Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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. These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. As Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs, we constantly are building web properties or creating content. WebDesignerWall.com : Blog for Web Designers What?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

Infographics offer the unique ability to go viral and get your brand in front of millions of online visitors in a single day. Here are five tips for creating an infographic that will go viral and global: 1. The key is to create a viral infographic campaign that has mass appeal, is timely and innovative.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Identify the audience. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Once you have identified your audience, locating them is the next step. Startup Example: Zappos.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

John Doerr of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist’s calls it the “next wave of the web.” It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Different websites will use varying techniques to win over an audience. Quite frankly, if a website isn’t optimised to suit the smaller screens, it is essentially shutting its doors to an audience of millions. A successful website targets the widest audience possible; mobile optimisation is key. Social Media Interaction.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? A story of an app from nowhere to near dominance. How has this happened, and are there lessons for us in this?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 28, 2023

The promise of Medium was that, at least in theory, if you weren’t a frequent poster, you’d be joining a collective of great writers and your thoughts would have a much better shot of being “discovered” (going viral). I wanted something that would put audience engagement back at the forefront and that looked more seamless.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. You are not rushing the audience to your digital existence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Today’s audience is looking for something more creative, more visual, engaging, and interactive. Here is where you have to think outside the box.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Retail or end user web sites do not even receive limited notice without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment. Intrigued by the thought, I recently made a list. Here is my list.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Of course that includes “mobile-first” applications and companies which ride the adoption of tablet devices (more on those in upcoming posts).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

Consumers now come to expect the ability to complete nearly all daily tasks via their smartphone whether it be sending emails, browsing the web, watching videos or even paying for products. The tremendous growth predicted in this industry means that marketers will have a wealth of new opportunities to capture their audience.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Each of these Web and mobile apps has evolved over months and some over years. 3) Facebook. 8) Angry Birds. All the grains of salt.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

You need a business strategy for attracting the target audience and earning profit off of your consumer base. The next thing is to do some market research on your target audience. We’ve come up with a few great ideas on how to promote your brand: Facebook – many brands use Facebook Ads to target audiences. Conclusion.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Dropbox is a perfect example of a company that relied heavily on product virality, which was built into the product.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2023

TikTok is used to create engaging and entertaining content that aligns with the brand's values and target audience. Entrepreneurs can employ popular trends, challenges, and collaborations with influencers to reach a wider audience and gain viral attention. Thanks to Martin Seeley, Mattress Next Day ! #2-

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Launch a viral competition. A viral competition is a competition where you enter with an email address, and then get extra entries for every person who signs up from your referral. For this viral competition we generated 2,987 emails for a total cost of $6,661.11 Here are some of the best approaches being used today… 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Probably not – you need to be finding an audience, making sure that audience will trade you their attention for your content, and – most importantly – establishing a baseline for how much that attention is worth to advertisers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. They are places to create, to innovate, to interact and to be in touch with your audience. That’s the place where you tell your audience what they will get by being your fans on Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Helps Content Go Viral. Posting on social media can increase your chances of making your content go viral. As soon as people begin liking, commenting, and sharing your posts, your content will more likely be exposed to a wide range of audiences throughout the world. Allows Your Business To Get Personal With Your Customers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

OK, so testing your product with an initial audience is always going to be a nerve-wracking time. Basecamp started out as a web design agency but created a project management tool for their internal projects as they could not find anything that solved all their problems. So you have solved a problem, but for a different audience.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Online marketing generates billions of dollars in revenue, and even local mom-and-pop businesses feel the pressure to build a solid web presence or risk losing local customers who search online for goods and services. Large marketers spend millions targeting audiences, and the competition for shares of the online pie becomes intense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Shortly after its private release, we announced Product Hunt in the press and shared with our audience, acquiring another 1,000 users over the next week. It’s a Long-Term Investment - It’s highly unlikely your first, second, third, or 50th post will “go viral.” It’s Not About You - Readers also don’t care how awesome you are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Illustrated Anatomy of a Viral Pinterest Scam – [link]. 25 Examples of Professional Typography in Web Design – [link]. Banksy on advertising – [link].

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

What follows are five ecommerce trends that illustrate the direction that online shopping is headed, as well as some insight and strategies that will allow businesses and consumers to better navigate the uncertain seas of web-based retail. Mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of accessing the web. Web Video Roundup.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. was drawn to when naming her company, which manages the input and output of a startup’s audience. Without a primarily US-based audience, they fare fine without a dot-com. Cofounder of Greenhouse.io

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