Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Social cues to the rescue. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. A minority might believe that the whole social media thing is going to die.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 blogtronix – An enterprise social platform that includes blogs, wikis, documents and social media so that users in large and small organizations can collaborate and build communities inside and outside their company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries. In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups. In LA we lack the same scale of technology ecosystem as they have in the Bay Area.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

These form the precepts behind the futuristic sounding principles of “ The Mesh “, which is characterized by: 1) Having a core offering that can be shared within a community, market or value chain. With a background in entrepreneurship and investment in social ventures, Gansky obviously knows her stuff. 2) Use trials.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Pivot to the One Thing at the intersection of those 3 truths.?? Fab Culture.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. and internet communities to promote its technology.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

. “Israel’s durability during and after the financial crisis, proves that Stanley Fischer deserves the honor he receives among the elite of the international financial community,&# – Euromoney magazine. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Representation is a large part of any social network, but some more than others.". Aggregate and curate to reinforce. Finally, many people end up leveraging a tool to serve as the central place they aggregate and curate certain content to reinforce their brand. Turns out, they do online, as well. Four key strategies.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Footbo - a football-centric social network that enables fans to follow leagues & competitions from around the world while easily connecting with fans from all locations. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

Meeting in person is no longer the only way an angel investor can get looped in a network of other investors. By participating in social networks, angels are making themselves more findable, and entrepreneurs can do a better job targeting exactly who the most likely investors are. 3) A Network of Company Assistance.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It depends on where you live, but every community has a Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce organizations typically do networking events. Some of them have young professional networking events. At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network. Clarifying is one step.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

This is a strategy that has been successfully used by social networks, ecommerce stores and even enterprise businesses to drive customer engagement and build revenues. Leaderboards are a popular form of gamification in community-based businesses. What exactly is gamification? Leaderboards.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

Grounded in hardcore data-driven research (you can check out the MIT team’s academic articles here ), it distils social, analytical, computational and managerial sciences into a discipline which helps us understand how collective intelligence and social influence works. Marrying Big Data With Social Networks.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started. project.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Thursday, January 17, 2008.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

People want and expect to join and participate in community in addition to completing transactions. Visualize industry related data – most popular X on Twitter, aggregate industry related tweets. Message of the day promote across staff social networks. Market segment hosted communities. Facebook lead capture.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 10, 2004

As I have said a number of times, I am a big believer that companies should start looking at how to use new technology and standards like blogs, wikis, and RSS/Atom from a product perspective and not solely for news publishing and aggregation. What do I mean by that?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, members of the DOD will not respond to ”cold calls” and those in the Intel community won’t even tell you their names. Automated data aggregation (i.e. And given most of them had no exposure to the DOD or Intel Community it’s not a surprise. In addition, most of the sponsors are working on classified problems.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, members of the DOD will not respond to ”cold calls” and those in the Intel community won’t even tell you their names. Automated data aggregation (i.e. And given most of them had no exposure to the DOD or Intel Community it’s not a surprise. In addition, most of the sponsors are working on classified problems.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But using hashtags effectively, especially for business marketing, means doing more than just plugging them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. Niche hashtags for existing communities, fields and industries are great choices. What is a hashtag and how do you use it?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 10, 2004

As I have said a number of times, I am a big believer that companies should start looking at how to use new technology and standards like blogs, wikis, and RSS/Atom from a product perspective and not solely for news publishing and aggregation. What do I mean by that?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the services I believe marketers should provide their followers and community members these days is that of filtering and aggregating good, relevant content. How and Why I Use Buffer This content from: Duct Tape Marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Niche markets – Some marketplaces build communities interested in very specific types of items. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online. Fulfillment – Marketplaces can become a fulfillment center.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Listening platforms capture in near real time relevant discrete post level items in social networks, social media, and mixed media (e.g. These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated. Fine Grained Marketing and Promotion.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Network fragmentation. Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Social curation of products on Pinterest.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If your product or service is reviewed on sites that have an aggregate score (Amazon, Yelp, Facebook, Google), display the rating on your site. Don’t forget to look for videos and other rich media posted by customers that you can repost to your site or feed. WOMM STRATEGY 3: Display product ratings. It’s a win-win.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 4, 2011

tags: blog social. great example of community source content for a book project. Social Media Connects Us to Friends – Not Prospects – Kern Lewis – Marketing Nuts and Bolts – Forbes. tags: blog social. Customer Experience Matters. yep… it’s about the customer, not the “enterprise&#.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. I see businesses being more strategic about the type of content they publish online, to build the communities they want. There was no real community. Chris Guillebeau. Chris Brogan.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Instead, it tends to emphasize vibrant communities of scholarship and learning, stimulating atmospheres of intellectual inquiry, enduring commitments to academic excellence. There, you can arrange your badges into themed groups and choose which ones to share on social networks and other sites.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. It takes a lot of work to build a community. Company : Wesabe. We like data.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Clicking on any one of the channels above, will lead you to a lovely drilldown report that shows detailed performance for that channel… The above report proves my statement, all data in aggregate is crap ! Simply because the reports in the Social folders are processed a bit differently, using a different channel/source mapping strategy.

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