Hacking Growth
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Hacking Growth

Sean Ellis;Morgan Brown

4.3638 learners

Hacking Growth, the definitive playbook for scaling businesses in the digital era, outlines a systematic, data-driven framework to achieve explosive, sustainable growth without draining marketing budgets. Co-created by growth hacking pioneer Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown, this methodology centers on cross-functional teams that break down silos between engineering, marketing, and data teams to run rapid, iterative experiments. Covering every stage of the user lifecycle—acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization—the book uses real-world case studies from Dropbox, Hotmail, Airbnb, and more to show how to identify your product’s 'aha moment', set a North Star Metric to align teams, and build a repeatable growth engine. It also addresses common pitfalls like growth stagnation, offering strategies to keep innovating and adapting to market shifts. Whether you’re a startup founder or corporate leader, this book turns growth from a lucky break into a predictable, scalable process.

Cross-functional TeamsMonetizationA/B TestingGrowth HackingNorth Star Metric
Concept

Active Friction Design

Moderate, user-friendly obstacles during onboarding, which deepens users' understanding of product value and boosts long-term engagement.

Product DesignOnboardingUser Activation
Method

Optimize Onboarding Flow

1. Map full user path leading to aha moment; 2. Build funnel report to find top 3 high loss nodes; 3. Test tweaks to eliminate friction and add proper active friction.

OnboardingUser ActivationUX
Scenario

Twitter Onboarding Tweak

Twitter found users who follow over 30 accounts have far higher retention, so it optimized new user guide to push users follow enough accounts, lifting retention a lot.

Case StudyUser ActivationSocial Product
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