Growth hacking has been one of the trendier titles over the past few years. There are some good ones out there, but can a bootstrapped startup or small business really afford to pay the best? Well, we just came across an interesting new company that wants to help startup and SMBs grow, without breaking the bank. TractionVC offers up a unique subscription based service. We had a chance to ask the team a few questions about their new company:
TractionVC
What is TractionVC?
TractionVC helps product-focused-entrepreneurs grow their business. We help product people form a habit of working on growth. Every monday, we’ll email you 3 PDFs, each containing a growth tactic in a step-by-step framework that you can apply to your business immediately.
This way you can continuously try out new growth channels to discover which ones help your business grow. We’ll show you exactly how to do so. There is no silver bullet to grow your company. The trick however, is to continuously have little experiments to find which growth channels work for you. You can either hire a growth hacker for $6000/mo that will help you do this, or use TractionVC for just a fraction of the cost (and headaches).
Why did you build TractionVC?
People need to work on their dreams. The only way to work on your dreams is if you can fund them. The only way to fund them is to build a successful company that can help you keep working on those dreams… and the only way to build a successful company is by making it grow. TractionVC helps you grow your startup, so more people can keep working on their dreams and make the world a better place.
How is your product different from what is currently available?
It’s the simplest way to get in the mindset of working on growth, that will help you along the way until you stumble upon something that makes your startup takeoff.
Tell us your founding story. Was there an “ah ha” moment?
As a product-guy, I fell in the trap like most entrepreneurs of working too much on the product and not so much on growth. When building a new feature, designing a newer version etc. you get instant satisfaction. It’s addictive. However, to build a successful startup you need growth. So I built TractionVC for myself and others who want to form a habit of working on growth, without doing less of what they love to do: building their product(s). TractionVC does the work for you of finding and organising ways to grow your business. All you have to do is subscribe, wait for the tactics and spend (little) time applying the step-by-step challenges that are explained in simple english.
Tell us about your founding team and their backgrounds.
TractionVC was founded by Karim Amrani.
Karim is s product guy, just like you, who used to fall in the trap of working too much on the product, rather than growth. I’m not a know-it-all online marketeer that magically will make you millions overnight. What I’ll be doing with Traction.VC is provide a systematic way that has helped me grow a couple of ventures after many years of trial and error.I’ll be helping product people form a habit of working on growth.
I figured the best way to help grow my ventures was by weekly focusing on just a couple of tactics. See which work, do more of those. See which don’t work, eliminate and learn. That’s it. No silver bullet, just hard and disciplined work.
This approach has helped me grow an online game for kids (www.tafelsoefenen.nu) from 100 users to 70.000 in one year, grow www.madrassa.co from 0 users to 1800 in 48 hours.(without spending any money on marketing) Weekly focusing on growth has also helped me land more (high profit) gigs as a freelancer.
