Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In 2000, when Interbrand first started issuing its Best Global Brands report, Apple ranked #36 and had a brand value of $6.6 billion– a nearly 15 times increase over its value in 2000. Coca-Cola dominated the top spot for the past 13 years. Today, Apple’s brand value has increased to $98.3

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

With the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, risk-averse investors wanted to invest in more than just a business plan – they wanted to see real customers and real revenue before they stumped up the money. But starting, running and growing a startup has its challenges, says Banks. There was also less seed investment available.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The third wave of podcasting.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Our goal was to create a viral environment where personal networks and recommendations helped drive online store purchases. We asked ourselves – How can social media and commerce exist in harmony? Many entrepreneurs have attempted to tackle Social Commerce, but few have succeeded.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

These business would scale on the sheer virality of their communities. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. In the case of these two companies, I clearly picked the wrong product. Sure, other mistakes were made but I was adamant that once people started using the product, they'd tell all their friends.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The third wave of podcasting.

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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. So were do we go from here? Software 2.0: ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You may sell into enterprises from day one but you are not enterprise-scale until you reach enterprise scale and that takes time.

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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. He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. How has the viral coefficient been for you? Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. The viral adoption went to 15-20 per share action.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. Social Media makes group-games viral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day. By learning how these creators make a living with their art and creativity, creative elements helps you gain the tools and confidence to do the same.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. Hence, the micro-outcome choice is My Edition Signups.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. Literally went viral. We feel stress and anxiety, so it can be bad for our health. And the most fascinating finding, I worked with Virgin Pulse. And it revealed something really fascinating. I used to do campaign.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. Literally went viral. We feel stress and anxiety, so it can be bad for our health. And the most fascinating finding, I worked with Virgin Pulse. And it revealed something really fascinating. I used to do campaign.

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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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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. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

A better approach would be to create a few videos (about your site’s mission, a separate video telling each vendor’s story, etc…) and post them to YouTube, Facebook, and other viral video sites. You want to facilitate word of mouth (aka viral) recommendations as much as possible.

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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. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. I have around 2000 emails to verify. BrandDoozie – A DIY online marketing material creation suite that helps you create professional-looking business cards, brochures, logos, and more. Awsome post btw. Yalcin Great list. some real gems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I just spent a year trying to do a $2000 … offering for this bank to reach 100 people. We launched at 9 am and …I remember thinking, “Okay, it’s going to go viral. These … guys and girls my age were raising millions of dollars to build apps and build startups that were reaching tens of millions of people. This is it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. 2000 Absolutely Free Textures – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Everything from that right the way down to buying the $2000 course, you know what I mean, the shields go up. And that’s exactly the kind of viral type of environment that we thrive on. At the end of the day, and I talk about this very early on in the book, it will always just come down to trust. ” Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.

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