YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They learn design skills alongside sewing and patternmaking, so that there is less reliance on mass manufactured clothing retailers, and they get to wear fashionable, unique handmade garments. Our goal was to create a viral environment where personal networks and recommendations helped drive online store purchases.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. So were do we go from here?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What sets companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook apart, even from other successful high-tech companies, is that they have consistently been able to design and execute business models with characteristics that allow them to quickly achieve massive scale and sustainable competitive advantage.”. The third is high gross margins.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. This is a must read not only for photographers, but for anyone involved in graphic design or who considers himself a creative person. Its new size and proportion leaves room for plenty of visual messages.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Marketing is Design. Note: by “Design&# I mean technical (application) design. Design is a less constrained environment than coding. Design is a blank sheet of paper with no syntax highlighting, no compiler, a few rules of thumb, and a lot of experience. In design, trial and error (a.k.a.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

This probably means capitalizing on the unique experience or abilities of the founding team, choose trade-offs in things like language/framework, algorithms, UX design , and delivery platform that the team is particularly adept in and thus can create quickly and with low risk. Social Media makes group-games viral.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. I changed the design a few times. It’s very simple. It’s just content.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

SlideRocket – Design professional quality presentations and then deliver them in person or over the Web. Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people. ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents. Xythos – Online document management and storage.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

For freemium businesses, particularly ones that are social apps, there’s often a word of mouth or viral component, which we’ll cover in a second. Funnel Once you get your users registered onto the site, then there’s the question of how convert to paying customers, and whether there are any viral effects.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. 4) Easy Payments that Ensure Virality. People like Instapaper because of the simple and elegant design. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? 6) Consumer Friendly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship , small business , leadership, social media , marketing, and more! 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) Why You’re Going to Hire the Wrong Designer – [link].

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