6 Startup Growth Strategies from a Forbes Top VC | Seed to Billion Dollar IPO | Office Hours Ep.3
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Ok, you just got funded. But how do you grow your startup to a billion dollar IPO? It turns out, there's a formula. Learn what it is, along with 6 tips from me on how to do that in this week's episode of Office Hours.
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0:46 How Do You Grow?
1:24 Tip 1 -- PR
1:56 How Soylent used PR
0:55 Tip 2 -- Sales and Marketing
2:35 Controversy Sells
3:06 Tip 3 -- Content Marketing
3:18 How OkCupid used Content Marketing
3:47 Tip 4 -- SEO
4:08 How Zapier's used SEO
5:02 Google Ads
6:00 Tip 5 -- Influencers
6:17 How DTC Brands use Influencers
6:34 Tip 6: Partnerships
6:42 How Microsoft & IBM used partnerships
7:10 Recap!
I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $40 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $770M in assets under management.
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"History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme." This is a timeless quote.
Thanks for the books recommendation. It certainly helps for an engineer trained person with no sales background. For Microsoft, it was Bill Gates’s mom who knew and talked to IBM chairman of that time, and IBM was looking to hire to develop OS for its new PC. Basically all his stars are aligned to win the contract to supply MS-DOS to IBM PCs. Having the right connections at the right time are so crucial to get things really moving.
can you host a pitch session in your channel where early-stage startups can pitch their product in under 5 mins
Yes, this is perfect
It's amazing to see how much time and energy you spend to give knowledge to founders. I appreciate it a ton as a founder myself. Thank you and looking forward to more videos.
Thanks for the help. God knows startups need it.
This video is PRICELESS!!!
That's such an amazing video, Gary. Working in marketing myself but the new thing I learned is colonic kits. Would do more research on this. Thanks for sharing.
thanks for the content! Lately I've been realizing more and more that the CEO's personal branding pays huge dividends. As a consumer I think "hmm, do I trust this CEO to make great products?" But as CEO I think "oh geez...should I be making youtube videos..? and actually record myself talk...?"
Great Video. As a sales and marketing company, totally agree with everything.
So much of startup advice is geared towards younger folks (eg. eat ramen and share a living space with cofounders).
Do you have any advice for folks with families in late 30s and 40s?
What do you think of memes as a growth strategy?
Works great!
Another great video 😊 you make starting a start up less scary
VERY PRECIOUS INFORMATIONS!! You encourages people from all over the world... Thank you Garry!
Impactful as usual! Just a question, what’s your thoughts about a startup looking into sales & marketing before achieving product market fit?
Have to have the product and be able to sell it and get customers. Both. Miss one or the other and you lose.
This was super helpful! Thank you Gary
Glad it was helpful!
Always amazing content with engaging innovative thought process.
Hey Garry, can you make a video on what to do for founders that already outsourced the creation of the MVP? Thanks
would love to know how to approach investors and explaining my app without them replicating it instead of investing into it... is there a way? or is it always a risk you just have to take?
Mr Tan, you’re the man!! 💯💯🔥 these videos are great. some of the best on the internet
Thank you for your knowledge and videos. It motivated me to think 🤔 and use my brain 🧠 again.
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Amazing stories. Thank you!
Thanks George!
Awesome information ... it's so much to take in ... your extremely ... helpful .... this best video yet .... keep them coming ....
every success story have their own unique secret sauce of success and every failure is an opportunity to learn a good lesson. It will be nice if you can share insight on finding that seed with the potential to grow into a giant. The simple question is asking who are the potential customers and if the idea and its value proposition is good enough to fulfil the unfulfilled need. How do you find the unicorn seed? Is there a set of questions to ask or there are many checks based on intuition, past experience or simply trying to dig deeper with challenging questions? Next is what are the necessary skills as a founder(s) at every stage of growth that you need to acquire to stay effective as a CEO?
Extremely helpful, thank you Garry.
Thanks Gary, what study material do you recommend for start up founders.
Thanks, Garry! Was informative. I don't have a startup now but indeed I feel your advice will bring good apples in future. :)
When you do both content marketing and SEO how do you measure which one is working better? At the moment content marketing and partnerships seem to be working for lead generation, but wondering if SEO is an untapped marketing stream.
How do you recommend a startup to market itself in the beginning when they don’t have a cash flow yet?
Speaking of predictable revenue, have you heard of pipe? I've just heard about them they've got such a creative idea!
Yes things like that are going to do really well I think. All things that can be leant against will be.
Thanks for PR tips
Great stuff, thanks Garry!
Hi Garry do you have a way to summarize CZcams comments and extract insights from? Like get the top asked questions and recurring keywords
Great video Garry! Do you personally use Airtable?
Can't wait
Great content, Garry!
One more diamond level information.
Great stuff!
@garrytan you are priceless to startup founders like us. Keep mentoring us, maybe we would be sharing some ROI some other day to you for guiding us 😝
This Is Video is very valuable
Waiting
Thanks for books information
What's the camera you're using to film this? The image quality looks great.
Thank you!!!
Love the content. I an currently in the prototype phase for a product with an addressable market of 9 million people. I conduct a survey with 300 respondents from the target user group. Is this enough respondents to make a conclusion
thanks
Sir please subtitles too ..
Hey Garry, do you have a video on how you were able to get coverage with blogs and magazines?
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here's what you need Dennis
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I love your content and learn a lot from it. Waiting for the next one :D
I love you videos, I will be DMing you!
What’s a good way to organically getting featured in a magazine or Blog?
hmm what about enterprise tech startups?
Wow!
I have a soylent green logo on my cookies box. (from the movie :D)
great
How would someone who doesn't have access to top schools and cannot code get on the path to enter VC? Is the only option left to try and start a company with technical co-founders?
Yes you have to build and show real use and a way to build a profitable business. Incidentally even with the credentials or connections you must do the same.
🎉
Nice video Garry, keep them short please (
Bill Gates mum was on the IBM board at the time he got this deal. Load the board, sleep with the board, do anything to control the board.
Who edits your videos?
Seems like a lot of success comes down to navigating the "people maze". Fortunately for Gates, the partnership worked because Mary Gates was friends with John Opel (source: www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-helped-her-son-start-microsoft.html)
Advice on establishing partnerships for a first time/relatively unknown founder?
I’m just curious if the few peoples who disliked this video if they can share why they did?
Do things that don't scale. I heard a story about Evan Spiegal at the mall years ago going up to people and showing them snapchat.
Hello everyone, Im looking CTO for equity to my startup. Please, ask me for deck if you interested
Hi
What kind of business are you into?
Why so much focus on revenue based SaaS companies? Sure, they are far more likely to succeed, but that's because 90% of them are slapping a bit of tech on top of an ancient business model. Most of them will never be known to the general population, and will not change the world
This is how all other VC backed startups are benchmarked even if you are not that kind of business.
I am getting a 3x (2), 2x (3) tattoo on my lower back. It will be the geekiest tramp stamp on the beach.
Super usefull garry