Growth Strategy Courses by Leaders from Silicon Valley and the European Tech Scene

Our program is not your standard digital marketing course. We provide state-of-the-art knowledge for ambitious online professionals engaged in growth problems:

• Successful participants usually work in the digital or software industry (B2B and B2C), specifically in areas like online marketing, growth marketing, product marketing, app marketing, product management/owners, software engineering, data analytics, start-up founders, account management, acquisition marketing, online sales, or senior professionals with growth orientation.
• At least 1-2 years of experience in relevant areas (no entry level positions).
• You show strong initiative and participate spiritedly: You will need 2-3 hours per week to actively attend our weekly workshops and about 1 hour prepping every lesson with our online learning material.
  

You should not apply in the following situations:

• Entry level - our concepts require foundational knowledge and experience in the digital space.
• Start-up without clear product-market fit - our growth framework helps you to grow your product systematically but is not designed to help with product-market fit.
• Industry with long sales cycles (e.g. enterprise business) - Your business is based on long sales cycles or deals mainly with hardware sales. Our content is not designed to tackle these kinds of problems.

According to our excellent Net Promoter Scores our participants are highly satisfied with their experience at Growth Academy.​

Most companies have training budgets. We want to make sure you have everything you need when asking your company to sponsor your participation. Download our reimbursement guide to convince your company.

Reimbursement policies vary between companies but most of our alums were able to expense the program fees. We have some tips from our alums below on how they approached reimbursement. Tip for German participants: German employees are entitled to five to ten days of paid educational leave in most federal states, except Bavaria and Saxony (see requirements by state). Participation fees are deductible and will be reimbursed with your tax return if they are considered work-related.

PS: From our experience reimbursement depends on your company policy so you can’t count on it per se. It should be perceived as bonus that your company cares about employee development by reimbursing job-relevant training fees. More businesses realize how impactful growth strategy courses are and reimbursements should be more common in the future. It usually helps if you tell your manager about the high-profile speakers and companies.

I got a part of the participation fees refunded. I think the "pitch" should necessarily be tailored to the respective manager. My boss is the CEO so I could directly explain how important growth strategy skills are for the success of our company. If my boss was middle management, I would probably elaborate how the content is highly relevant to my dayjob.
-SVEN B., Growth Academy Fall 2021 cohort

My company supports continuing education programs and has an internal website where I can request a refund for up to EUR 3000. The most important thing was to talk to my manager first and get his OK. In addition, mentioning the high-profile speakers of the Growth Academy has helped.
-JESSICA S., Growth Academy Spring 2021 cohort

Unfortunately, I could not get the course reimbursed. I paid out of pocket and it was 100% worth the money.
-J.P., Growth Academy Spring 2021 cohort

You won’t learn 'Quick Fixes' or 'Growth Hacks' at the Growth Academy. Quite the opposite, we will teach you the growth foundations and frameworks to uplevel your career and drive the outcomes at your company:

1. Growth mechanics applicable in almost every B2B and B2C online company
2. Strategic frameworks that you can adapt to solve your own business challenges
3. Access to our global alum network with experts from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, TikTok, Spotify, Skyscanner, Ebay, MobileDe, CapitalG, ImmoScout24,  Zalando, Nuri, EyeEm, Vimcar, and more.
4. Best practices, tutorials and inspiration based on the latest Silicon Valley approaches and trends
5. Direct application of growth know-how at your company and / or products

Yes, your English level should be at least intermediate. After we held a few cohorts in German we realized that most participants were fluent in English. This allows us to be more inclusive and we don’t have to turn down participants who weren’t proficient in German.​

Although our content is extensive it doesn’t apply to all individual problems. To make sure you get the most, we select our participants based on the following criteria: 1) Your profile matches our content 2) Parallels with other participants in the cohort 3) You have at least 1-2 years of experience.

In the past we invited about 10-20% of all applicants. That being said, we don’t aim for specific acceptance rates. Moreover, we want to deliver high quality content and a great learning experience. Our utmost priority is to select small cohorts with ambitious, high-caliber participants who foster learning during the course and in our alum network.

We teach versatile growth frameworks that have worked for most successful technology companies. Please don’t expect  step-by-step tutorials that instruct how optimal landing pages or navigation should look like. There are tons of blogs out there that provide this for free.

We present examples of our frameworks from the B2B and B2C space. That being said, we don’t have specific content focussed on B2B Sales or B2B Acquisition but our featured guests will touch parts of these topics.

No, our format doesn’t lend itself well to recording or streaming. However, since our program is remote you can join from everywhere in the world as long as you speak English.

You will be able to access the program content for the duration of your subscription.