Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free.

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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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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It is a social network (like Facebook). On one of the most visited page on the internet. The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

If knowledge is power then every entrepreneurial startup should succeed because the information needed to do so is almost in plain sight, out there on the Internet. However, he was not the first to build a social network. In fact, surprisingly, there were hundreds of social networks before Facebook.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2022

The tool you’re using can differentiate between a good video and a bad one. Also remember that social media videos are not the same format as those seen on specialist video-sharing sites. For example, if you post long films on social networking sites, they may not get the attention they deserve. Use a Good Tool.

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Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

To begin with, we are going to differentiate five major areas of marketing that encompass all the others. You know one only from seeing it on the Internet and the other has been recommended to you by several friends. Social networks, in this case, are used, above all, to disseminate and publicize these Sponsorships.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. I agree completely. And I would add: even if they copy your idea exactly, so what? link] Dejan Strbac. link] Marco.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 14, 2018

In a nutshell, a UVP is a clear statement explaining how you will solve your customer’s problem, the benefits included, and what differentiates your offer from the pack. In addition to good old-fashioned books, the internet provides expert resources (and many inexpert resources) on nearly any topic. Be consistent.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

From social networks like Facebook (clone: vKontakte ) to microblogging services like Tumblr (clone: Dian Dian ) to daily deal sites like Groupon (clone: Snapdeal ), to gifting apps like Wrapp (clone: DropGifts ) and online retail stores like Amazon (clone: Lazada ), the examples aren’t hard to find. The clones.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Available as a username on various websites and social networks (eg Facebook, Twitter, Google/Gmail, LinkedIn). Below are some examples of types of names that have been used to build major Internet brands. Does not violate an existing trademark (a trademark search using the TESS system on USPTO.gov is a first step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This also requires a base critical mass, and real work to differentiate and convert users to paying customers. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Price based on product costs plus margin.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2013

Other technologies showcased during the announcement include: MIMAS : An on-device advanced mobile image recognition and augmented reality technology platform that does not require an Internet connection. It also picks up disparate forms of information from online media including blogs, social networks, restaurant web sites and more.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And it turns out Frisbie was a pie company in Connecticut, and what the kids did before Netflix and internet and iPhones, they would take empty pie tins and throw them around the quad. Stickybranding.com is my website, and I’m on all the social networks @stickybranding, and I’d love to connect with everyone.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2012

In this climate of unlimited choices, your brand has to be cohesive, memorable and differentiated to captivate consumers and eventually capture mind share. 4. An Optimized Website: Anybody can create a website — the Internet is full of sites where you can do it for free.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Everyone wanted to work in finance. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 18, 2011

In “The Social Network&# , the movie based on Facebook’s meteoric rise to prominence, my favorite line is when the young college students sit around a Harvard dorm talking about how fast their idea took off. Understand that this differentiation should confer an advantage from the perspective of the BUYER.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 20, 2010

This is what I got out of the videos, which makes them must-view content if you have any interest in marketing via social media channels – The key differentiator: Social Media that brings you friends vs. Social Media that makes you money. My Ah-Ha Moments.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The advent of the Internet completely changed the way people hitherto shopped. You can station your Ecwid outlet on any automated social networking site starting from Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn, Google + which will help you to find new customers for your product(s) or service(s). Amazon Inc.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

There are five strategies, or patterns, that set apart leading internet startups – or the billion-dollar club companies – from all the rest. The “extremization” of the message or user experience has become sin qua non for achieving differentiation in the cacophony of publicity messages. This post originally appeared on Geektime.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

We are in the midst of great change and many businesses of all shapes and sizes are figuring out how they can implement the right social customer service strategy to meet the ever changing expectations of this increasingly powerful generation. Old school customer service rules haven’t changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. 50x more Internet users (2.4 ” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. Where are we today?

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

On the Internet, small is the new big. Path has emerged as one of the first mobile-only social networks and in January it reached over 2 million members. I’m a huge believer that the killer differentiator for technology is the user experience. ” And boy are they hot right now. They’re more exclusive.

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Social Network Differentiation Web Networking 54

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. And it’s something I think you ought to consider when building your Internet businesses. Most of the Internet’s Greatest Successes Have Been Deflationary. Here’s what I mean. It’s remarkable.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. Thanks to Paige Arnof-Fenn, Mavens & Moguls !

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2018

By this, I mean, search the internet for companies already doing what you want to do. It’s also a great way to see how other people are trying to solve the problem you’re working on, the problems and successes they’ve had, and figure out how you want to differentiate. Do Your Homework. First, do your homework. Get Started.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. All of which leads us to two very interesting rake examples that are front and center in today’s Internet – Facebook and Apple.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. We shut down Kik Chat, and the next day we launched Kik Messenger,” Livingston says.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. You make me think of something I've been pondering for a while but haven't been able to articulate: the realignment of company and "customer" in the age of pervasive social networks and innovation.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. That’s easy, that’s super easy.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Either they can't acquire new clients or collect payment from the existing customers or they fail to develop their skills and differentiate themselves from the competition. A free choice of a working spot (a freelancer can live and work wherever desired just so there was a proper Internet connection). Travel the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking. Great post Eric.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though social media and internet rule, customers make purchase decisions using a combination of old media, new media, and old-fashioned conversations with friends and family. In the marketing world, Dhar says, “meaningless attributes often lead to meaningful differentiation. “. People gather information from mixed sources.

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