Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

There are other use cases, too, such as app developers seeking to maximize the value of users for a viral game with a lifespan of days or weeks. Others, like Amplitude , Kissmetrics , and Heap , also gather and aggregate user and product data. Real-time data can validate near-constant changes to keep users engaged.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

When you compare the value per customer with Dan Zarrella’s aggregate Click Through Data, you see a very revealing story. Viral/ Emotional State. But here’s where data gets facinating. As click through rates decrease, the value per visitor increases. Why is that? This content deals with the extremes of the human condition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. 90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation, the most efficient content.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Viral Content Bee , my own platform, allows users to upload (non-promotional) URLs for others to share on a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter. Plenty of tools (free and paid) can help you surface popular tweets. But there are other options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Simple Sales Tracking – An online sales tracking app that offers free and paid plans.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

If it is something that would excite your followers, then the information can go viral within a very short time span. You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. Does this mean that there is no room for press releases?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Both in terms of product, potential for exit and viral growth&# and aggregated the community answers. When it comes to caliber and depth Quora , the fast-growing Q&A site started by a former Facebook Co-founder, delivers. I asked a simple question: “ What are the top startups in Israel 2010?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

I read some great stuff today on topics like why aren’t VCs lean and scrappy , and why Pinterest took so long to go viral , but the pick of the bunch by far were some of the answers to What are some decisions taken by the “Growth team” at Facebook that helped Facebook reach 500 million users? But maybe I should.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010. All rights reserved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation, the most efficient content.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not. Here is an example.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Seeing an improvement in your aggregate NPS is nice, but the real value comes in the feedback from follow up questions. The range of NPS is from -100 (all detractors) to +100 (all promoters. Combine it With User Research.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

After going viral with one of my personals posts, a growing community of Web designers pointed fingers at my site because I was using an aggressive pop-up to grab emails. 1 mom that still is trying to understand what is a “news aggregator”. Javier Sanz is a marketer at Woorank. 11 minutes server downtime. 21,062 unique visitors.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

MultiMi aggregates messages from email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and file storage services. Perhaps AVG’s 110 million users worldwide will give the product the boost it needs to go viral. In may of 2010, AVG made a strategic investment in Zbang and took 20% of equity.

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Social Media Israel Social Network Aggregator 84

VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

This would require expanding eligibility for intermediary lenders and raising the aggregate loan limit from $6 million to at least $50 million for top performers as well as expand program eligibility (see next point).

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Raise your hand if you've heard this: "How can we make our video viral?" And you know the moment those words are uttered you are dealing with a video/effort that is most definitely never going to become "viral."

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. They were linking the app to the viral hashtag #throwbackthursday, which was a natural fit for the brand. The key is to listen to things people are already saying, and (assuming it’s positive) turn it into a PR opportunity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Bookmarking is a pretty basic skill these days as you must be able to find and aggregate large amounts of information of risk drowning in the virtual sea of stuff related to your chosen field. I use it for research and I use it to publish filtered content to a number of pages. Basic bookmarking. Content discovery.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Social Media Monitoring evolved out of the explosion of non-traditional media channels developed in the last decade combined with the increased velocity of information flow as a consequence of viral information sharing. Paid media is advertising while Earned is how brands affect their public equity through the independent news cycle (e.g.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In other words, how do you sell into one user and create viral loops (sharing dashboards, etc) and expand the active user base for the product. The challenge sometimes is that many enterprise tech companies are designed to work in the background, invisibly to automate tasks or aggregate data to reduce noise.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In other words, how do you sell into one user and create viral loops (sharing dashboards, etc) and expand the active user base for the product. The challenge sometimes is that many enterprise tech companies are designed to work in the background, invisibly to automate tasks or aggregate data to reduce noise.

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Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

As the members of Atomic Tom can attest, today’s quirky moments can become tomorrow’s viral sensations. Most labels have an agreement with a licensing aggregator, such as The Orchard , which is attractive to new bands in the short term because it makes their music available for sale on iTunes and similar services.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

I have tested a lot of tools that do a great job of measuring aggregate data and spitting out a recap, but NUVI has a unique way of score influencers, color coding sentiment, and finding trends in real-time. Click on the “trending now” tab and you can also see which articles are going viral across the web.

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Conversion Rates, Landing Page Optimizations, Funnel Optimizations, Viral Loops, Quick questions and insights are they typical examples of usecases of exploration. If you sell not to people but to companies you want to aggregate your users into those company buckets. eg “What feature is most used?”. About Data integrity.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Virality is also really interesting (again, actual human interaction), people who "create a story from your post" (share etc). I will personally hate you.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

For example, some of my skills include “Entrepreneurship,” “Project Management,” and “Viral Marketing.” Another key step will involve aggregating this data. Creating a shared standard for attaching machine-readable information to certifications is an important first step for getting employer buy-in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2015

While anyone can pay to commission an infographic, there are certain factors you need to consider if you want your infographic to become a viral success! However, to get your infographic to go viral you’re probably going to have to do a lot of hustling. Choosing the right topic. Content creation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

These are the days of the meticulously crafted Likes and Shares and the cautionary tales of intimate affairs gone viral and private pictures haunting teenage girls. This is the time of the carefully thought out posts, the manicured pictures, and the well-formulated responses. If a Dog is Man’s Friend Then….

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their growth came from users, and they had true virality. Just remember that true virality is really rare. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. More users brings in more users. For example, take Facebook, the very company that popularized the concept of growth teams. What do we do instead?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter is information discovery.

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