Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Creating a viral video can be a big deal for a brand. There’s just one problem with going viral: No one really knows how it happens. Even content creators who are known for publishing regular viral content only experience success a fraction of the time. Follow These 4 Steps to Make Going Viral More Likely. The top five?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility). If a bank’s annual retreat video goes viral — the one where its CEO reveals a lack of karaoke talent — then the video is popular even if the CEO is not.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2007, I met Rob May for the first time in person at the first SXSW I ever went to. I can''t guarantee you''ll sell something, win VC dollars, go viral, etc. In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter. So while DALL-E may seem like a novelty or niche product for technophiles at this stage in the game, ignoring it now is like ignoring blogging in the late 1990s, or social media circa 2004, or mobile in 2007.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 12, 2010

At the start of 2007, about a year later after adding the newsletter to my blog, I had 3,000 email subscribers. I went from 3,000 people at the start of 2007, to about 5,000 in the next few months leading up to the release of the Blueprint , to 15,000 subscribers after the launch of Blog Mastermind and the Blueprint.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In addition, the social sharing buttons at the top create a built-in growth engine / viral loop. They decided to change the email in three ways… They changed the font and layout so the email was no longer stuck in 2007. Reminder / Notification Emails. You’re likely very familiar with reminder / notification emails.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I find that the users of Delicious are some of the old Internet souls that know quality from viral and I can always count on a romp through my favorite tags to produce ideas for my own content production. Content discovery. I’ve also long used Delicious as a content inspiration source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Billboards and outdoor advertising have been around for almost 150 years now and in many ways are precursors to, and cousins of, today’s online campaigns, both paid and viral. The viral affect of the ads, decades before the internet, made this one of the most effective (and cost-effective) advertising campaigns ever.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

He proposed funding the construction of 20 more prototypes in different models, hiring an engineer to think about manufacturing, putting the videos online to get it viral, and then seeing what happened. Under questioning it came out that the company had gone under in 2007 and he had lost over a million dollars in the company.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

It was a social network for the blogger community (later acquired by Yahoo in 2007), which when installed, showed where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go. Virality was getting featured on Digg and bookmarking was Del.icio.us.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 12, 2010

I was looking through my YouTube favorites last night and came across this video we did with Nalts in 2007 that I completely forgot about. Tags: Viral drunk inteview nalts. Since I didn’t even have this blog back then, I thought I’d share it with you guys. It cracks me up every time.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

During the first 10 months of 2007, shares of 15 online-software companies tracked by Thomas Weisel Partners increased in value 61%. In order to get there, they cant operate like an Internet start-up, letting their technology spread virally as end users hear about it.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

I last wrote about the iPhone in November 2007 when my wife and her friends started getting iPhones.    You can either go on-deck through the carrier channel and their walled gardens or off-deck through the web where you will need to have an incredibly viral product or spend lots of money on marketing. 

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2010

I knew how important multimedia is way back during my first launch in 2007 , which is why I spent about four hours talking out an audio version of my Blog Profits Blueprint that I gave away for free along with the PDF text version. Ask yourself how many people you see actually do this when they release free reports?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). Many term sheets ensued. So by this point I hadn’t had an exit.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

During the first 10 months of 2007, shares of 15 online-software companies tracked by Thomas Weisel Partners increased in value 61%. In order to get there, they can’t operate like an Internet start-up, letting their technology spread virally as end users hear about it.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

I last wrote about the iPhone in November 2007 when my wife and her friends started getting iPhones.    You can either go on-deck through the carrier channel and their walled gardens or off-deck through the web where you will need to have an incredibly viral product or spend lots of money on marketing. 

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. You're choosing only one metric because you want to optimize it. That metric is tied to a KPI. If it's the number of people buying, the metric is conversion rate.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

2007, “It’s one of the ironies of modern life that cooking shows and books are so hugely popular when much of the time we eat on the move or settle down in front of the TV with a microwaved frozen dinner. Monster accepts videos for recruiters, but few recruitment sites let you add video profiles. Looking At Cooking.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Salesmanship, publicity, marketing, virality, and particularly reputation, were now more important. Many might remember the 2007 Washington Post experiment with Joshua Bell, one of the most famous classical musicians in the world. I found myself in a world where terrible products were praised and phenomenal inventions overlooked.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. I do think that is a massive difference. One is, recall the iPhone platform, the Facebook platform.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

We’ve used ZenDesk since their launch in 2007 and have continued to be impressed with the product and its evolution. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Fortunately, there are a number of really good products that can help. image credit: Jason Howie.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. viral video. viral videos. Google purchased DoubleClick for $3.1 DoubleClick.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. This is a mistake.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Thursday, December 28, 2006. Being a San Francisco-Menlo Park commuter, I spend an average of 90mn per day on the road. ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Save the planet!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Friday, March 23, 2007. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. ▼ 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 02/03 - 02/10. (1). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. Save the planet!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

You know, that's why, you know, you see kind of a, a viral sensation happen and someone has a big following. You know, I wanna pick up on something you said, John, you are still getting royalty checks on a book that you wrote in 2007. Then quite often what follows after that is a book deal. They bank on, you know, that top 10.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. . ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 02/03 - 02/10. (1). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1). Happy New Year 2008! ► 07/01 - 07/08. (2).

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. . ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 02/03 - 02/10. (1). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1). Happy New Year 2008! ► 07/01 - 07/08. (2).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 5, 2007

Friday, January 05, 2007. Happy New Year 2007! ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. VC lifestyle. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. . ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 02/03 - 02/10. (1). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1). Happy New Year 2008! ► 07/01 - 07/08. (2).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. . ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 02/03 - 02/10. (1). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1). Happy New Year 2008! ► 07/01 - 07/08. (2).

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