaches around you. Orobind is making it extremely easy for people to be healthy. Orobind also went from 0 to 5000 users in just 2 days without spending any money. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Clark Dinnison is the founder of Noon Pacific, a weekly mixtape of the best songs handpicked from the best music blogs and delivered to your inbox every Monday. Noon Pacific has grown to reach 4th place on the paid Music section of the App Store (now free), and has received accolades from New York Times, USA Today, Lifehacker and Twelve South. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Daniel Russell is the founder at Attentiv, the ultimate decision-making software. Attentiv has already signed up clients such as Ernst & Young and tackles everything from setting an agenda to offering a channel for anonymous communication. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Benji Hyam is a growth marketer based in San Francisco. Currently, he is the Director of Growth for Everwise, a company that is re-imagining the way organizations develop their people. Everwise uses a combination of mentorship, data, and software to customize the learning experience around the needs of each employee. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Brent Halliburton is an entrepreneur and tech executive. He started Group Cortex, a professional services firm acquired by The Hackett Group. He also founded Deconstruct, a company which was acquired later by Verve Mobile, where Brent led Product as Verve grew 100x in annual revenue. Brent is an Entrepreneur in Residence and currently consults start-ups and tech companies. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Joshua Dorkin is the founder and CEO of BiggerPockets, a community of over 300.000 real estate professionals and investors so they can learn, network, market and make deals in a safe online environment. Josh has been featured in CNBC, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, NPR and many more amazing publications. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com
Daryl Hatton is the Founder of Fundrazr, a crowdfunding application that enables people raise money for all sorts of causes. He is also an Advisory Board Member for several companies and a Board Member of the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada. Remember to download our 10- day Growth Hacking course for free at https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com/freecourseFor more information and resources, visit https://www.growthhackingpodcast.com