SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

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. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

In today’s digital era, video is the most preferred form of content in the world. Over 500 minutes’ worth of videos is uploaded per minute on YouTube alone. If you want to elevate the status of your business, you can’t afford to miss out on harnessing the power of videos. Top Reasons To Focus On Video Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

You keep wondering if businesses still want creative, animated videos. Animated videos are not going anywhere. Film productions, businesses that were aiming to spend big bucks on live advertising are now turning to various animated video styles to get the job done. They also have immense viral potential on social media.

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Video Advertising Technical Review Viral 229

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.” Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Streaming video. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements.

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Internet SEM Wiki Viral 239

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.” Streaming video. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Most videos are now in-stream (no download first), and new ones can be interactive, with clickable hot spots.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? Video and Audio Are you hosting your own video, or can we use a third-party host like YouTube or Vimeo? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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Developer Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 520

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That first burst of customers via word-of-mouth or a viral video won’t sustain your growth. With information overload due to the Internet, you need to find your customers, rather than assume they will find you. Start with a range of platforms, including social media, advertising, and a great website.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor 432

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

As of January 2012 consumers were watching 4 BILLION video views per day on YouTube. A decade ago the idea of even watching video online would have been laughable. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. THAT is disruption.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 17, 2020

Here is how you can use video to build client and consumer trust in your startup. However, few channels can match video content as the best medium to display a company’s competence and expertise that will let you in to your customer’s hearts. First of all — why video? Effective videos must be captivating and entertaining.

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Video Software Review Startup Audience 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On YouTube, a keyword-targeted pre-roll ad might show the same video to a CEO and an intern. LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. Fundamentally, there’s nothing unique about a video for a LinkedIn ad. The same video content likely works well in other channels.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Create a “ viral ” landing page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs. Embed a slideshow on your site with Slideshare or embed a video/tour using Youtube or Vimeo. JustinMind , Balsamiq ). 99 Designs is great to get “good enough” graphic design and web design work for very cheap using a contest format.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

We have no doubt that the storage market is being disrupted and that each city is lined with what will look like ex Blockbuster Video locations one day or frankly be converted to more productive / high value use since many of them are urban. years of software development. That’s some of what I suspect that team at 8VC saw in MakeSpace.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Read everything you can about viral marketing. There is TweetDeck to help you use Twitter, and YouTube for video sharing. When is the last time you produced a video for your business, or a podcast, or sponsored a contest with free gifts? Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

It created viral buzz because other fans saw the email address and wanted to know how they got it. The labels said he could do live streaming himself but they didn’t want him to stream any music or videos since ustream wasn’t paying them. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

If you don’t know, Ring offers home security products that started with a video doorbell, then video floodlights, outdoor stickup cams and now in-home security features that innovate in-home security alongside outside protection. Were we SURE that consumers would buy a video doorbell? we were sold on the concept immediately.

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Security Los Angeles Silicon Valley Video 247

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The process is especially tricky before you’re ready to distribute your final product, but teaser videos, downloadable PDFs and other digital content provide options for social sharing long before a product’s ship date. Its product announcement and teaser video have been shared heavily in anticipation of the product’s release.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

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. Rinse and repeat.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

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. With each new video, we had pushed the limits further and further, which gained us international attention and eventually led to meeting Ronaldo’s team and getting into business with him to launch a new brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

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. Can we take this video and put it in 10 different contests? Behind the scenes videos do great.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

I had a similar chat with Matt Coffin of LowerMyBills ( blog post & video here ) where he tells his similar story. They qualify every initiative with, “well this didn’t prove viral adoption last time so I don’t expect a silver bullet this time.” We found a way through it. He did even more so than I did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

How many video companies went through the roof when FB promoted video only to go into a free-fall dive when they don’t promote the app and when core users aren’t addicted to the product. But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company.

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Product B2B Warrant Technical Review 150

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo You’ll need on-site visits even in this day and age of video-conferencing. simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy). That’s a better question.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

And there’s of course content creation, which is being massively transformed by generative AI: writing, creating images, video, audio or music are now possible and mostly free with a prompt. Users are getting used to being shown relevant content recommended algorithmically, influenced by Spotifty, Youtube, Tiktok and others.

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Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Except that MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

You can virtually download a setup guide or a video and, using the power of APIs, do it in a day. 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. The same goes for cryptocurrency wallets. Use of Digital Wallets.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Using this metric on your white papers, case studies, and videos is setting yourself up to fail. Focus on content engagement metrics, such as how long someone watched your video, instead of click-throughs. Obsessing over going viral. Creative agency founder Dan Kelsall has helped many of his clients go viral.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 The video content will remain effective for another couple of years: from DIY to answering the most common questions to reviewing the products. We noticed the short video format works well. We focused on short videos, which worked for us.

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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? YouTube empowers its premium subscribers to experience YouTube Red or Premium, which allows users to play the audio of any YouTube video as background audio — much like a podcast. Remember Spotify got its big break in the U.S. Remember Stitcher? Remember Pandora?

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Acquisition Media Audio Technical Review 134

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you have an hour to watch the TWiVC video of Seth I promise you won’t regret it. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. He’s open and insightful with his knowledge. Series A round.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. It is a lovely emotional video (really was!). That video got a magnificent number of Likes. Even if there were millions of Likes on the post with the deeply emotional video about the new product. Gets more Likes. Newspapers!

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Viral short form can help! Viral short form can exponentially increase awareness of your startup brand. You can highlight KLT elements on Reels, but I can’t see that going viral. Long form media such as our #DemystifyingMTB podcast or building new YouTube videos may end up being a better investment of our time.

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Viral Startup Bootstrapping Algorithm 108

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

In addition to Newest First or Ratings High to Low, you also see other lovely and helpful things like Photo Reviews First, Video Reviews First, Length Long to Short etc. I'm sure you know that only a small tiny handful percent of attention in the video space is being earned by big or small beauty brands. Awesome, is it not?

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Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 151

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Content – Arriving in forms such as text, videos, presentations, images, audio, and micro-content (Facebook status updates, tweets, etc), content is a key driver of online influence. Systematically engaging influencers who are most willing (or least passive) to distribute your contents virally. Nuff said.

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Technical Review Singapore Algorithm Social Media 160

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Through informative blog posts, in-depth whitepapers, entertaining videos, or engaging infographics, financial businesses can establish themselves as leaders within their industry while building long-term relationships founded upon mutual respect among their target market.

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