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Kei Watanabe's avatar

"At its core, growth is about impact." This statement reminds me of your ICE prioritization framework.

Also, we're easily chasing vanity metrics, so I rethink whether we're doing the right things.

"One of the biggest traps I see—especially in venture-backed startups—is chasing numbers that look like growth, but aren’t." Thank you for the great post and reminder, Sean!

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Ethan Garr's avatar

Having been in the Maven session, I appreciated the way you connected the dots between growth and "impact" and like how you have expanded on that here. Figuring out how to ensure that impact is measurable and thereby actionable I believe closes the loop.

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Charu's avatar

A thought-provoking piece to evaluate and review 'Growth'. I was just wondering are there any specific metrics that can help us qualify the same - CAC, CLTV, ARR, Churn etc. Can we connect the impact with numbers?

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Taylor Miles's avatar

What do you think about the companies that place so much emphasis on revenue that the growth engine never gets going? No Free trials, No freemium Just a form for demo.

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