I noticed something weird, something unnatural and alarming on my twitter profile:

Do you see what I see? No?! Let me help you out.

There you go. I'm talking about startups a lot. At least I tweet about them a hell of a lot. Almost all the time.  Now what I'm going to do about this is I'll start the Startup Frenzy series in which I summarise my favourite articles about startups I read. I'm going to do this bi-weekly but no money back guarantee, okay?

As for the first batch:

• $745 revenue in 14 hours of work in a startup by @chrisbiallas
• When Our Blog Became a Business: How We Made $2,000 From One Blog Post by @lawdonnie
• Should you startup more than once? I’ve got $58,332 as evidence by @nathanbarry
• Idea to $5,000/mo in Recurring Revenue in 5 Months by @Shpigford
• SaaS: 4 Mistakes We’ve Made During Our Beta And How To Avoid Them  by @frontapp

Hope to see you next week as well ;)

Cheers,
Viktor

Recently I got interested in how companies get to grow the number of their users, thus started to dig through the web to find articles on the topic. I quickly realised that there is tons of relevant information out there on growth hacking but it's very challenging to filter out the most outstanding and rewarding ones.

The articles I find most appealing are usually stuffed with practical advice on how to get users, covering a wide range of growth hacking methods, from the very basics of growth hacking - SEO optimisation - to the advanced techniques, even showing off some tricks people would refer to as unethical - you remember the AirBnb vs. Craigslist story, right? 

So here is the list of my favourite practical growth hacking articles:

1. Insightful and applicable advice with wide range of options by @yongfook
2. 7 ways of Dropbox's growth hacks by @kissmetrics
3. 500 startups' resident growth hacker gives you 3 examples of a hack ending great by  @mike_greenfield
4. Witches and a handful of real-life experiments with real $ and clear ROI values in them by @seysconstantijn
5. Case study of launching Updatey with solid advice on where to start when launching your own product by @bendell
6. Extremely extensive and thorough series with practical advice on growth hacking by @quicksprout

And finally one really interesting article on how to validate a business idea without building a product by @adii.

What's your favourite growth hacking article around the web?

* Plus one if you want to be a growth hacking magician! by @YoavVilner

I recently had a conversation with a friend about work and the discussion got to the point where one of us had the question:

Why are we doing what we are doing?

For the appreciation and acknowledgement.