7 episodes

Do you sometimes wonder what other startups do to grow?

Wish you could take a quick peek behind the curtain of their success?

Welcome to How Top Startups Grow, a show for bootstrapped founders featuring bootstrapped founders and candid chats about how they've been growing their products.

We talk about what worked, what didn’t, what challenges they faced, and how they've dealt with those, too, and a whole lot more.

Enjoy!

How Top Startups Grow Pawel Grabowski

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Do you sometimes wonder what other startups do to grow?

Wish you could take a quick peek behind the curtain of their success?

Welcome to How Top Startups Grow, a show for bootstrapped founders featuring bootstrapped founders and candid chats about how they've been growing their products.

We talk about what worked, what didn’t, what challenges they faced, and how they've dealt with those, too, and a whole lot more.

Enjoy!

    How Craig Hewitt Grows Castos with Video Content

    How Craig Hewitt Grows Castos with Video Content

    FACT: Video is taking over content marketing.
    But it’s not just because we create more videos. Our audiences seem to prefer this form of consuming content, too.
    But how do you use video to grow a startup? Where do you start? How do you pick topics to cover?
    In this episode of How Top Startups Grow, I chat with the amazing Craig Hewitt about exactly that.
    We discuss how Craig uses video to promote his company, Castos.com, his setup and workflow, and an absolutely amazing AI-driven process for outlining videos.

    • 51 min
    Lessons Learned Growing Two Startups At the Same Time

    Lessons Learned Growing Two Startups At the Same Time

    Can you grow a startup by focusing on fewer growth channels? 
    Spoiler: Absolutely! (In fact, my guest advises you to do exactly just that.)
    In this episode, I chat with Jack Paxton, the founder of Vyper.io and Hyax. We dive deep into the importance of figuring out what aspect of your product is essential for customers, the benefits of focusing on just one or two growth channels, and how to test your product idea when you have no actual users.
    Enjoy!

    • 38 min
    How Wisepops Double Their Organic Traffic YoY

    How Wisepops Double Their Organic Traffic YoY

    Sounds like a pipe dream, right?
    100% traffic growth year on year.... 350% increase in trial users signing up directly on blog articles within the same timeframe....
    And yet these are the exact results my guest's company achieves. 
    In this interview, we dive in pretty deeply into how they're doing it, from how they structure the SEO strategy to execution. 
    It's super exciting stuff. 
    Enjoy!

    • 55 min
    How KeywordInsights.ai Used a Brand-first Approach to Building Organic Growth

    How KeywordInsights.ai Used a Brand-first Approach to Building Organic Growth

    Can you achieve incredible organic growth by focusing on building a brand first? Absolutely, and my guest on this episode—Andy Chadwick from Keyword Insights—tells a fantastic story of how they did just that. Plus, you get to hear about the strategies that absolutely failed, and even cost Keyword Insights a good chunk of money. 
    Oh, and you also learn about a rap battle with a giant in their niche... 
    Enjoy.
     
    Chapters:
    (00:19) Building Organic Growth With Keyword Insights(12:48) Effective Marketing Strategies and Failures(25:09) Managing Expectations and Growth in Business(31:25) The Future of Content Marketing and Trends

    • 39 min
    How Plausible Analytics Achieved Phenomenal Organic Growth by Saying No to Pretty Much All Marketing Strategies

    How Plausible Analytics Achieved Phenomenal Organic Growth by Saying No to Pretty Much All Marketing Strategies

    Is it possible to say no to pretty much all typical startup growth strategies and still achieve phenomenal growth? In this episode, I’m chatting with Marko Saric from Plausible Analytics, a fantastic web analytics startup that achieved just that.  Highly recommend listening.

    • 43 min
    How Userlist Built Their Organic Growth, Interview with Jane Portman

    How Userlist Built Their Organic Growth, Interview with Jane Portman

    This is the first interview I’ve conducted for Stacking Pancakes, and it turned out to be an incredible one. 
    In this episode, I’m chatting with Jane Portman, the CEO of Userlist, a fantastic email marketing automation startup about what it was like for them to get into SEO. Discover how Userlist launched and built their SEO program, what challenges Jane and her team encountered, and how they are scaling their efforts now. 

    • 36 min

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