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John Egan
Personal blog · jwegan.com/growth-hacking · on HN as jweganstartupsbusiness
John Egan's personal blog at jwegan.com covers startups and business. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Autopsy of a Failed Growth Hack”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Egan's growth and product writing as a source of insight. One commenter cites his growth-hacking posts as the origin of their own ideas on customer development.
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Growth Engineering @ Anthropic
Most-linked posts?
- Autopsy of a Failed Growth Hack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-06
What Hacker News says?
I actually used something similar to this (but not as sophisticated) at a previous startup to generate recommendations of people to invite to the app because the app's target demographic was women ages 20-40. http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/hacking-mobile-invites-with...
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on “How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name”Submitted The Startup Guide to Managing Your Email Reputation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHave always enjoyed these guys http://andrewchen.co/ Andrew Chen of Uber http://jwegan.com/ John Wegan of Pinterest Probably more growth/product focused than PG and SA, but definitely give some excellent insight.
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on “Ask HN: Who are some writers/thinkers similar to Paul Graham and Sam Altman?”Submitted How Pinterest increased MAUs with one simple trick as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDon't patronize me. Please, explain me what is wrong with my concept. Basically, I agree with these guys: http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/autopsy-of-a-failed-growth-... and http://www.aginnt.com/post/46854446756/interview-a-growth-ha... That's where my concepts come from. If you think that me saying "customer development" is BS and that I should be trying to grow like hell and not wasting time with delusional custo…
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on “Ask HN: Before there were MOOCs - advice for a startup”Submitted The 27 Metrics in Pinterest’s Internal Growth Dashboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Hire Growth Engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Growth Hacker's Guide to Push Notifications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets to Effective Geofencing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Mobile Invites With The Help of the U.S. Government as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 Metrics Every Growth Hacker Should Be Watching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving the Web-to-Mobile Conversion Problem: Show, Don't Tell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics in Pinterest's Internal Growth Dashboard (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiment Segmentation: Avoiding Old Dogs and Watered Down Results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Do Features Drive Growth? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should be using ROI to run your growth team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 Growth Metrics You Should Be Watching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autopsy of a Failed Growth Hack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Growth - Analysis of Dropbox Invites as a story · 1 points
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