Archive - Early Stage Growth

The Mid-Year 2025 Trend Report

Cinema, phone theft, Waitrose, exits, typos, and am I missing something?

15 hrs ago •

June 2025

5 Meta ads lies too many startups still believe

TL;DR Meta Ads has gone through two revolutions over the last five years: one with iOS14.5 and the other with AI.

Jun 24 •

VISIONS Summit NYC 2025

Reflections from the Summit and my trip to NYC last week.

Jun 17 •

Become Ballpoint's 2025 Growth Graduate

How to stand out from the other 400 applicants.

Jun 13 •

Forget CPA. CM3 is your north star

A guide to understanding the one metric that matters.

Jun 11 •

May 2025

April 2025

Test, don't debate

Lean into the likely outcome.

Apr 8 •

How to run growth meetings

10 Lessons from running 874 growth weeklies in 10 years

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Your high repeat rate is bad

If you have high repeat revenue as a % it's probably a bad thing

Mar 18 •

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