If the "normal coder" on your startup isn't already a "growth hacker" you're doing something wrong. Same goes for the rest of the team.

Specialization and division of labor are valuable practices, to an extent.

Problem: the term itself is already not specialized. While there's no doubt a few people in the Valley actually know what it's about - for a startup, anybody knowing how to do one or two of the things below can call himself a "growth hacker":

- UX - A/B Tests - BD - PR - "Virality" - Facebook APIs ...

This is gonna be just like the SEO people of the past, but 10x worse.

They seemed to have misplaced the "burning/ripping from others" section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

In the US (where the RIAA operates), the levy only applies to CD-Rs that are labeled as being for "Music." Standard CD-Rs and DVD+/-Rs, and so forth aren't covered.

But there's also less of a need for a big exit.

Don't underestimate being the dominant startup accelerator. While probably well deserved, it's also kind of a "self-fulfilling prophecy".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your previous karma and/or average counts more nowadays e.g. a comment on the bestcomment list might not be the top comment on the story page.