Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Cold calling.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

For example, your company is shifting aggressively into leveraging Machine-Learning in your marketing strategies and hence have made a shift to Smart Display Campaigns a huge priority. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. I love governments!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their marketing campaign has been quite strong and, while many features are the same, it offers a competitor, which makes both platforms better because of how hard they must work to stay on top. campaigns with my CallScaler solution. Thanks to Shaun Connell, Rental Property Calculator ! Thanks to Curran Van Waarde, CallScaler ! #13-

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Mashable made the public announcement, and Giving Tuesday quickly went viral. If Giving Tuesday is a new concept for your organization, how can you get your board excited about starting a Giving Tuesday campaign this year? Outline a Giving Tuesday campaign for your board. Provide training for a successful campaign.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. Step-by-step guides to using popular websites, reviews of mobile applications, breaking news about whats happening on the web, the best viral videos, tips for marketing your businesses online and much much more!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

In today’s digital world, negative feedback can quickly go viral, leading to potential disaster for even the biggest brands. In 2017, four years after the tragic Boston marathon bombing, Adidas sent an email campaign with the subject line, “well done for surviving the Boston marathon.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Cold calling.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. Remdesivir came from one of these campaigns. When the main proteinase gets inhibited, the viral replication becomes difficult, and the virus would therefore die. I am Eric Ries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

And, Alistair carefully breaks down cohort analysis, a method of grouping users according to a shared criterion (all the users who joined in a given month, for instance, or during a particular campaign), and then demonstrates how you can test with those cohorts to yield actionable information. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It has paved numerous pathways for merchandisers to base their marketing campaigns on. You too can optimize your campaigns on these forums by spending just a few of your bucks to build and make an audience. Playing campaigns on social media has become smarter and gets smarter every year. Offer Free Services to New Customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Elizabeth Warren made a very interesting comment at a recent campaign stop. The video and quotes from it are “going viral” — I’ve seen at least 4 re-postings on Facebook, and numerous tweets. Warren is seeking to be the new Senator in the State of Massachusetts.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites. Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices. Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In a separate study done by viral content agency Fractl , they showed participants 30 of the top 100 images on Reddit, asking them to look at the image, then to the corresponding emotion on Robert Plutchik’s Wheel Of Emotion. Overall, the campaign would involve a lot of text. image sources. image source. image source.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Cybercrime encompasses phishing attacks , stealing credentials, monetary fraud, ransomware campaigns, email spam, malware, and more. Tech researchers at Proofpoint have also discovered many hacking campaigns using coronavirus-related terms where malware such as Emotet, NanoCore, and Azorult.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat. Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments. In contrast, Bill and Melinda Gates acted decisively and quickly.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. We hope to see activists and governments use the tools of blitzscaling to change the world for the better. The third is high gross margins.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

The web has seen other videos go viral, but never with the speed accomplished by three young filmmakers who traveled to Africa in 2003 to help stop the rebel Joseph Kony’s ferocious campaign and his strategy of using children as soldiers and sex slaves. million followers and then posted multiple updates in the following days.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Sounds too good to be true? They all simply ignore it. Why Do We Let This Happen?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

We have enough problems without opening the door for YASPFC (Yet Another Software Patent FUD Campaign). The way I see it, you have two options: (1) keep digging, this goes viral, and your company is a joke; (2) apologize and/or shut up, and your company keeps bumbling along as it has been. March 27, 2011 at 1:07 pm. Serdar IRMAK.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We’ll start seeing AI generated content go viral and create huge following. From technologies selling to armies and governments (drone defence, AI surveillance etc) to consumer use cases for homes and businesses. Integration of virtual characters into ad campaigns, games, and entertainment franchises.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

These accounts were longtime pushers of the “vaccines cause autism” trope, but as it became clear that was a failing strategy, they started to reach out to Tea Party-dominated Twitter hashtags, to cloak their true objections under more relatable concerns about “parental choice” and “government overreach.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Government software AI software to automate government administrative tasks Target large-scale operations like form processing, application reviews Build solutions for citizen-facing services (DMV, permits, licenses) 2. Stripe anticipates these trends to create significant business opportunities for new and existing companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Which means that for me to get the policy changed here, I actually had to become an advocate and a campaigner. That's just not enough to move the dial on policy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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