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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. The Kik Chat app launched in April 2010 for iOS and BlackBerry initially. It began at RIM. Pivot to chat.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. but before long the secret was out and by 2010 our 2 person sales team was competing against dozens of huge publishers bundling together pet sections and use their large nationwide sales efforts to fight for our bread and butter ad buys.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply Mike Byrnes , on April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am said: Steve: I just found your site and blog from a link off Venture Hacks “Two great talks from SLLConf&# I fell like I’ve just found the mother lode! Thanks a million. Now I’ve really got my work cut out, but you just gave me a big “leg up&#.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. So what can you do?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

” Other Adobe products offer capabilities for marketing automation and email, media optimization, audience insights creating and delivering experiences across digital and television,and social. I also love the ability to trigger push notifications, SMS and emails. They also make it easy to get data out, though it is a bit tricky.