YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. The rest is just digital noise. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. The rest is just digital noise. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When a top 10 company by valuation like Facebook, changes its name and focus to the MetaVerse – it is going to generate a lot of attention. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 Facebook / Meta wants to own what it thinks will be the future of social interaction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

I have no problem doing this, so I’ve started to set up a short code word for each event and I simply say text “event name” to the code and people get a message that allows them to download the slides on the spot while I’m standing up there in front of them. Related Posts: Are Small Private Social Networks the Next Layer?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

With the prevalence of social media, there is almost no excuse for a cold-call or cold-email anymore. As Mark Suster, a prominent venture capitalist, put it very aptly at my Founder Showcase event, “in the era of social networks, if you can’t figure out how to get access to a venture capitalist, hang up your cleats now.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Most famous among them is Peter Thiel, who we know in 2004 invested $500,000 into Facebook at a valuation of approximately $4.9 These days that includes social networking, gaming (mobile and otherwise), healthcare information technology, personal and business productivity software, entertainment convergence, and of course all things Apple.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2010 (found this in my drafts). From the article by Lev Grossman: Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. Looks like there are a lot of good pieces in the Time spread.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2012

I have a pretty rough idea of what an upcoming week is going to entail, but I leave room to stumble on an emerging idea, change in some social network or the occasional rant as I consume content. Snap shot of 2004 version 1 of the Duct Tape Marketing Weblog. I don’t plan what I am going to write too far in advance.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. But, the name of the game is your target audience. Their numbers are impressive. In only 18 months, it went from 0 to 500 000 customers. Today, the numbers are even more insane.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Until 2004, when the U.S. Social networks have their own switching costs. Intangible assets constitute patents and trademarks,” writes Alex Graham , “but also hard-earned competitive advantages, such as brand names and culture.”. More than any other moat, switching costs often serve companies, not consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

Anyone looking to carve out a promising career, and “future-proof” themselves professionally , will need to focus on treating their personal reputation as a distinct brand name. Making a name for yourself has never been so critical, and crafting an identity is exactly where branding (when done right) excels. Microsoft’s recent $26.2

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. Do you know the name of the cleaning person? That’s it. That’s what we do.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia? In a May 2008 blog post, The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking , I include a few excerpts from his post-mortem, in which he essentially predicts FourSquare: Most importantly, there was a “location problem”. Name (required).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They’ve grown to attract big-name clients like LinkedIn, PayPal, and Shopify, mostly through social media channels rather than organic search. And users say that social media has increased their access to information , ease of communication, and freedom of expression. Choose the right social media platforms.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. Matomy - provider of alternative payment solutions for social network applications, online and freemium games, MMOs and other players in the online marketplace. Miscellanous.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? I challenge you to name a 1.7 Berlin Brown.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

While other celebrities are trying to make their clothing lines stand out from the rest, Welch went a completely different direction and created a name for herself in the wig industry. Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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