Hear from speakers with proven track records in building businesses using various growth techniques.
 

4 Talks :: Q&A :: Passionate Starters :: Awesome After-party

This event is for you if you're an impassioned founder, CEO, marketer, developer, or tech enthusiast. Particularly for those who are part of startups and small businesses, but beneficial to any consumer-based company seeking growth.
 

Though growing a business is a universal desire, implementing growth is unique to the product, market, and company. The buzz about virality and "growth hacking" has created the false perception that there is such a thing as simple, overnight success. But, as anyone building a company knows, inducing growth is not easy. It involves virtually every part of a company. Growth is the confluence of hiring, organization building, analytics, data science, design, engineering, internet marketing, relationship building, and a "test everything" mentality. When a great strategy is implemented successfully, it often equates to impressive growth–in revenue, user base, and company buzz. 

DATE
Thursday, April 18, 2013
 

SCHEDULE
Program: 1pm - 5:30pm (CST)

After-party: 6pm - 8:30pm (CST)

SPONSORED BY

David Petrillo	Neil Patel	Emerson Spartz
Co-founder, Coffee Joulies	Co-founder, KISSmetrics	Founder, SpartzMedia
@CoffeeJoulies	@NeilPatel	@EmersonSpartz

Aaron Ginn	Sean Johnson
Head of Growth, StumbleUpon @aginnt	Partner, Digital Intent    Organizer, Chicago Growth Hacker Meetup
	@Intentionally

TALKS (More TBA)  

David Petrillo is the inventor and co-founder of Coffee Joulies, a coffee temperature regulator that they raised $300k on Kickstarter (3rd largest at it's date), won $100k at the 2011 Shopify Build-a-Business competition and elicited a $150k deal on ABC's Shark Tank. Dave will explain the lessons he's learned from these experiences and best practices to grow a start-up without using traditional angel or VC methods. 

Neil Patel has consistently increased traffic and, most importantly, revenue for 20 major brands and hundreds of other businesses. He's also co-founded KISSmetrics, a customer analytics platform and blogs at Quick Sprout. He's known for teaching businesses how to double and triple their traffic in 30 days. Neil will give a talk on "400,000 visits/mo and Growing: How to Create a Company Blog that Doesn't Suck."

Emerson Spartz is the leading expert on internet virality. He founded the #1 Harry Potter site, MuggleNet, at age 12 and is now the CEO and Founder of Spartz Media (GivesMeHope, OMG Facts, etc). Emerson will talk about the science of going viral, as well as, share 19 tips, tricks, and hacks to make your product more viral. 

Aaron Ginn has lead growth from early stage startups to large corporations.  Aaron got his start in growth in consumer healthcare with Simplee where he led the consumer user acquisition strategy. Recently, he was the first growth hacker to be involved in US Presidential politics with the growth team at Mitt Romney for America. Now, Aaron is the Head of Growth at StumbleUpon. He is also an organizer for the Growthathan, and author of the series "Defining a Growth Hacker" on TechCrunch. You can read his thoughts on growth and life on his blog aginnt.com.

Sean Johnson is a partner at Digital Intent and helps companies build and grow new digital businesses. He is an adjunct professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management teaching digital marketing and runs the Chicago Growth Hacker Meetup. He also blogs at Sean-Johnson.com. Sean will assist emcee and manage Q&A sessions for the speakers. 

PROGRAM LOCATION
Gensler
(11 East Madison St., Suite 300, Chicago, IL / Above City Target)

AFTER-PARTY LOCATION
Join us for drinks, food, music, and great conversation!
Sponsored by Digital Intent
(118 N. Peoria, Chicago IL)

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