Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

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. Please read my post on this, “ Why You Should Stop Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Given that base plus the inherent viral component to these social apps, it seems natural that the first overnight success of a Kinect-powered app will be a social one. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

Search 211

Search Boston Seed Stage Seattle 211

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In addition to that, RIM has had several Developer Day programs in various countries, to reach out directly to developers. The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2011

They typically manage processes that touch every employee every day: payroll, health benefits, incentive programs, performance reviews, pension and retirement plans, and vacation policies. You can create and send invoices directly from the program, and track aging and payment of these as well. Sweetness indeed. Photo: J.A.G.A.

Small Business 118

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Do you have a customer referral program? Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Social relationships are built around zealots and their disciples who ultimately engage a wider congregation and perpetrate the culture shift.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. Wildfire Interactive. Investors: Google Ventures. Other News: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Social relationships are built around zealots and their disciples who ultimately engage a wider congregation and perpetrate the culture shift.

Social Media 201

Social Media Affiliate Viral Technical Review 201

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Safari.

Programming 73

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 73

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

According to a report released today (embedded below) by Altimeter Group's Jeremiah Owyang, "only 23 percent of social strategists have a formalized program with long-term direction". In justifying and expanding programs for longer-term planning and budgeting, 48% of social strategists place measurement as a primary objective in 2011.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Well-kept GitHub profiles exemplify one’s breadth and expertise in various programming languages and their contributions to open source and side projects, exemplify programmers’ eagerness to create. It’s a Long-Term Investment - It’s highly unlikely your first, second, third, or 50th post will “go viral.”

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is pretty much how all the value ­added resellers (VAR) programs work. You can get in touch with an ereseller with just a cold email, and you can be your first resellers’ program manager. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Product virality is an art.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. But here’s the thing: creating a referral program isn’t hard. But here’s the thing: creating a referral program isn’t hard. Referral marketing looks like the elixir of marketing.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

They called that program Eatsy. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Our portflio company Etsy has a person who is focused on the office, company culture, and making the work space as comfortable as possible. took a photo and posted it to my tumblog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

For example, you could set aside some funds to experiment with offline and online promotions, online small business listing sites , referral programs, deal-of-the-day sites like Groupon, print ads in local papers or mailers, online ads , hyper-local advertising on Facebook, participation on Twitter , or adwords on Google.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2012

Dunkle and friend Mitch Gordon, 33, started their online travel community business in 2009 after they met teaching English in Taiwan, and realized there was a clear gap in quality online information about various overseas programs (teach, study, volunteer, etc.). We started work on the project in Taiwan before relocating to Berkeley, Calif.,

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program , which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™ processor-based devices. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Learn more here. Please share your observations in the comments.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program , which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™ processor-based devices. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Learn more here. Please share your observations in the comments.

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Web Design Social Media PHP 111

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. A very interesting strategy. Im defiantly going to give it a shot on my next project!

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Safari.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Will the average person care which language you wrote your program in? 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. That is objectively crazy. You’re breaking taboos. As with No.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. If, for every customer you acquire, you can acquire 1-10 more with viral loops , you can spend a lot more on acquiring that first customer, right? If you sell shoes, would virality work for you?

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

A really nice travel rewards program is vital for startups on limited budgets. We have CapitalOne Visa card which comes with a straightforward and fairly generous reward program, no annual fee, and a simple to use website with online redemption functionality. At least for those of us who use the program with any regularity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. Unlike 1st generation discs, their discs have an elastomeric core that provides a more natural range of motion, and have already received CE mark in Europe and are in clinical trials in the U.S.

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Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Additionally, content is a tool that can be used to make your company go viral. This could be anything from making an appointment to joining a referral program. Share Buttons are a wonderful web design and development tool that can be used to make your medical brand go viral. The call to action should be concise and clever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Given that base plus the inherent viral component to these social apps, it seems natural that the first overnight success of a Kinect-powered app will be a social one. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

Search 100

Search Boston Seed Stage Seattle 100

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The formula for going viral (or Twitter failure) - [link]. 50 Must Have Design programs for Increased Productivity - [link]. Technology Redefines Marketing - [link]. Darwinism at play: Not All CMOs Going Digital - [link]. Pepsi, Microsoft Say No One Social Agency Meets All Needs - [link]. 60 PSD Icon and Button Templates - [link].

Social Media 87

Social Media Las Vegas Small Business Design 87

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). It isn’t new stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. We're leading the charge in enabling viral distribution for iPhone apps.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

W3Schools.com : Dictionary for Web Programers What? A complete resource of several web programming technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL… Why? Although I will still stick with my Photoshop, I love this tool and often use it. The site loads up quicker than my Photoshop on my computer.

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