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How to create a 1M+ views Instagram Reel for your startup

NZ Entrepreneur

Short form engagement leads to real engagement Web traffic was up 30-40x at its peak, and is still 10x while our content remains favoured by the algorithm gods. However, time spent on our site has been down compared to those who actively found us through web search. Viral short form can help!

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

By far, the majority of new businesses I know are self-funding (bootstrapped) from your own savings and prior assets. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property. Explore multiple sources based on your level of need and risk.

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our viral spread coefficient? What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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Dissection of a viral launch | iubenda blog

www.iubenda.com

Dissection of a viral launch. Many of you asked, so I decided to write this blog post, dissecting the launch of iubenda and the viral system we invented. The viral system. We built our custom viral system based on the best examples out there, adding some further fresh ideas we had during the process. iubenda blog.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible.

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Ways to Acquire Users for Free

Spencer Fry

You want to trace back to the web environments of your most lucrative cohorts, figuring out who they are and why they're converting better than other users. The Viral Strategy. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. Everyone loves free stuff.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.