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Lenny's Podcast · September 12, 2024 · 70m
The fundamentals of growth | Brian Balfour
Brian Balfour (Reforge CEO, former HubSpot VP Growth) on the four fits of product-market-channel-model fit. Why most startups fail not because the product is bad but because the growth model doesn't match the product, market, or channel.
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Canon
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Balfour: most growth problems are fit problems, not execution problems. You cannot change the market or the channel's economics. You can change your product and model. The stoic growth strategist focuses on the adjustable fits.
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Balfour: HubSpot got lucky that Google's algorithm rewarded content marketing in 2010-2015. But the return on that luck came from HubSpot's massive investment in content infrastructure, SEO expertise, and the inbound marketing framework.
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