Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Kawaii Illustration Calling all woodland creatures: You’re wanted on the Internet. 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! What will you find here?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Kawaii Illustration Calling all woodland creatures: You’re wanted on the Internet. 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! What will you find here?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. million in venture financing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Getting funded is hardly the end-all.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

In its Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index , Internet Retailer ranks mobile commerce websites based on load time, success rate and other factors. Interestingly, the #1 mobile commerce site on Internet Retailer ‘s index, Walgreens, is nearly identical in appearance to its native iPhone app. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. 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! What will you find here?

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Fortunately, most buildings these days are set up for Internet, phones and other business infrastructure, so you don’t have to worry about installing those modern amenities. Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. This is possibly the most insightful startup article Ive read in a while.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports startups tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.9 What will you find here?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. Object Communications (now often called “the Internet of Things”). Predictive Data. Augmented Data. Asymmetric. Location Aware.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

HubSpot – HubSpot is an Internet marketing suite that integrates with your website to track your online marketing efforts. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. RB-Apps – RB-Apps provides customized, DIY business mini-applications based on the RB-Apps Platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. And it carries no inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. I suspect Ryan is keener on building a consumer Internet play, but my business experience says this would do better as an add-on residing on the sites of other retailers. SOCO Games.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Robert and I talked about how it's working, the science of pseudoviruses and reporter genes, how his father's example in science and business set him on his path, and how to bridge the gap between science and finance. I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Use the Internet, print, direct mail and media commercial marketing methods together to make sure your company comes to mind when consumers think about buying products in your field. The fastest way for a young business to find success these days is to have a social media post go viral. Know Your Finances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’ve heard that it’s good to get financing even when times are good because one day you’ll need it, so you consider the offer. In 2005, Claus Moseholm co-founded GoViral, a Danish company which specializes in harnessing the internet to promote advertisers’ videos and make them go viral. Your business may become unrecognizable.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

And, if a founder is seeking investor financing , the probability of investor funding is significantly lower and investors become much more pitch-picky. Establishing a brand for organic inbound interest from either the internet or on-going referrals can take a lot of time. Become a viral success.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2017

With the internet integrally involved in nearly every aspects of our lives, it only follows that we are seeing a burgeoning online medical service industry. Kaigo Health basically takes care of all aspects of a doctor’s consultation, including finances.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). This is about how behemoths adapt to Coase's Theorem now that the Internet is making that a practical consideration. ( But the enterprise software bootstrapping past was based on upfront license fees where the customer took the financing risk.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It launched late in 2006 as a web app to help people manage their personal finances. He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. Did you Know Wesabe?

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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. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. Reid Hoffman.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. 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.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2012

It is now easier than ever for someone with an idea and some ambition to create a business, with financial support easily available on the Internet. Youtube now allows users to solicit donations on the platform and link back to campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, helping to make these fundraising campaigns viral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

Regardless of your niche, it can be quite a daunting task to narrow down creative content that has not already flooded the internet in a variety of different forms. Investigate alternate avenues – such as the use of longtail keywords – to generate new topic ideas that are just waiting to go viral. Look around at trending hashtags.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Cheaper and faster is also something that we can expect from the internet, which is set the cover even more obscure corners of the globe. You just need a laptop, the right software and an internet connection. Then there's air travel which is expected to get significantly faster and significantly cheaper. Digital what?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

I’m able to create shipping labels, answer customer emails, coordinate product development from any computer with an internet connection (I’ve actually had to do this many times from various internet cafes while on travel). The viral nature of it has been incredibly fruitful in building awareness and oftentimes conversion as well.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So it’s not necessarily true, but if you are like another popular group in Chexts is younger people who don’t have a lot of money to manage, but they don’t need financing and all of that stuff. My first instinct as an internet user is to close this browser window instantly because this just screams bad.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

M&A and Finance. Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Finance/Accounting. Assn/Non-Profit.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well.

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