Growth is examined as a set of measurable mechanisms rather than a stage of company life. Coverage includes acquisition channels and their economics, retention and churn curves, payback periods on paid spend, referral loops, and the saturation point where a reliable channel quietly stops paying for itself.
Product-market fit shows in behavior, not feelings: unprompted return usage, organic word of mouth, and retention curves that flatten — seven signs you can instrument.
Lena Fischer · April 14, 2026
Most churn is decided in the first 90 days — onboarding gaps, wrong buyers, and missing value moments — and reducing it beats acquisition on every metric that matters.
Lena Fischer · March 22, 2026
Cold email works when the list is narrow, the message is about the recipient's specific situation, and every element — sender, length, ask — is built for a busy skeptic's phone screen.
Owen Blackwood · February 27, 2026
Referral programs work when the product is worth recommending and the ask arrives at the moment of success — rewards matter less than timing, and double-sided beats one-sided.
Lena Fischer · February 4, 2026
Five metrics run an early-stage company — growth rate, net revenue retention, CAC, LTV, and burn multiple — and a dashboard with twenty metrics is a dashboard nobody reads.
Owen Blackwood · January 13, 2026