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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Yeah. Alpha Lee : Right, so I then started a research group in Cambridge. Alpha Lee : Right.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also got a new book called Social Media Success for Every Brand: the five StoryBrand Pillars That Turn Posts Into Profits. But let’s talk about social media in general. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30).

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. There’s all the startup marketing ideas you’d expect: Adverts, split-tests, media splashes, networking, pitch-competitions, inside baseball, creative stunts, SxSW launches, you name it. The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ).

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. She was ranked 5th on Forbes’ Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer list.

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10 Search Engines That Don’t Start With A G, B, Or Y

YoungUpstarts

With a proprietary algorithm that sorts the results of several platforms into one cohesive list, Search is a powerful engine that separates sponsored links from the returned relevant results and allows customization of metasearch options. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler.

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