Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Social network page views are much more likely to be internally focused; ads are more of a distraction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

If you are using social media marketing as a channel to grow your business, awesome! And you could be regularly posting to Facebook and Twitter, but if you’re not measuring how those social networks are working for you, and you’re not testing different approaches to maximize your results, you could be wasting valuable time.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By Vanessa Richardson.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

cities, including Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco, for large groups of potential buyers on the Web, through email or via social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. The 1980/90’s also saw the rise of the Home Shopping Network on the backbone of expanding cable and satellite broadcast television.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. In order to choose sales channels, you need to know your startup’s lifetime value. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. I do agree on the point of knowing how to channel that marketing pr into hard cash.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

There are other models, in other distribution channels. This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Bring your questions.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Step #3 — Knowing where your target “hangs out” — having defined your target and their decision criteria, the next step aims at identifying where you are most likely to find the target talent, including what communication channels would be effective for recruitment messages. Social networking applications (SNAs).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Zozi , which sells unique experiences and activities, is headquartered in San Francisco’s Financial District and has its own pad. Soon they had grown into a shared space in San Francisco, and finally zozi got its own office space in August 2008. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Andrasick says, “Smaller stores aren’t saddled with anachronistic organizational structures that segment a business by channel, such as store, catalog or digital.”. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. Social Media.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Subscribe to the Business channel. 9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012. 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Now more than ever, social media channels are increasingly the norm, so further investing in community activities like meet-ups and workshops can add a face-to-face element — one that is extremely valuable. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Subscribe to the Business channel. Social Networks etc. Google Offers Free Wi-Fi in India to Access Social Networks. International Journalists Network. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

(My company’s CEO, Patrick Salyer, explains why multiple online personas make it imperative that companies offer social logins beyond Facebook Connect.). Sure, Facebook will almost always be the dominant player in share-of-logins, but we’ve seen the other players account for up to a combined 60% share of social logins.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Subscribe to the Business channel. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. 1 follower.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports startups tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.9

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 14 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Publisher Platform (P3). startupcto

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Subscribe to the Business channel. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social media marketing. social networking. Social Media. Social Good. Angel investors. 14 followers. Angellist.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Subscribe to the Business channel. Giftiki: The Social Gift For the Facebook User Who Has Everything. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social media marketing. social networking. Social Media.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This tool also includes basic social network analysis (building friend/follower information, twitter profiles etc]. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. Social Media.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

The Future of Search Series is presented by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo , the leading interactive digital and online marketing event. The Future of Search Series is presented by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo , the leading interactive digital and online marketing event. Social Media Lists. Social Good.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I just launched a small online retail business last week, and feel a bit lost about marketing ideas and how to get the most out of social media channels. Hey Dan, I was at your presentation in San Francisco, and you called that 1.7 Social amplification. Hope that helps. Looping referrals or something?

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. Subscribe to the Business channel. Where can an Emmy award winning cinematographer make a case for his channel? I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. Social Media Lists.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

The most finely-honed messages and beautiful content won’t have much impact if only two dozen social media ‘followers’ ever get to see it. Companies that move into social media need to ensure that they have a sufficient base of followers for their social platforms to be an effective channel. 2] [link]. [3] 3] Joshua P.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

You’ve probably already used this trick when a username is taken on one of the big social networking sites. Subscribe to the Business channel. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out. I reached out to Gilad Lotan and we decided to map the network, to look at message dissemination techniques. They just do it.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

.” The name is important for discoverability , whether in Google searches (10% to 50%+ of site traffic, depending on the category), the App Store (especially painful in iOS6) and other text-based discovery channels. Subscribe to the Business channel. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Kevin is in San Francisco, where he attended GDC (the Games Development Conference) and I spent the week in London, where I attended Mind the Tech London by Calcaslist, moderating a panel on the role of startups in building the New Internet (a term which loosely combines all the circles below). Regulation is coming.

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