Explosive Growth Quotes

“I Don’t Care How Great Your Product Is. Tell Me How You’re Going to Grow…Fast People approach me all the time for advice on investments and ideas. The first thing I ask them is, “What’s your plan to acquire thousands of targeted users?” Inevitably, most people’s response is, “I don’t know exactly, but my product is so friggin’ unique, it’s going to blow people away! We’re going to get a ton of press and everybody will fall”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” —Jack Welch, author and CEO of GE from 1981-2001”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“#ExplosiveGrowthTip 7: A few fanatical customer advocates are worth more than hundreds or even thousands of casual signups. Fanatical users will supply word-of-mouth growth, while providing the necessary feedback to iterate on the product. Do you have at least twenty fanatical users or a plan to get them?”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“#ExplosiveGrowthTip 6: Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. Do you have a plan to validate your ideas cheaply?”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Book Recommendation: Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger.”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller.”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Good to Great and Built to Last, both by Jim Collins, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish, and a bunch of books by Patrick Lencioni: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Death by Meeting, and Five Dysfunctions of the Team: A Leadership Fable.”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, by G. Richard Shell.”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel.”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

“Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims and The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create”
― Cliff Lerner, Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million