YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

How am I going to target the right audience? Make sure you have links in the media to spread your message. Let’s say you were just targeting a certain type of audience when you started for the first time. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. This is your only ticket to sell your products. Networking. Acquisition.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. Better still, you can create lookalike audiences of people with similar behavior and interests to those who have visited your site. Why is boutique fitness booming?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. HW: Anyone who’s been through an IPO, I always like to ask about the experience because it’s such a classic, if statistically rare, startup milestone.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I believe that online advertising is going through an important transition with the rise of real-time bidding platforms and advertisers increasing ability to buy audience vs sites. What are your thoughts about M&A and IPOs – and a successful exit for ad tech startups? Do you see a window developing?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. Id like to supplement that with some personal thank-yous.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. It’s a shame since it’s such a golden opportunity for you to build awareness with your audience for who you are and what you do. Educate – Your primary role on stage is to educate the audience. It’s your job to know thy audience.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

An accelerator can also help you gain media traction at the end of the program to build a captive audience around your official launch (or new product launches). To this end, look for an accelerator that has been consistently covered by media for the great work it has done with its startups. After all, people invest in people.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Facebook has mostly moved via bold acquisitions, starting with $1bn for Instagram six weeks before their IPO, moving the through $24bn for WhatsApp, before paying $2bn for Oculus. That’s four of the six largest social media properties on the planet, and they’re all still growing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Social media and the need to rank higher on search engines continues to grow in importance with U.S. The global population has a great interest in social commerce, but user-to-user commerce on social media is illegal there. Currently in South and Southeast Asia only 37% of the population uses social media. after living abroad.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Ronnie’s audience was looking for tips on products that would help them achieve their lifestyle goals, and that’s when we realized there was a huge opportunity for Ronnie to make money sharing the products she believed in with her engaged audience. Think; custom stock photography. Influencers do not post the content.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. These entrepreneurs understand the concept of lean startup and as opposed to entrepreneurs of the past who hailed from big media/ad agencies/big companies, this new generation of startups starts with the tech guys, the way it should be.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. These entrepreneurs understand the concept of lean startup and as opposed to entrepreneurs of the past who hailed from big media/ad agencies/big companies, this new generation of startups starts with the tech guys, the way it should be.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

So when I heard Kathryn gave the University of Chicago commencement speech I suggested that she reach out to a larger audience and share her decades of experience. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. Her response? I also learned that the first time without a paycheck is a little scary. Find Your Obession.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2- A business I built IPO’ed. A business that I built just IPO’ed (yesterday actually and I am still smiling). We are a small profession of only approximately 75K qualified actuaries worldwide and hence getting a big audience was going to be a challenge. All in all, 2020 was a great year at Hill Law Firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How iRidium used audience targeting, networking, and activation to land 34 new sales opportunities. This allowed them to focus on one audience’s specific needs. iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), You'll currently find the reports in the Audience folder and the Benchmarking sub-folder. And other such things.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 14, 2012

PRWeek ran this article I wrote last week, but if you missed it… Facebook has been making loads of press lately – with the billion-dollar purchase of Instagram and an IPO that many are calling a failure. But the company would lose a ton of the Instagram audience immediately. Wait, what? Why would Facebook create a camera app?

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

> Know your audience. Your plan should be written in a language that your audience will understand. Or perhaps in traditional media? Getting the media to cover you can be a great way to reach your customers. Social Media. Will you be advertising online? Public Relations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow. Now consider a traditional media business. Sorry about that.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. I had Mike Stelzner on recently and he’s a social media examiner. I think that when you have built up an audience, that audience does want more of you. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. I do go back.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This time, I was lucky enough to have my friend Nivi from Venture Hacks in the audience, and he was recording. It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. IMVU learned to learn.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It continues to worm its way into innumerable agency and media company presentations. While your audience does face an increasingly large number of distractions, it’s time we put the goldfish myth to bed. Different audiences will respond differently to different send times, it’s up to you find out what works best for your list.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

It drives up valuations, creates interest in the category among other investors, and in a new space a well funded competitor is usually out there educating audiences about the very problem the startup solves. Blog but be careful what and how much There are plenty of VCs whose blogs and social media posts I enjoy. That’s awesome.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2011

Even though global IPO markets may now be showing a bit of an uptick, indicative of the trend of new company formations after the abysmal depths of 2007 to 2010, any entrepreneur who has been trying to raise capital for a new venture does not have to be told that money is tighter than ever and investors have taken risk aversion to new heights.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Eric, thanks for this post very helpful.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

Based on that research, he identified seven common traits of successful people, and shared four of those traits with our audience. I know that you don’t just let anyone talk to your audience, and so I will hopefully honor that, and try to make good use of everybody’s time. What I knew how to do was build on my audience.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2017

It goes without saying that the content and style of your presentation is integral to your success with all audiences. Every nuance of your website and your social media presence matters; it costs no more to exude success and style across all channels than to look like a home-brew startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. And then I even wrote who our priority audiences were. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. But it's like taking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. Over three nights and two days of drinking, schmoozing, and panel discussion, many of the industries insiders spoke their minds plainly, and the bumbled Facebook IPO was a frequent topic of conversation."Excuse By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2014

by Jonathan Sellers, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. It seems nothing changes faster than the big social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google+. So, do brands and businesses just abandon the platform and the audience there? Professionalisms Facebook Online marketing social media marketing'

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The panel discussed the virtues and vices that startups face when deciding to go public or stay private, or, as one audience member pointed out: to get bought out. Extremely important for companies to plan their IPOs during a “strategic window” that will increase their odds of success. Investors want IPOs, but there are alternatives.”

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T oday, Internet users are overwhelmed with options to share and consume various types of media. But the solutions are very partial, focusing each on only one type of media (with the exception of Facebook perhaps). He started to look at his own experience with music and media as a user. VC Cafe: What’s the story behind Libox?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

These combined effects have helped open new markets, new geographies, and new economic opportunities for people worldwide; they’ve also drawn the ire of privacy advocates, aspiring politicians, and the airwaves on social media and the traditional media at-large. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect. That’s the politics.

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