SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. If you have NO network of promotion for your story? But it wasn’t to be.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. power user curve showing a smile — with a big concentration of engaged users (you grow out from this strong core) viral factor >0.5

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. I can measure the "invisible virality" / "spread" by this big huge non-commenting, non-tweeting audience. Invisible Virality. Or for that matter how many tools. People matter. You matter. Cool right?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

How to kickstart and scale a consumer business ( source ) Leverage Your Network and Reach Out to Targeted Strangers: Start with your closest connections: This is the easiest and fastest way to get started. Leverage your personal and professional networks, email your contacts, post on social media, and ask for feedback.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". This is the viral step: Having trialed the tool, the stranger might use it herself, then more people find out about it, and so forth. We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. million sunglasses units.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Today there are huge communities online, like Facebook and Twitter, which grew in popularity for socializing with friends. Streaming video.

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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 is our viral spread coefficient? These are exciting and fun experiences for everyone involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Prioritize social networks. Choose at least a network or two that match your business’ current scale in addition to starting aspirational presences on obvious services like Facebook and Twitter. Startup Example: Cloudera. Strategy Adopted: Blogger Outreach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

07:28] How do you create effective networks? [18:16] And then if you're part of a B nine group and they have a website or wherever, all these networking things, and that's another reason why I say this. And it is, but I don't know if everyone should be chasing virality. Entertainment though sometimes goes viral.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared.

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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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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Fourth: measurement.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

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. Both are networks. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Marketing is top priority.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2014

Your need to network doesn’t end with college. Why Networking Is So Important. Networking is essentially the oil in the gears of the market, and through being able to do it effectively, you have a much higher chance of getting to the places you want to go in your career. In fact, that’s when it truly begins. 1: LinkedIn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. John Jantsch (10:27): Yeah, that's, I've been teaching that exact tactic, I call it peer-to-peer networking. Mm-hmm and Viral doesn't have to mean you get 3 million views on something. For to what end?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free. Social networks. Social networking” is really the new term for dating, with mega-sites like Facebook , and the hyperlocal site Foursquare.

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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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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Making the Most of Your Online Networks is Wise. A wise piece of advice is to make the very most of your online networks. Try and tap into your networks and encourage them to share your fundraising webpage with their followers on social media channels. Making Your Fundraising Campaign Go Viral Online.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? However, podcasts are not songs, of course, and therefore not subject ot the same licensing, restrictions, or scarcity. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

It helps to advertise your new presence with a grand opening, viral video, and traditional advertising to highlight entry into the arena. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers. These days, you can’t start and run a business alone.

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2021

Before an unsavory post goes viral on the internet, we encourage you to take a look at our step-by-step plan for creating a nonprofit social media policy. Your board members should be aware that there’s no way to prevent a bad or questionable social media post from going viral even if the content was only up for a short time.

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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. Many tech companies earn success by going viral. With luck, we might even make some money doing it. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone. San Francisco is already well publicized.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) It doesn’t happen by accident. Not every new game site is a Club Penguin or Minecraft.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 27, 2015

We love these platforms for many reasons, but the primary one is the power of their network effects and how they create a high degree of defensibility for startups. What are network effects? Network effects” is a frequently used term and it is sometimes confused with having a large customer base. Direct Network Effects.

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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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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc. Selling your product through online ads is an awesome channel if done right, which entails taking the time to research which networks and kinds of ads are most successful for your company.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. If you are selling to consumers, especially younger ones, your business won’t survive without an effective social media presence. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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