Don't Listen to Your Users

If you invest in growth before you have retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring them. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) This post originally appeared on Medium. Gillian’s startup Hitlist was the People’s Choice Award Winner at our...
Don’t Listen to Your Users

Don’t Listen to Your Users

If you invest in growth before you have retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring them. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) This post originally appeared on Medium. Gillian’s startup Hitlist was the People’s Choice Award Winner at our...

How to Get 200K Users Without Spending a Dime

No marketing budget? No problem. Harness the power of email to reach hundreds and thousands of users. By Gillian Morris (Co-founder & CEO, Hitlist) First thing I need to say: there is no single thing that will get your app to 200,000 downloads with no marketing...

3 Startup Lessons Learned from Convore's Leah Culver

By Leah Culver (Founder & CEO, Convore) For my second startup Convore, I applied to Y Combinator because I wanted to be part of their alumni network. It’s a great way to test out a product — with thousands of Y Combinator alumni. Convore was accepted...