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Program Introduction
Quick welcome and introduction to the program.
The DC Growth System
Stop chasing random marketing tactics. Build a systematic growth engine using five foundational pillars and proven motions.
Guiding Principles
Growth is systems design across your entire business, not just marketing tactics or A/B testing.
The Foundational Five: Overview
The Foundational Five framework teaches you to engineer growth into your business foundation using five aligned pillars: market, product, model, brand (story), and channel.
Fit Mechanics & Pairings
Growth comes from engineering "fits" between your five foundational pillars, not optimizing parts alone. These alignments create a system that compounds when properly engineered together.
Growth Catalysts
Growth catalysts: structural advantages like network effects and scale flywheels that amplify foundation.
Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
B2C Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
Create Your Story System
Build a full Story System that unifies brand, personas, and messaging to power scalable growth.
Design your Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Design your B2C Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Identify Your Acquisition Motion
Filter Paid, Content, Virality, Sales motions by fit to find which are viable for your startup.
Identify Your Monetization Motion
Decide whether product-led, sales-led, or hybrid monetization best fits your model, customers, and strategy.
Identify Your Retention Motion
Choose a retention motionβproduct-led, sales-led, or hybridβbased on fit, ARPU, and strategy.
Defining Your Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Defining Your B2C Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Acquisition Strategy
Build your acquisition strategy by scoring channels, picking flywheels, and sequencing a testing roadmap.
Monetization & Pricing Strategy
Smart pricing avoids guessingβdefine value metrics, choose a clear structure, and adjust often.
Google Search Ads
Launch and scale Google search campaigns using conversion-first strategies.
Google Performance Max Ads
Learn how to optimize and scale your Google PMax campaign for sustainable growth and ROI.
Google Shopping Ads (mini playbook)
Learn how to set up, optimize, and scale Shopping Ads to drive profitable e-commerce growth.
Meta Ads (FB + IG)
Run profitable Meta ads using proven creative formats, targeting strategies, and optimization frameworks.
Amazon Ads
Amazon Ads guide: high-intent PPC with 10% conversion rates through auto-to-manual campaign strategy.
TikTok Ads
TikTok Ads guide: UGC-focused creative strategy for low-intent audiences with broad targeting approach.
Apple Search Ads and App Store Optimization
Capture App Store demand with laser-targeted campaigns that convert high-intent users.
Content Marketing Fundamentals
While others chase volume with low-quality AI content, youβll learn to publish less and drive more traffic, trust, and conversions.
SEO Fundamentals
The old SEO playbooks are fading. Learn how to grow search traffic in an AI-first world.
SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
B2B SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
Organic Instagram: Getting Started
Use organic content and community building on Instagram to build brand awareness, acquire leads, and drive sales.
Organic LinkedIn: Getting Started
Our members have amassed 4M+ followers using our content systems. Weβll show you how.
Product Virality
Design viral loops and referral mechanics that turn users into your best growth engine.
Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
B2B Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
Sales Strategy Fundamentals
The 80/20 sales system that gets early-stage founders from zero to first revenue fast.
Cold Email
Most cold emails get ignored. Weβll show you how to write ones your leads are excited to reply to.
Launching on Product Hunt
Product Hunt guide: validation platform requiring 400+ pre-launch audience and quality engagement strategy.
Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
B2B Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
Tap Your Network For Initial Traction
Strategic network outreach: target the right 5% with personalized messages, not mass contact blasts.
Community-Based Outreach
Build trust through social DMs: join communities, spark natural chats, and turn them into users.
The Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
The B2B Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
Email Marketing Fundamentals
Convert, engage, and retain users with emails crafted for every stage of the customer journey.
Make High-Converting Ad Creatives
Make high-performing ads that stop the scrollβeven if youβre not a designer.
Make High-Converting Landing Pages
Use our proven playbooks and templates to build landing pages that convertβfast.
Copywriting Fundamentals
Write headlines, product copy, and CTAs that convert across landing pages, ads, and onboarding.
Develop Your Value Props
Clarify your positioning and create messaging that makes people say, βFinallyβthis is what Iβve been looking for.β
Landing Page A/B Tests: Getting Started
Learn how to build, prioritize, and launch A/B tests that actually move the needle.
Competitor Research Fundamentals
Nearly every growth problem youβll face has already been solved. You just need to know where to lookβweβll show you how.
Market Research Fundamentals
Find your real customers and the job they hire you forβthen build, message, and grow with proof now.
Screen Recordings & Heatmaps
Use Hotjar recordings and heatmaps to spot friction, analyze behavior, and boost conversions.
User Surveys
Design, run, and mine user surveys for segment insights that sharpen ads and copy.
The DC Growth System
Stop chasing random marketing tactics. Build a systematic growth engine using five foundational pillars and proven motions.
Guiding Principles
Growth is systems design across your entire business, not just marketing tactics or A/B testing.
The Foundational Five: Overview
The Foundational Five framework teaches you to engineer growth into your business foundation using five aligned pillars: market, product, model, brand (story), and channel.
Fit Mechanics & Pairings
Growth comes from engineering "fits" between your five foundational pillars, not optimizing parts alone. These alignments create a system that compounds when properly engineered together.
Growth Catalysts
Growth catalysts: structural advantages like network effects and scale flywheels that amplify foundation.
Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
B2C Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
Create Your Story System
Build a full Story System that unifies brand, personas, and messaging to power scalable growth.
Design your Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Design your B2C Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Identify Your Acquisition Motion
Filter Paid, Content, Virality, Sales motions by fit to find which are viable for your startup.
Identify Your Monetization Motion
Decide whether product-led, sales-led, or hybrid monetization best fits your model, customers, and strategy.
Identify Your Retention Motion
Choose a retention motionβproduct-led, sales-led, or hybridβbased on fit, ARPU, and strategy.
Defining Your Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Defining Your B2C Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Acquisition Strategy
Build your acquisition strategy by scoring channels, picking flywheels, and sequencing a testing roadmap.
Monetization & Pricing Strategy
Smart pricing avoids guessingβdefine value metrics, choose a clear structure, and adjust often.
Google Search Ads
Launch and scale Google search campaigns using conversion-first strategies.
Google Performance Max Ads
Learn how to optimize and scale your Google PMax campaign for sustainable growth and ROI.
Google Shopping Ads (mini playbook)
Learn how to set up, optimize, and scale Shopping Ads to drive profitable e-commerce growth.
Meta Ads (FB + IG)
Run profitable Meta ads using proven creative formats, targeting strategies, and optimization frameworks.
Amazon Ads
Amazon Ads guide: high-intent PPC with 10% conversion rates through auto-to-manual campaign strategy.
TikTok Ads
TikTok Ads guide: UGC-focused creative strategy for low-intent audiences with broad targeting approach.
Apple Search Ads and App Store Optimization
Capture App Store demand with laser-targeted campaigns that convert high-intent users.
Content Marketing Fundamentals
While others chase volume with low-quality AI content, youβll learn to publish less and drive more traffic, trust, and conversions.
SEO Fundamentals
The old SEO playbooks are fading. Learn how to grow search traffic in an AI-first world.
SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
B2B SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
Organic Instagram: Getting Started
Use organic content and community building on Instagram to build brand awareness, acquire leads, and drive sales.
Organic LinkedIn: Getting Started
Our members have amassed 4M+ followers using our content systems. Weβll show you how.
Product Virality
Design viral loops and referral mechanics that turn users into your best growth engine.
Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
B2B Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
Sales Strategy Fundamentals
The 80/20 sales system that gets early-stage founders from zero to first revenue fast.
Cold Email
Most cold emails get ignored. Weβll show you how to write ones your leads are excited to reply to.
Launching on Product Hunt
Product Hunt guide: validation platform requiring 400+ pre-launch audience and quality engagement strategy.
Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
B2B Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
Tap Your Network For Initial Traction
Strategic network outreach: target the right 5% with personalized messages, not mass contact blasts.
Community-Based Outreach
Build trust through social DMs: join communities, spark natural chats, and turn them into users.
The Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
The B2B Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
Email Marketing Fundamentals
Convert, engage, and retain users with emails crafted for every stage of the customer journey.
Make High-Converting Ad Creatives
Make high-performing ads that stop the scrollβeven if youβre not a designer.
Make High-Converting Landing Pages
Use our proven playbooks and templates to build landing pages that convertβfast.
Copywriting Fundamentals
Write headlines, product copy, and CTAs that convert across landing pages, ads, and onboarding.
Develop Your Value Props
Clarify your positioning and create messaging that makes people say, βFinallyβthis is what Iβve been looking for.β
Landing Page A/B Tests: Getting Started
Learn how to build, prioritize, and launch A/B tests that actually move the needle.
Competitor Research Fundamentals
Nearly every growth problem youβll face has already been solved. You just need to know where to lookβweβll show you how.
Market Research Fundamentals
Find your real customers and the job they hire you forβthen build, message, and grow with proof now.
Screen Recordings & Heatmaps
Use Hotjar recordings and heatmaps to spot friction, analyze behavior, and boost conversions.
User Surveys
Design, run, and mine user surveys for segment insights that sharpen ads and copy.
Core Growth Path
Learn the proven growth system that drives scalable revenue, with strategies and tactics adaptable to any startup model.
B2C Tech Path
Scale your consumer tech startup with the proven growth system that drives user acquisition, retention, and revenue.
B2B Tech Path
Scale B2B growth across acquisition, conversion, retention, and monetization.
Education Path
Learn how we built one of the top education companies in startup growthβand apply our proven system to scale yours.
Mobile Apps Path
Master mobile app growth: learn the strategies that scale installs, maximize retention, and drive predictable revenue.
Services Path
Get your services businesses out of the word-of-mouth trap.
The DC Growth System
Stop chasing random marketing tactics. Build a systematic growth engine using five foundational pillars and proven motions.
Guiding Principles
Growth is systems design across your entire business, not just marketing tactics or A/B testing.
The Foundational Five: Overview
The Foundational Five framework teaches you to engineer growth into your business foundation using five aligned pillars: market, product, model, brand (story), and channel.
Fit Mechanics & Pairings
Growth comes from engineering "fits" between your five foundational pillars, not optimizing parts alone. These alignments create a system that compounds when properly engineered together.
Growth Catalysts
Growth catalysts: structural advantages like network effects and scale flywheels that amplify foundation.
Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
B2C Growth Guardrails
Set growth goals, define constraints, calculate ARPU/CAC guardrails to build a systematic growth engine.
Create Your Story System
Build a full Story System that unifies brand, personas, and messaging to power scalable growth.
Design your Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Design your B2C Growth Engine
Design a growth engine by aligning motions into flywheels that drive sustainable, compounding growth.
Identify Your Acquisition Motion
Filter Paid, Content, Virality, Sales motions by fit to find which are viable for your startup.
Identify Your Monetization Motion
Decide whether product-led, sales-led, or hybrid monetization best fits your model, customers, and strategy.
Identify Your Retention Motion
Choose a retention motionβproduct-led, sales-led, or hybridβbased on fit, ARPU, and strategy.
Defining Your Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Defining Your B2C Growth Strategy
Define your plan of attack: diagnose growth gaps, set constraints, and chart your guiding policy.
Acquisition Strategy
Build your acquisition strategy by scoring channels, picking flywheels, and sequencing a testing roadmap.
Monetization & Pricing Strategy
Smart pricing avoids guessingβdefine value metrics, choose a clear structure, and adjust often.
Google Search Ads
Launch and scale Google search campaigns using conversion-first strategies.
Google Performance Max Ads
Learn how to optimize and scale your Google PMax campaign for sustainable growth and ROI.
Google Shopping Ads (mini playbook)
Learn how to set up, optimize, and scale Shopping Ads to drive profitable e-commerce growth.
Meta Ads (FB + IG)
Run profitable Meta ads using proven creative formats, targeting strategies, and optimization frameworks.
Amazon Ads
Amazon Ads guide: high-intent PPC with 10% conversion rates through auto-to-manual campaign strategy.
TikTok Ads
TikTok Ads guide: UGC-focused creative strategy for low-intent audiences with broad targeting approach.
Apple Search Ads and App Store Optimization
Capture App Store demand with laser-targeted campaigns that convert high-intent users.
Content Marketing Fundamentals
While others chase volume with low-quality AI content, youβll learn to publish less and drive more traffic, trust, and conversions.
SEO Fundamentals
The old SEO playbooks are fading. Learn how to grow search traffic in an AI-first world.
SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
B2B SEO: Build Your Foundation
SEO foundation guide: technical setup, on-page optimization, content strategy for startup credibility.
Organic Instagram: Getting Started
Use organic content and community building on Instagram to build brand awareness, acquire leads, and drive sales.
Organic LinkedIn: Getting Started
Our members have amassed 4M+ followers using our content systems. Weβll show you how.
Product Virality
Design viral loops and referral mechanics that turn users into your best growth engine.
Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
B2B Influencer Marketing
Tap into trust and reach by partnering with creatorsβeven before you have an audience of your own.
Sales Strategy Fundamentals
The 80/20 sales system that gets early-stage founders from zero to first revenue fast.
Cold Email
Most cold emails get ignored. Weβll show you how to write ones your leads are excited to reply to.
Launching on Product Hunt
Product Hunt guide: validation platform requiring 400+ pre-launch audience and quality engagement strategy.
Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
B2B Cold Outreach (Partnerships & PR)
The complete guide to building partnerships, securing sponsorships, and creating distribution opportunities through relationship-first outreach
Tap Your Network For Initial Traction
Strategic network outreach: target the right 5% with personalized messages, not mass contact blasts.
Community-Based Outreach
Build trust through social DMs: join communities, spark natural chats, and turn them into users.
The Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
The B2B Complete Onboarding System: From Signup to Activation
Design onboarding experiences that activate users quickly and increase long-term retention.
Email Marketing Fundamentals
Convert, engage, and retain users with emails crafted for every stage of the customer journey.
Make High-Converting Ad Creatives
Make high-performing ads that stop the scrollβeven if youβre not a designer.
Make High-Converting Landing Pages
Use our proven playbooks and templates to build landing pages that convertβfast.
Copywriting Fundamentals
Write headlines, product copy, and CTAs that convert across landing pages, ads, and onboarding.
Develop Your Value Props
Clarify your positioning and create messaging that makes people say, βFinallyβthis is what Iβve been looking for.β
Landing Page A/B Tests: Getting Started
Learn how to build, prioritize, and launch A/B tests that actually move the needle.
Competitor Research Fundamentals
Nearly every growth problem youβll face has already been solved. You just need to know where to lookβweβll show you how.
Market Research Fundamentals
Find your real customers and the job they hire you forβthen build, message, and grow with proof now.
Screen Recordings & Heatmaps
Use Hotjar recordings and heatmaps to spot friction, analyze behavior, and boost conversions.
User Surveys
Design, run, and mine user surveys for segment insights that sharpen ads and copy.
Core Growth Path
Learn the proven growth system that drives scalable revenue, with strategies and tactics adaptable to any startup model.
B2C Tech Path
Scale your consumer tech startup with the proven growth system that drives user acquisition, retention, and revenue.
B2B Tech Path
Scale B2B growth across acquisition, conversion, retention, and monetization.
Education Path
Learn how we built one of the top education companies in startup growthβand apply our proven system to scale yours.
Mobile Apps Path
Master mobile app growth: learn the strategies that scale installs, maximize retention, and drive predictable revenue.
Services Path
Get your services businesses out of the word-of-mouth trap.