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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you need to provide RSS? Is there a step-by-step wizard? Refer a friend? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you need to provide RSS? Is there a step-by-step wizard? Refer a friend? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Dismissable?

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Quickly Unpacking Spotify’s Acquisition Of Gimlet Media

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market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? This all represents a huge market for engagement minutes as audio as a medium, while not inherently viral, is likely more accessible to more people in terms of literacy and in many cases faster and more efficient than reading (though not in all cases). Remember Stitcher?

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! May 3, 2011 18:53:01 Reply 2 Flag this comment Daniel Licht Follow Great idea except for the fact that the startup is left without the in house talent, Kayweb angels control that talent and in a startup talent is worth more than money.

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