Opinion

May 4, 2022

5 tips for early-stage startup growth without hiring a growth team

How to grow a startup is a dilemma all early-stage founders face. But with a million other things to think about, it can be tempting to think hiring a growth team will “crack” it for you


Napala Pratini

5 min read

Napala Pratini

When we launched our business in 2019, growth lay solely at the founding team’s door and remained that way for the first couple of years. And despite now having a wonderful head of growth, the number one thing we’ve learned is that growth is always an everyone thing, not something that can be passed off to a single person or team.

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