Growth Lab 09

Growth strategy. Monetization. Commercial full potential. Solved alongside your team.

Growth Lab 09 helps ambitious start-ups, entrepreneurs and investors solve their business strategy and monetization challenges — with deep expertise and pragmatism, working in sprints alongside your team from day one.

What we do

Growth Strategy

  • Growth strategy plan
  • Market segmentation
  • New market entry
  • Revenue growth assessment (commercial due diligence)

Value and Pricing Strategy

  • Value-based offer configuration
  • Advanced pricing models
  • Discount optimization
  • Innovation pricing

Advanced Analytics

  • Quantitative and qualitative customer research
  • Advanced customer segmentation
  • Predictive models for acquisition and retention

Commercial Excellence

  • Sales channel strategy
  • Sales model design
  • Sales productivity boost
  • Incentive models

Examples of our work

Packaging and pricing redesign for a real estate portal

The challenge

Enable multi-year accelerated revenue growth with smart packaging and pricing strategies, to better address customer needs and align monetization with perceived value.

The solution

Full redesign of an overly complex offer and pricing strategy to align with the needs and willingness to pay of different client segments. Worked closely with Growth, Product and Sales teams — from challenging the status quo and setting the ambition, through customer discovery and validation, to detailed design, price setting and customer-level migration planning.

The outcome

Initial customer tests showed high acceptance of the new offering and substantial ARPU gains.

Reader revenue strategy for a leading online news service

The challenge

Develop sustainable, scalable reader revenues to diversify revenue streams and secure long-term economic viability.

The solution

In-depth diagnosis with detailed benchmarks, transactional data analysis and large-scale quantitative audience research covering reader needs, content preferences, engagement and willingness to pay. Assessment of paywall strategies, sizing of the reader revenue opportunity, and quantification of paywall-related risk to ad revenues. High-level design of an MVP subscription offering and acquisition strategy, developed with the CEO and newsroom leaders.

The outcome

Investors backed the reader revenue strategy; currently under deployment.

Short-term monetization headroom for a job board

The challenge

Identify short-term monetization opportunities to boost revenues in the absence of major product improvement.

The solution

Quick-win opportunity hunt for tactical price adjustments across all customer segments and product families, based on observable price elasticities, cross-platform benchmarks and sales rep sentiment. Built a quantified action plan with Growth and Sales combining rate card increases, discount reductions, resized credit packages and new bundles.

The outcome

€2M sustainable revenue growth opportunity, from mostly under-the-radar tactical measures.

What clients say

One learning from this project is that on future investments, we should bring you in much earlier. You helped our team unlock significant value creation opportunities with pricing.
Head of Strategy, PE-owned marketplace
We knew we had an opportunity to monetize better — that's why we hired you. But we never expected the impacts to our bottom line to be so dramatic.
CEO, PE portco
Deep knowledge, outstanding support.
Founder, Marketplace

What's different

We enable your teams

Your team does the work with us, not after us. We take on the heavy analytical lifting, but make sure your team understands every step of it. The strategies, models and solutions we create survive the engagement because the team builds them with us.

Senior experts, deep in the detail

We combine the seniority to engage your team at every level with the technical depth and attention to detail that produce real outcomes.

We stay through implementation

Project resources scale to what each phase actually needs — a fully dedicated team for the heavy lifting, light-touch coaching as your team takes over.

Who you work with

Hans Munz

Founder and principal

Hans Munz

A recognized expert in growth and monetization strategy, with more than 20 years as a management consultant. Ten years at pricing specialists Simon-Kucher, where he was a partner and led the Technology, Media and Telecom practice for Iberia. Before that, senior director at commercial excellence boutique Europraxis and a consultant at Bain & Company, after starting his career designing control software for power plants at ABB.

Hans has led more than 100 projects across four continents, including revenue growth and monetization strategy for 20+ classifieds and transactional marketplaces and multiple B2C and B2B subscription businesses. He is a senior advisor to Simon-Kucher, serves on the advisory board of a leading classifieds marketplace, and teaches pricing strategy in graduate and executive programs at Esade Business School.

MSc in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL, MBA from IESE/Columbia Business School. Fluent in English, German, French and Spanish.

Relevant industry experience

The focus of our current work is in Tech (marketplaces, online classifieds, B2B software, consumer apps, tech hardware), Media (commercial broadcasters, video streamers, digital news, publishing, ad tech) and Education (higher education providers, vocational training, textbook publishing).

Over more than 20 years of growth, monetization and commercial excellence consulting we have worked well beyond tech and media — in telco, consumer goods, durable goods, automotive, agribusiness and industrial services.

We continue to serve clients in these more mature industries as our strategy development toolkit and in particular many of our approaches and methods for pricing optimization have proven to be highly effective here.

When to reach out

Most engagements start with a trigger — a new product to price, new growth targets that require a rethink of your go-to-market, a competitor move that needs answering, a lack of consensus in your team about the next price moves, a nagging doubt about your pricing strategy.

Sounds familiar? The first step is to talk it through.

Email Hans
Growth Lab 09Gran de Gràcia 266 at 1
08012 Barcelonahans@growthlab09.com
+34 619 42 44 62
linkedin.com/in/hans-munz-441435