Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Get a domain name for your company. Then use godaddy or namecheap to register the name. RetailMeNot usually has ~ $8/year discount coupons for Godaddy You may want to register many different domains (different possible brand names, or different misspellings and variations of a brand name.). JustinMind , Balsamiq ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. This is a variation on Internet radio, named from iPods and broadcasting. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. " Examples include give-aways, contests, and celebrity stunts that grab attention. Streaming video. Podcasting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

This is a variation on Internet radio, named from iPods and broadcasting. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Sometimes called blogtalk radio, this is essentially the same as regularly broadcast radio, except it is streamed (realtime) on the Internet from websites such as AccuRadio.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? Who are the other stakeholders involved? How will you be taking this to market?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

Community involvement can be an excellent way to get the name of your business out around the area, and have that name associated immediately with something positive. In exchange, most of the organizers of these events are happy to feature the company logo and mention the name of the business in press releases.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my business name Aging Youthful when the network marketing company I am involved with came out with a product for youthful aging.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

His early experience was at LogMeIn and then he went on to help Xobni, DropBox, LookOut and EventBrite to name a few companies I’m sure you’ve heard of. We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He created his own domain and gave out email address with the name@chamillionaire.com nomenclature. It created viral buzz because other fans saw the email address and wanted to know how they got it. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses. This was in the 90′s. He was trailblazing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

The year was 2015 and my company, Shareability, had already been behind some of the biggest viral hits of the past few years. The resulting video, “Ronaldo in Disguise,” became an immediate viral sensation. Going Viral. There was a time when “viral” simply referred to, well, viruses. The shoot was on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit. Look at the rapid adoption of Groupon, LivingSocial or Instagram as proof of how rapidly businesses can grow through viral means. And buy people are doing en masse.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content. Take good care of them, and organic, viral sharing may welcome your product to the marketplace. million people in 24 hours as a result. Target influencers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Neither is it to achieve the greatest reach or “virality” in one’s digital campaign. The greatest challenge of our “social age” isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base. Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

When Jamie told us he was going to build “Doorbot” (the name prior to Ring) and he explained to us that it was a video security doorbell sold at mass-market prices to bring security to homes that have never been able to afford them?—? Viral Adoption / Group Use Cases Jamie didn’t want to stop at a single household. so he went on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

There is nothing viral! name your city]? People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Not really.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video – otherwide Web 2.0 We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Maybe some of them remember our brand name and our products (Lord knows we are pimping ourselves aggressively on those brand pages) when it is time for them to make a purchase. Virality is also really interesting (again, actual human interaction), people who "create a story from your post" (share etc). Time to dive deeper.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Multiple currencies, beyond money, are at work nowadays: reputation capital, value of time, karma and goodwill, to name a few. Growth hacking” or the mentality of “try every viral trick, every channel as quickly as possible in order to get ahead in the land grab” is a hot topic.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. They are namely: monitoring, mapping, middleware, management and measurement. The greatest challenge of the social media age isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base. These use cases straddle what Metz calls the 5 Ms in social customer insights.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. It does a lot more than that now, but that’s where the name came from. Jason: Chext?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To a 47-year-old, married, self confident guy who thinks about how to build virality into products this seemed like heresy. What I found in meeting @John is a quiet, thoughtful, introverted, charming guy who doesn’t enjoy the public taunting that he occasionally receives for having a company backed by such high profile names.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Our only viral gaming app on the list, we asked DJ Saul , the CMO of the DC-based iStrategy Labs , a DC-based digital agency that has built products like Grandstand and Social Machines for clients like The Washington Redskins and Nickelodeon , for input. 8) Angry Birds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site.

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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. The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. You have a new, big name advisor (unless it’s a big , big name this rarely works). That is objectively crazy. You’re breaking taboos.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Every time you post with your business ID, your business name (and web page link) you’re putting yourself out there in front of potential customers. Get a Twitter account in your business name. Your store name will be displayed on the products for the duration of the event and the donation is tax deductible. Email Lists.

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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. Free with in-app purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Small markets tend to change more rapidly with the economy, and may be more easily influenced by fads and competitors with recognized brand names. In the real world, marketing initiatives that go viral cost big money and effort for their innovation and execution. A focus on a specific market segment. An innovative marketing plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. Deep-dive meeting. It’s a term of respect and endearment. Growth-hacking” marketing.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. What I knew that many didn’t was that a combination of curiosity and a viral game mechanic would slowly get to a million people, at which point the network becomes valuable. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Thanks to Ryan Niddel, Ryan Niddel Strategies ! #9-

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 17, 2020

If you’re in the early stages of promoting your startup , you’ve probably thought about trying every possible marketing tactic out there: emails, blog posts, targeted ads on social media — you name it. Videos are viral in nature, and within the right marketing strategy, they can spread through the internet like wildfire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

You go to somebody's website and it says basically it's the exact same content, the exact same photos, it just has a different name of a suburb or neighborhood. And it is, but I don't know if everyone should be chasing virality. Local home service businesses should not be chasing virality. A lot of people have spammed.

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