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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

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COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle. View more jobs » View Comments Ryan Rosado Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 1:14 am This is wonderful resource/nugget for budding entrepreneurs (as myself). STOKED!!!!

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I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 2 :: Small.

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Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Just don’t forsake that natural ability because you’re so focused on domain names, SEO and empty vessels. Is It Sticky?

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