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The Age of Viral Finance

Start Up Blog

But it isn’t just memes and videos that can go viral. World’s First Viral Bank Failure Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a very important bank to the startup and tech eco system in the USA. As you can imagine, this blog post, raised many eyebrows in Silicon Valley. Because they expect it, they make it so.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3).

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BlogFrog – From Blogs To Communities

YoungUpstarts

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Free to install, it allows the readers of a blog to interact with one another, engage in discussions, as well as share online content such as photos and videos. Facilitating Blog Interaction.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

I feel like I’m often looking for interesting things to read about a variety of subjects, but I manage to include your blog among my reads every day. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. internet.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments. internet.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? You Manage What you Measure. How many through SEM?

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments. internet.