Deep bow of appreciation to Alexey Komissarouk who led Friday’s Shizen Capital workshop on growth engineering for startups. Alexey drew on his numerous successes in global tech companies to offer several interesting insights, such as:

• how performance marketing can be a trap nowadays
• why not to hire a growth hacker at an early stage
• how to generate a virtuous growth loop for your startup
• why it makes sense to turn on pricing from the beginning, and why to charge more than you think.

Special thanks to Mai Iida for her heroic efforts in coordinating the Shizen Capital workshop series.