Growth Hacking Tools
Strategies, tools, and frameworks for rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to accelerate business growth.
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Free Cohort Retention & LTV Calculator
Project lifetime value and revenue decay from a single user cohort using realistic retention curves. Fits a power-law decay through your three observed retention points (M1, M3, M12) instead of assuming flat retention. Calculates 24-month LTV, payback period, magic number against CAC, and the cumulative revenue curve a board deck actually wants to see.
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Growth Readiness Scorecard
Assess your company's readiness for rapid growth across 8 dimensions: product-market fit, data infrastructure, experimentation velocity, channel diversity, team capability, unit economics, retention, and content/SEO. Get a score and a prioritized action plan.
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Free Product-Led Growth (PLG) Benchmark Scorecard
Benchmark your product against the PLG mechanics that actually drive efficient growth in 2026. 12 questions across four dimensions: time-to-value, expansion mechanics, viral and network effects, and self-serve revenue. Score yourself against the OpenView and a16z PLG Index. Diagnostic outputs from Sales-Led to PLG Best-in-Class with specific improvement priorities.
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Free Viral Coefficient (K-Factor) Calculator
Calculate your product's viral K-factor and project organic-only user growth from a seed cohort. Models invitation funnel (sent → opened → clicked → activated), cycle time per generation, and compounding through 12 generations. Identifies whether you have a true viral loop (K > 1) or a leaky bucket. Includes lever analysis: which input would most efficiently push K above 1.
Growth Hacking Resources
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Best Collaboration Platforms of 2026: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Notion, and the Modern Work Stack
Ranked list of the top collaboration platforms — Slack, Teams, Notion, Linear, Zoom. The platforms powering modern hybrid work and team coordination.
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Best Customer Success Platforms of 2026: Gainsight, ChurnZero, Totango, and the CS Tech Stack
Ranked list of the top customer success platforms — tools for health scoring, churn prediction, expansion, and account management that retain and grow B2B SaaS revenue.
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Best Product-Led Growth Companies: 10 PLG Operators That Set the Standard
Top product-led growth (PLG) companies in 2026 — operators whose freemium-to-enterprise motion, viral product mechanics, and self-serve onboarding set the industry standard.
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Top Creator Economy Platforms of 2026: Substack, Patreon, YouTube, and the Creator Monetization Stack
Ranked list of the top creator economy platforms — Substack, Patreon, YouTube, OnlyFans, Beehiiv. The platforms enabling creator-direct monetization.
Growth Hacking Case Studies
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Canva
How Canva built a $40B design platform by democratizing design for non-designers. Melanie Perkins' founding journey, PLG strategy, and AI integration.
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Figma
How Figma built browser-based collaborative design into the default tool for design teams, secured a $20B Adobe acquisition, and became more valuable as an independent company after the deal collapsed.
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Linear
How Linear displaced Jira and other project-management tools by combining obsessive product craft, speed-of-execution, and a deliberate design-led brand to win software engineering teams.
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Notion
How Notion built one of the most successful product-led growth stories of the 2010s — combining template-driven viral mechanics, freemium-into-enterprise expansion, and obsessive product craft.
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Resources
Ideas, checklists, glossaries, and statistics
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Playbooks
Strategic playbooks for partnerships and BD
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Case Studies
Strategic breakdowns of leading companies and projects
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Lists
Curated rankings of the best companies, tools, and programs
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Profiles
Founders, investors, and operators shaping tech
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Strategies
Pattern analysis of how top companies built their advantage
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Postmortems
Why FTX, WeWork, Theranos and other major failures collapsed
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Roles
Business development and partnership roles defined
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Salaries
Compensation data by role and city
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Side-by-side comparisons of roles and strategies
By David Shadrake · Strategic Business Development & Tech Partnerships