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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5 With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content. Take good care of them, and organic, viral sharing may welcome your product to the marketplace.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020. This work is my zone of excellence.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. It was launched in 2014 for $40–50k, and Wong says that he and his co-founders paid themselves only minimal stipends in the beginning.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. As Seinfeld said , “There is no such thing as an attention span. Stay on brand.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. mahabis #slippers #packaging #shoes #footwear #design A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Jul 16, 2014 at 3:50am PDT. Image source ).

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. It was launched in 2014 for $40–50k, and Wong says that he and his co-founders paid themselves only minimal stipends in the beginning.