A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. A big, profitable company seems like the hardest thing for a small company to compete against.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Flash mobs. There’s no better way to capture the attention of a great number of people at the same time than staging a flash mob. It would be unfair to skip social media platforms as the most obvious and easily utilized channels for guerrilla marketing tactics. Social media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. Participants were then tested on cognition, feelings, and behavior. .”

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

In late 2020, Facebook announced that it would cease to support Flash-based games. Blockchain games channel mod culture and empower third-party developers to customize their own gameplay experiences through plug-ins and third-party clients. Consider FarmVille. With blockchain technology, that dynamic has shifted.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard is like flashing your driver’s license or passport on the internet. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy. It also streamlines your web experience. Six words of advice to those looking to start their own company. .

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 18, 2012

Gilt Groupe was one of the pioneers… the concept is simple, create scarcity for highly desirable merchandise in a time or unit limited online sale that relied on social channels for promotion. Ideeli.com is another popular flash sale site, as is RueLaLa.com.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. “Visual and verbal information are processed differently and along distinct channels in the human mind, creating separate representations for information processed in each channel.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

But give credit where credit is due – meeting Mark Zuckerberg in a Palo Alto bar and writing him a check for $500,000 when Facebook was still in its college dorm mode, channeled the Romans and their famous ode to luck - "Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat," "Fortune Favors the Bold." Cultivate Serendipity.

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Social Network Networking Technical Review Flash 72

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

The site carries brands curated from a range of categories – fashion, tech, gadgets, art, accessories, design, sports gear, entertainment, food, and wine, amongst others – and items are presented via videos in flash sales and “pop-up shops” formats (somewhat similar in concept to the women-centric NMRKT ).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We use redirects / vanity urls in our multi-channel campaigns , in our display or search campaigns or even just for the heck of it. A smaller problem for normal sites with just text and some images, but a huge problem for fat ugly flash heavy websites (especially the, still annoying, ones with flash intros).

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2013

Avoid Flash and Popups. Popups and Flash should both be avoided in a mobile environment. Flash animations are another feature that detracts from mobile content due to their slower load time. Flash animations are another feature that detracts from mobile content due to their slower load time.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2016

They work hard on finding complementary channels and partners. Never assume that a great solution will sell itself, or won’t need the help of dominant distribution channels and partners with existing customer bases. Entrepreneurs with a habit of thinking long-term focus on their core competency to build a recognizable brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Are you present on all relevant social channels? Google Analytics – Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications. .” You just need to be where your target audience hangs out online. Are social icons featured on your website?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2016

StickerRide comes in a time when the world needs a less noisy and less cluttered advertisement channel than what is currently seen in the digital media. Car owners can even increase their earnings by participating in quests and flash mob challenges. StickerRide is currently being used by over 40,000 drivers and leading brand names.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It is a channel disguised in business clothing. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. Flash is not supported, which means that all assets you’ve developed for the Internet that work in Flash are worthless for this device. It’s a channel. It is a waste for most brands.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google Analytics contains the Top Conversion Paths report. The reason I love the above view is that for each channel, I'm able to present our management team a simple, yet powerful, understanding of the contribution of our marketing channels – including search.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

News flash – most of them think about it very differently than I do. The best partner channel. One thing that came up was the idea of creating the best product. This has been an on and off cliche in the tech business for a long time. It doesn’t just mean the best UI. Or the best UX. It includes the best distribution.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). That's sucking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster. Does it produce any results?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 12, 2015

when Stuart Buttefield switched from the failed flash game Glitch to Slack) whereas Steve Blank defines a pivot as a smaller iteration of a business model or idea (e.g. a change of channel or customer segment).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The Honey Bee Network provides opportunities for some of the world’s most marginalized peoples to channel their creative, inventorial and entrepreneurial inclinations. Sometimes, ideas that simmer instead of flash fry end up extremely profitable — and occasionally even game-changing. Frank Gehry asks “Then what?”

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. Here’s how Nextiny ’s channel appears on their website: Users can customize the look of a channel (e.g.

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster. Does it produce any results?

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Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 44

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2023

HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use CRM now. Man, there are so many channels, so little time. I have to be in this channel. That's dtm.world/certification. (08:49): They, they're coming fast and furious every day.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. Brainscape.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2019

Video has become a major marketing channel. When potential customers watch a video about how you solved an issue for your existing customer, there’s an instant flash of recognition. 5 Great Ways to Add Video to Your Website Experience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

You can run Twitter-only sales, host flash sales, product releases, etc. But what we’ve noticed is using social channels purely to sell products will result in failure and most companies are making that mistake. Of course, promoted tweets, like Facebook ads, are an added benefit. all from Twitter.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2012

From a medical device entrepreneur having that flash of insight as to how to best position his business for a strategic sale, to the software entrepreneur reflecting on how best to integrate a traditional marketing channel (radio) with a burgeoning one (texting), new and powerful business ideas and tactics were hatched and committed to.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The new player automatically adapts to device platform standards, including HTML5, and provides functionality for sharing eCommerce video via social media and email channels. Invodo’s latest version of the InPlayer supports both Flash and HTML5. We’re making that easy for them to accomplish.”.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Not spending 15% of your Marketing budget, every month, on experimenting with new techniques / channels / ideas. Gratuitous use of Flash. It is not Adobe's fault, it is your fault for using Flash for the most pathetic things mankind has known. Remember every time you use flash on your website, a cute puppy dies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2012

They are also three times as likely as their parents to use social channels to research their purchases. Posting videos to your own YouTube channel will help not only boost the social sharing of your videos, but can also increase your SEO rankings. So how can you incorporate user-generated content into your video channel?

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Peter: Do flash animations still work? Jonathan: I love flash animations. I’ve got five tips for you today. Hey guys, what do you think makes a great homepage? Have you been to any cool homepages? What actually stands out to you? John: I don’t think that’s … Jonathan: Is that what makes a good homepage?

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SBA Technical Review Software Review Small Business 60

Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

When we were trying to decide on a name for our business we tossed around a lot of flashy sounding names before remembering that in the healthcare industry people aren't looking for flash, they're looking for help. 25- While watching the Discovery Channel. Works great for us, as long as you don't confuse it with Coin Error.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 22, 2010

Putting commercials in front of people during TV shows back when there were like 5 channels was a successful strategy. More creative content that might start with a TV commercial but then extends to the web in social channels. Then people got VCRs. Then they upgraded to DVRs. So what are we seeing?

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Social Network Flash Channel Networking 58

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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