Ranked #7 in Growth Hacking, Ranked #12 in Distribution — see more rankings.
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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Hacking Growth from the world's leading experts.
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Nir Eyal Author/HookedIt used to be that designers and engineers were responsible for developing new products, data teams were responsible for number-crunching reports, and marketers were responsible for acquiring and monetizing as many customers as possible. But today’s companies can’t afford to be slowed down by organizational silos. Here, growth-hacking pioneers Ellis and Brown show how to break down those traditional barriers and marry powerful data analysis, technical know-how, and marketing savvy to quickly devise and test ways to fuel breakout growth. (Source)
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Eric Ries Founder/Long-Term Stock ExchangeIn an increasingly erratic business landscape where new competition can emerge overnight, customers’ loyalties can shift unexpectedly, and markets are constantly being disrupted, finding growth solutions fast is crucial for survival. Hacking Growth provides a compelling answer to this urgent need for speed, offering companies a methodology for finding and optimizing new strategies to increase their market share and quickly. (Source)
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Dan Olsen Recommends this book
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Sean Ellis Recommends this book
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Sean Ellis Recommends this book
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Kyrylo Taranenko The book is new (2017) and growthhacking is a real trend right now. (Source)
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Annabell Satterfield Hacking Growth is the definitive guide to building authentic, sustainable, compounding growth for your company. If you want to know how proven growth practitioners at fast-growing companies do what they do-- pick up this book. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Hacking Growth is ranked in the following categories:
- #26 in Consumer Behavior
- #24 in Digital Marketing
- #60 in Marketing
- #84 in Product Management
- #61 in Startup