crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. “Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” – [link].

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth hacking and growth teams are so commonplace today, at least inside Silicon Valley, that it’s easy to forget that “growth” (as we know it now) is a relatively new phenomenon. Virality and marketplaces: generally low, but…. Generally speaking, marketplaces aren’t blessed with intrinsic virality.

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Software Review South Africa Hockey Stick Viral 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Channel pivot.

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Silicon Valley Architecture Startup Channel 273

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. “I was fortunate that the first product I built proved to be successful,” Gadea concedes.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This reality has fostered a popular new startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Channel pivot.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Channel pivot.

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Silicon Valley Architecture Startup Channel 187

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. “I was fortunate that the first product I built proved to be successful,” Gadea concedes.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” Online technology company that distributes video. I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). Most will fail.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. He discusses what it was like pioneering virality- and social media-based products before that was even a thing, and how the climate and technology of Silicon Valley back then was radically different than today.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 120

Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. This will create an opening for serious and useful apps, now squeezed out of the ecosystem by the higher virality of the silly apps. You’re far more familiar with the serious users.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. This will create an opening for serious and useful apps, now squeezed out of the ecosystem by the higher virality of the silly apps. You’re far more familiar with the serious users.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I like to understand for these models how many sales people are quota carrying, what is the distribution of quota attainment, and what is the profile of an ideal sales person Inbound model (e.g., They will assume you’ll meet Silicon Valley-based VCs (even if it is not the case!),

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San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. He discusses what it was like pioneering virality- and social media-based products before that was even a thing, and how the climate and technology of Silicon Valley back then was radically different than today.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. He discusses what it was like pioneering virality- and social media-based products before that was even a thing, and how the climate and technology of Silicon Valley back then was radically different than today.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place. Silicon Valley. 2M in 18 months. AR/VR, Cyber, Robotics.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 433

The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Giant Media is a video platform that distributes long-form content for brands. He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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Southern California Los Angeles Media Founder 138

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

If we create this network of collaborators that solves this problem, that's essentially a distributed biotech Silicon Valley and who knows what innovation that we can't foresee yet would come from that. I think one really incredible experience has been how willing people are to help. Eric Ries : So why isn't it happening?

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv. Anon User The question presupposes that technical development expertise is sufficient for bringing an idea to life, but I think that for an idea to go viral also requires communications, marketing, and related "social" capabilities.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think there's been a lot of curiosity in the wider world about Silicon Valley and the kind of pivot to working on COVID and this question on are private investors doing their part or not. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. What's going on?

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Curation Government Los Angeles Partner 60

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Aesthetics play a major part in that decision." What web design trends have surfaced and dominated in 2009?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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