Growthflow - Digest #14

The “crazy busy” existence so many of us complain about is almost entirely self-imposed.

Is distraction a curse or a blessing? Not giving full attention to what we should be doing makes us miss deadlines, fail classes, and crash into other drivers. Distraction certainly has a price.

If your morning or nightly routine sounds about as far removed from your work life as you can get, think again. Biohacks, from blue-light blocking glasses to morning sessions in a sauna, add up — and can help you navigate not just your job, but a long, productive career. Box’s VP Engineering Tomas Barreto shares how.

How top chatting apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, and Line use onboarding to create strong network effects and build user engagement.

A complete, actionable list of growth hacking tactics you can use to supercharge the growth of your business and build your user base. FAST.

Blogs can help turn readers into customers, but it isn’t always easy. Find out how to make your blog posts convert more sales with Sujan Patel.

A common mistake that founders make when raising a venture round is to anchor high and ask for too much money, at too high a valuation, with the hope the VC will bid them down. This is a common failure mode that prevents people from raising money successfully when they otherwise could.

Has your prospect stopped responding to your emails, but you don’t want to send a generic follow up? Give this “buried email” template a try.

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe

Ambitious founders will need to invest some other way to differentiate themselves from the crowd — and investors will be looking for other ways to decide whether to fund a startup.