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Why Growth Hackers are a Good Thing

January 6, 2017January 2, 2017 Mike Seidle Leave a comment marketing

I’m loving watching the online marketing universe’s collective head explode over “growth hackers”. Incidentally, here are six reasons you shouldn’t ever hire a growth hacker. Which sound about like six reasons you shouldn’t ever hire _________ kind of marketer.

There’s only two rules in marketing, and growth hackers have it figured out.

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Startup Tools

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Mike Seidle Leave a comment Biz, Blog, startups

So many tools, so little time. If you are working in a startup, you have even less time. Here are a few tools that have helped me quickly build WorkHere:

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Be Positive With Other Startups

March 29, 2016March 27, 2016 Mike Seidle Leave a comment startups

When you are out raising money, you run into startups that make you wonder: How did they get money for that idea? Remember that all startups, even yours and mine are grand, high risk experiments. There’s so much risk. So many things that can go wrong that have nothing to do with the idea. Running a […]

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Raising Money is Harder than it Looks

February 18, 2016March 27, 2016 Mike Seidle Leave a comment Biz, Blog, startups

Whew. We’re in business at WorkHere. We’re in all the app stores, and we’re getting users. WorkHere is my fifth try at starting a business. WorkHere is also the first time I’ve raised money instead of bootstrapping. Turns out that raising money (especially outside Silicon Valley) is harder than it looks. There’s a few reasons that […]

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Failure / Success

November 16, 2015November 8, 2015 Mike Seidle Leave a comment Biz, Blog

I’m not really excited about celebrating failure, although events like FailFest are fun – and you can learn a ton from failure. Failure is usually the default state. Sometimes, people go out of the way to find a way to fail. Celebrating failure is like celebrating the fact that it’s Thursday. If you want failure, change nothing, […]

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