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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". This is the viral step: Having trialed the tool, the stranger might use it herself, then more people find out about it, and so forth. Advertising ??

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing. This is a marketing program on the Internet that you make so popular it spreads like a virus, like "word of mouth." Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Streaming video. Pay per click (PPC).

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Viral marketing. This is a marketing program on the Internet that you make so popular it spreads like a virus, like "word of mouth. Pay per click (PPC). Crowdsourcing.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.”

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

In addition to that, RIM has had several Developer Day programs in various countries, to reach out directly to developers. The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB.

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