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How to Scale your Startup with Growth Levers: Matt Lerner

2024/6/13
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Ali Abdaal:探讨了如何识别和利用增长杠杆来扩展初创企业,并与Matt Lerner一起分析了其自身业务的增长策略。他分享了在YouTube频道、课程和书籍等多个产品线上的经验,并探讨了如何平衡增长速度、内容新鲜度和个人生活。他还与Matt Lerner一起分析了其自身业务的增长策略,包括识别关键增长指标、设计增长实验以及优化组织结构等。 Ali Abdaal还表达了对保持内容新鲜感、避免过度依赖单一平台以及平衡增长与个人生活之间的挑战。他与Matt Lerner讨论了如何选择合适的增长策略,以及如何应对业务发展过程中的各种挑战和不确定性。 Ali Abdaal和Matt Lerner还探讨了如何建立一个高效的团队,以及如何平衡不同业务线之间的资源分配。他们还讨论了如何利用数据分析来指导决策,以及如何从错误中学习和改进。 Matt Lerner:分享了其在帮助初创企业找到增长杠杆方面的经验,并介绍了一个四步模型:绘制增长模型、了解客户旅程、设计和运行增长实验以及转变思维模式。他强调了专注于少数关键举措的重要性,并指出快速行动、勇于犯错以及从错误中学习是快速增长的关键。 Matt Lerner还强调了避免以营收为唯一目标的重要性,并指出应优先关注客户价值和客户获取。他还分享了在PayPal和500 Startups的经验,以及如何识别和利用增长杠杆来实现快速增长。 Matt Lerner还探讨了如何根据业务的不同阶段调整增长策略,以及如何平衡增长与稳定性之间的关系。他还强调了团队合作和跨部门协调的重要性,以及如何建立一个高效的组织结构来支持业务增长。

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Matt Lerner discusses his journey from working at PayPal to becoming a VC and eventually starting his own business, SYSTM, to help early-stage startups find their growth levers.

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In this episode of Deep Dive, I'm thrilled to interview Matt Lerner, the founder of SYSTM and author of "Growth Levers." Matt shares his wisdom on helping startups uncover their big growth levers, the challenges of decision-making and the pitfalls of focusing only on revenue.We also explore growth strategies like viral and authentic videos and the necessity of engaging and retaining viewers through positive feedback loops.This episode is packed with practical tips and strategies. I hope you find listening to it as enjoyable as I found recording it 🙂 

(00:00) Uncovering Growth Levers(12:45) Aligning Organisational Pieces for Growth(28:43) Deciding Which Ideas to Pursue(39:17) The Importance of Fresh Content(46:15) Measuring Monthly Returning Viewers and Conversion Rates(55:26) Monetisation Strategies: Sponsorships, Affiliates, and Own Products(01:19:07) Simplifying and Consolidating for Focus(01:24:13) Leveraging Podcast Episodes for YouTube Videos(01:32:23) Reevaluating the Business Model(02:01:01) De-risking the Business(02:06:26) Unlocking Bottlenecks (02:12:43) Doing Fewer Things and Making More Mistakes(02:21:30) Building a Portfolio of Small Businesses(02:28:22) The Importance of Clear Hypotheses and Documentation

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