Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. What does it cost to acquire a new customer? What is our viral spread coefficient?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

I threw out the world class tool, purchased ClickTracks for a fraction of the cost and put money into Analysts and boom! Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. Invisible Virality. Well not crap… lots of data that no one cared about or actioned. You matter.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

High User Acquisition Costs: The landscape for acquiring new users has become increasingly complex and expensive. The flattening of the mobile adoption curve and Apple’s deprecation of its Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) have elevated customer acquisition costs significantly. AI is changing the game in consumer tech.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

The crucial ones allow you to synchronize the wallet app with the blockchain networks to facilitate the transaction and make the process easier. There are increasing efforts in the industry to create MVPs to validate your app, make it go viral, and collect customer feedback with minimal investments.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc. Direct sales take a lot of their time, which will cost your budding business. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

This trend is particularly true in markets that are highly susceptible to network effects, such as online auctions and social networks. Even beyond auctions and social networks, the web tends to prefer the category leader. This is true in most SaaS categories, including enterprise applications.

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IP Technical Review B2C Social Network 163

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It’s about building relationships and networking, not selling, although that does come as a result. Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Never Stop Growing Your Network. Network Your Networks.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Widespread global availability of free or low-cost web access, easy-to-use social tools, and algorithms by companies like Klout and PeerIndex have also resulted in an “influence revolution” According to Schaefer, the rules of online influence are affected by several factors: 1. Providing compelling content – Content is king.

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Technical Review Singapore Algorithm Social Media 160

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. 15mm in Series A.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. But with rising cost of living, it’s not really the best place to start a brand-new business. But with rising cost of living, it’s not really the best place to start a brand-new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene. All the rest.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. We then spoke about startups. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Similarly, mentioning viral marketing without specifics won’t assure fundability. Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines. The days are gone when an inventor can get credibility by saying “if we build it, they will come.” Leader pitches the plan, not the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. To compete, startups must find ways to provide customers an easier, faster, more pervasive connection to digital networks, via mobile as well as the Internet.

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Networking Customer Entrepreneur Social Network 234

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. Resources on virality/referral: Referral Marketing Master Course.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. Try to buy banners through ad networks or directly from blog owners. USD per visitor, which is about 10% of the cost of most AdWords and Facebook Ads. Those are not the apps that get featured. Do they want to have it right away?

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PR Development Team Review Viral Mobile 157

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. 8) Fellowup , a personal virtual assistant to manage your unmanageably large network. Ranging from a professionally produced cartoon (shouldn’t cost more than $5,000 to make) to a straight up product review or high end commercial, with real actors.

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Video Media Viral Startup 90

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. I suspect we’ll get rid of the freemium model at some point soon as there’s no real benefit. Youtube ads. $1 1 freemium.

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Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s gonna cost you real money. the likelihood of an increased salary for the new employee, and the costs of benefits and fringes associated with the new employee. the likelihood of an increased salary for the new employee, and the costs of benefits and fringes associated with the new employee. Photo: hmcadams.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining system efficiency, ensure that our organization’s comp. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.

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Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2014

Viral Video Marketing. In our example, we take a look at the 2011 start-up Dollar Shave Club and their viral video “Our Blades Are F ing Great”. It cost roughly $4,500 to make and it was shot in a day at their actual factory warehouse. Let’s look at 7 ways entrepreneurs can use video to grow their new business.

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Video Widget Software Review Entrepreneur 78

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores. At Uber, the system has “perfect” information in an industry where just two years ago there was a complete lack of visibility (on both sides of the network) that led to enormous waste of resources. Network Effects. High Fragmentation.

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Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. As with any resource or tool, you need to optimize your social media costs against a targeted return. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Social Media Media Cost Startup 238

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. But if you are an introvert, all this public speaking and networking may terrify you.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. I have a couple of points and resources to add. And Good luck! But don't take my word for it.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94