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Have you thought about finding an intern who hustles and just put them to work reading growth hacking blogs and implementing/testing ideas.

Search for: Dan Martell Patrick Vlaskovits Sean Ellis Noah Kagan Hiten Shah Dannielle Morrill

etc.

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Even though interns may not cost any money, they are not free. Whenever you have interns (marketing or otherwise), be prepared to invest a bunch of time teaching them, making mistakes which may cost you time and or money, and be prepare for them leaving after several months.

Your app seems viral by nature, without the need to spend money on user acquisition. You might have better chances adding an experienced marketing advisor to your team for nominal equity than hiring someone for only equity.

You have good points. Them leaving after lot of training/mistakes is not something we can afford at this stage.

We have already worked with a few interns. The time and money we invested into this effort didn't really pay off and we ended up letting them go.

Hmm...no we have not, but I'm not sure that's the approach we're looking to take either. I will check out those searches though - thanks

I posted this above, but to reiterate: Be very careful about hiring interns. You cannot just hire someone to be free labor. According to Federal regulations, you must receive "no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded".

Trust me, I'd love to hire some marketing interns to free work for my startup's launch, but that's just not legal.

Got it - I'll check out the laws before we do think of hiring interns.

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