Growth Hacker Marketing
by Ryan Holiday · Ryan Holiday
Short polemic arguing that product-market fit, virality and retention have replaced advertising as the core marketing job. Uses Dropbox, Airbnb and Hotmail cases to show how early-stage teams acquire users without a media budget.
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