Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned Growing To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million

What it does

Imagine what your life would be like if your business suddenly began signing up an 100,000 new users daily without spending another penny. That's exactly what happened to Cliff Lerner when he bet his online dating start-up's fortunes on a then-unknown platform called Facebook. This is the 'Wildest Startup Story You've Never Heard Of Until Now.'

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