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Life & fun · May 24, 2018

Explosive Growth

The guide to bootstrapping a rocketship 🚀

Explosive Growth launched on May 24, 2018 with 105 votes, #390 of 2,985 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Cliff Lerner's online dating startup, Snap Interactive, was running out of money when he bet the company's fortunes on a then unknown platform called Facebook. The app achieved explosive growth and soon after the stock price skyrocketed 2,000 percent, setting off an extraordinary chain of events filled with sudden success and painful lessons.

Amazon.com: Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing to 100 Million Users and Losing $78 Million: Ultimate Startup Playbook in Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Online Marketing, Leadership & PR (Audible Audio Edition): Cliff Lerner, Daniel Greenberg, Clifford Ventures Corp: Books

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