Hack to a billion dollars in 3 years

Does Matt Barrie have an account on here?

Informative article.
Learnt something new today

This is an amazing article, and the one fact that really stood out to me was the amount of people not online yet. I have this misconception that everyone is using the Internet, but if these figures are true, this is just the beginning of the Internet explosion. There is a lot of room for growth for even a small fish like myself.

Good article but a little misleading title, lol. I thought Freelancer's revenue was 18M in 2013 with 700k profit?

He who hires the best statistician will be the most succesful in the future

Good article!

Q1; Why is his collar up? Has he just come back from rehearsals of the Grease re-make.

Q2: Sounds like he is talking about marketing. Can someone confirm he is talking about marketing? I got confused with all the fancy schmancy new ways of saying marketing other than to use the word marketing.

Q3: What does the title have to do with Freelancer or the article. Or is that another 'thing' people are doing?

Great article to share. Wish there were more advice articles for small startups and starting entrepreneurs. The idea of achieving this kind of growth without millions of dollars in investment can skew one's perception.

I guess firehose is a new marketing buzz word too. It is not what you say but how you say it,lol.

Nice article.

Wallstreet is obsessed with growth, that's what drives these companies to billion + dollar valuations. Userbase is the new currency IMHO

These companies are awesome at employing multidisciplinary, and very impressive, teams of scientist to achieve rapid growth in their user base which in terns triggers a love fest with investment bankers

This is relatively a new field and requires several top notch predictive scientists to pull off repeated success. The assumption that one analysis would lead to success in inaccurate. Its all probablistic and therefore based on assumptions that lead to the derivation of the probablistic model used. If the assumptions are incorrect or if the assumptions are correct for the existing circumstances; any pertubation of the system could lead to disasterous outcomes. All in all it in most circumstances that don't have super budgets this could be similar to rolling dice

I thought that was a GREAT article!

If that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what would.

Great info shared !

This is a false, straw-man argument, used to justify a term that itself is vague and unquantifiable. I'm sorry Alastair, but bragging about having a "PhD in Quantum Physics" on board made me laugh. Maybe I'm a little slow, but it would help if someone explained how quantum physics plays a role in "Growth Hacking".

Just take a look at the posted link on 23 ways to Growth Hack - which include things like posting to a blog. Or doing SEO. Really, SEO is growth hacking? Making a blog post? Social medial like making this forum post? Come on. That is why I say the term is meaningless and unquantifiable.

The fact is much "marketing" is already quantifiable and has never been limited to some absolute, linear growth process. The process of "one to many" is not new to the Internet. It goes back hundreds of years to the printing press. What does Matt think newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio are if not one to many mediums?

Yes, the Internet affords even greater, worldwide opportunities of reach. Tools change.

The idea of Internet companies growing fast for sake of getting big is hardly new. Then came the dot com implosion. Growth without profits is called debt and ultimately a dead company. Growth, even with profits means little. Can you believe AOL once bought Time Warner?

But I will say this - taking one part of "marketing" - saying it is new, relabeling it and calling it "Growth Hacking" - is smart marketing.

But I'd leave off the reference to quantum physics. From now on, every time I read about "growth hacking" I am going to think of quantum physics.

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Enjoyed reading that, a great article, appreciate the share.

Richard

Good article, i enjoyed

Nice article, thanks for the link.

Great article and yes, I learned something. Keep it coming!

Enjoyed the read, thank you for sharing!

Awesome information. It definitely feels like a spin on black hat methods. Enjoyed this article

After reading the article I still feel like I know the same amount about the topic. I mean, providing me examples of successful businesses does not illustrate the topic. Not trying to be negative, but the entire page just read like an SEO copy for someone looking to rank for the keyword firehose.

Good article, i enjoyed

My growth hacks: find a way to get a few first members to your club. Make them active and let them invite their friends to your (closed, invite only) club. Give your members 1 credit per day to invite only 1 friend.
And look how your club growth exponentially.

Facebook was an elitish, invite only club first.
Pinterest was an invite only club first (and someone called it the fastest growing social network later).

Help your members in making their own content and let them distribute it across a few social networks and so on.

Great Article! by Matt Barrie

nice article

Thanks for a good read I learned couple things I will try for my site & business

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Inspiring article! Thanks.

Great article, really got me thinking!

Thanks for sharing this great article. It give me insight for my future business

Thanks for sharing this article. Very insightful!

Great article from a top Influencer on LinkedIn!

great share, thanks for this 1...

Nice article, thanks for the link.

The article doesn't state anything new, but it gave me a great idea, so I'm happy I've run into it.
Thank you

Impressive marketing effort, Matt!
"There's plenty more distribution firehoses that people have yet to figure out fully; Twitter (followers & search), Reddit (readers), Amazon (buyers), Kickstarter (financiers), YouTube (watchers) and my company, Freelancer (workers)."
So you suggest here to consider your company in the same league with Twitter, Amazon, and Youtube?
Nice try!

nice article - went to sit outside to think about it...

Thanks for sharing this link that tells about hacking the growth and that growth is talking about in billions of businesses.

Proud to be a WF member who's owner puts out intelligent articles that are worth taking out a few hours on Sunday to read. Aces!

Thanks for this article.

I liked this phrase in the article: "You should have zero advertising spend. If your growth isn’t viral, it’s fake." Of course you need a nice infrastructure and a good valued product/service which creates engagement and people share with love.

The another learning lesson: distribution firehoses. Thats a good idea to build on.

Yo!!! That was a sick article lol. That makes so much sense. Facebook is a huge distribution firehouse. I use to be able to growth hack with promoted posts but they took that feature away. Was too powerful. For $6 you could over extend your presence across your friends list as well as people who you tagged in a post.

I never knew Rovio was the first company to reach the top of the charts. Thats amazing. I think PewdiePie the YouTuber understands growth hacking he is the #1 channel in the world. There is a theory going around that since he was from out of the states he brought his old following and started to grow a US following as well

But the name of the game is get in early on trends. A billion dollars doesn't sound so distant anymore. Thanks for sharing!

whoahh, thats crazy, that's crime. But for purpose learning i think that's not bad