1 twitter @meetsamir @Thenextweb Conference Dec 2nd, San paulo, Brazil
Jul 14, 2015
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@Thenextweb Conference
Dec 2nd, San paulo, Brazil
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The Growth Master
• Founder, CEO of DoRevolution and Growth
Mentor at 500Startups Silicon Valley,
Optimized $1B+ in Ads.
• Founder of SearchForce and pioneer to apply
Wall Street Analytics and Quantitative Trading
Techniques to Advertising for Portfolio
Optimization. Raised $10M+ in financing,
developed a Cross-Channel Optimization SaaS
Platform Based and took the company to
profitability.
• MBA in Brand Marketing from Cornell's Johnson
School of Business.
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DoRevolution Growth Services
• Growth Marketing & Analytics
– Google Adwords
– Facebook Ads
– Mobile Advertising
– Retargeting
– SEO : On-page & Off-page
– Analytics: Google Analytics, Mixpanel,
Kissmetrics
• Growth Training Seminars for CEO’s, CMO’s
and Staff
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Moneyball for Growth
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How to Build a Growth Engine
• Scalable
• Repeatabl
e
• Predictab
le
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BOTS Take Over Social Selling
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Automate Visits to Profiles
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Profile Current & Clear Action
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Be Vanilla or a Gorilla
International Ice Cream Association the Top 10 flavours of ice cream in order are: vanilla,
chocolate, butter pecan, strawberry, neapolitan, chocolate chip, french vanilla and cookies ‘n’ cream.
Vanilla (#1) got approximately 28% of sales and chocolate (#2) got approximately 8% of sales.
The rest got 6% or less.
In this instance, being #1 makes you 350% better off than #2.
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Dave McClure Startup
Ecosystem
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• 1,000 Bootstrap Startups ($0-10K)
• = 1,000 Parents/Garages/Basements @ $0-500/mo food+rent
• 300 Accelerator Startups ($10-100K)
• = 10-20 Accelerators @ $1-5M/yr, 20-50 co’s/yr
• 100 Seed-Stage Startups ($100K-$1M)
• = 5-10 Micro-VC Funds @ $10-30M/yr, 10-20 co’s/yr
• 30 Series A/B Startups ($1-10M)
• = 3-5 Early-Stage Funds @ $25-100M/yr, 5-10 co’s/yr
• 10 Later-Stage Companies ($10-100M)
• = 2-3 Later-Stage Funds @ $50-250M/yr, 3-5 co’s/yr
• 1-3 Mature Company IPOs ($100M+)
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- McKinsey & Company
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- McKinsey & Company
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Growth Trumps all Metrics
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• High growth companies return 5X more to
share holders
• Growth predicts long-term success
• SuperGrowers (growth rate >60%) when
reached $100M were 8X more likely to
reach $1B than ones <20% growth rate
• Growth matters more than margin or cost
structure. Increases in revenue growth rates
drive 2X as much market cap gains
- McKinsey & Company
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Action
Grow Fast
or
Die Slow
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But Growth is Hard
• Law of Vanilla Ice-cream
• Rapid Evolution of Platforms
• Increasing precision brings
complexity
• Speed & Machines
• Lots of Money at Stake
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Platforms 2.0Search, Social, Mobile,
Video, Messaging
$100M+ Users
~ Dave McClure
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A Zillion Ways to Acquire Users
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Hyper Inflation & Irrational
Bidders
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Efficient Markets
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Easy to Lose Money
It’s Complex.
Know if you don’t know.
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SEO is not JUST SEO
~ Rand Fishkin, Wizard, Moz
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Unprecedented Complexity
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Action
Reflect on your current
knowledge and feel the gap
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Precision Marketing
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Action : A Historical Opportunity
Laser-Like
Precision Marketing
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The Rise of the Machines
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High-frequency trading factoids
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High-frequency trading factoids
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Hedge fund Spent
$300M to increase speed by
3 Milliseconds
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Billions at Stake
~ Rand Fishkin, Wizard, Moz
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Google Pays $500M for AI
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~ Rand Fishkin, Wizard, Moz
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Self-Aware Robots
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Elon Going to Mars
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You vs. (Machines +
Geniuses)
Do you have
DataStarson your team?
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Actions• Grow Fast or Die Slow
• Markets are hyper-competitive and inflated
• Companies are using Artificial Intelligence,
Math and Stats to gain competitive
advantage
• Companies are hiring the best and brightest
minds and paying billions for them. It’s the
TEAM stupid.
• Easy to spend money, hard to make money
• Bottom-line : Pay attention OR you will end
up in the dead pool.
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People
• Key
Qualities
• Quant
Skills
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9 Qualities of World Class Growth
Teams• Possess Action-Driven Thinking
• Rapid Learners of Dynamically Changing
Marketing Channels and Growth Platforms
• Understand Growth Process
• Are Highly Product-Savvy
• Have a Hustle Mindset
• Possess a Cross-Disciplinary Skillset
• Connect Marketing to Product Development
• Possess Technical Acumen
• Hiring connections
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Platforms
• Data Use / Action Ninjas /
GrowthStack
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Data Storage & Retrieval
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How Big is your Data?
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PUKING
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Market Research & User Feedback
Email Marketing
Competitive Research Tools Sales Intelligence
Lead & Customer Acquisition
AB / Multivariate Testing
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Your Eyes are ‘Analytics’
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Website.com
Emails &
widgets
Campaigns,
Contests
Biz DevAds, Lead Gen,
Subscriptions, etc
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
1. ACQUISITION
SEOSEM
Apps &
Widgets
Affiliates
PR Biz
Dev
Campaigns,
Contests
Direct, Tel,
TV
Social
NetworksBlogs
Domains
Emails &
Alerts
Blogs,
Content
System Events &
Time-based Features
~ Dave McClure
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Process
•KPI’s
• Growthaly
tics
• Kaizen
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~ Brian Balfour
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Action
Establish Clear, Quantifiable
Goals.
Think Attribution Modeling.
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Customer Lifecycle
• Acquisition: users come to the site from various channels
• Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience
• Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
• Referral: users like product enough to refer others
• Revenue: users conduct some monetization behaviorAARRR!
~ Dave McClure, 500Startups
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Action
Think
Lifecycle.
Customer
Journeys.
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Framework
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Experiment
• Objective
• Hypothesis
• Design
• Resource Estimation
• Results
• Findings
• Action Items
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Action
You must Breathe
Continuous Improvement
69twitter @meetsamirEstablish Objectives and Key
Results (OKRs)
• Set your objective based on what’s going to
have the greatest impact on your business
right away
• Establish a timeline for testing
• Set multiple Key Results (KRs) based on
level of difficulty:
KR 1 – 90% chance of success. You did a good job.
KR 2 – 50% chance of success. You did a great job.
KR 3 – 10% chance of success. You hit it out of the park!
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Example -- Growth via Adwords:
Target : Lower their CPA for accredited investor signups via AdWords without a significant drop in conversion volume.
1. Focus on Search Network to drive lower CPA
2. Set timeline for 60 days
3. Three Key Results will be attempted:
• KR1 -- (90% change of success): Raise conversion volume by 10% by focusing on strategic bid modifications RLSA audience lists.
• KR2 – (50% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% by limiting the keywords they buy to high performing terms only, and setting location bid modifications by income-tier.
• KR3 – (10% chance of success): Lower CPA by 20% and raise conversion volume by 10% by combining these two strategies.
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Action
Run Growth
Teams on
OKR’S.
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It’s the Questions that drive
Change
1. Do you have millisecond strategy?
2. Have you identified a Growth Team?
3. Do you run Growth as Risk & Portfolio Management?
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Samir [email protected]
President & CEO,
DoRevolution
Growth Mentor
@500Startups
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