VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3. We’re excited to partner with early stage founders who see the future in the same way, and are working on the technologies that will help bring this vision forward. Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

“How do we design and build a world-class mobile experience that not only satisfies the needs of our users, but fuels growth and inspires more people to join the Airbnb global community? Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going. It all starts with culture. “By

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Based on my experience of many years in the startup community, here are some key principles that seem to generate real innovative thinking within the most successful entrepreneurs I know: Push yourself to go “outside the box” for real change. Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Can you really communicate your life’s accomplishments and skill-set through an 8.5 My Twitter following increased and I began to get more attention in tech and blogging communities. Can we all agree resumes are crummy?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. This rapid craze beseeches an explanation. Channel instability. Product-growth fit.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Users invite new users by sharing folders and files.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. The BlogFrog concept was born.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! instead of having to travel home. .&#

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). SXSW is the place of startup launches?—?Twitter

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2013

This is something Tackk’s co-founder and lead designer Dan Klammer does with most of Tackk’s interface designs…and it really helps him get a sense of how the design fits within the totality of the experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Still, a product is nothing without scalability. 3) Facebook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Speaking of tattoos – Interview with @micah , CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly – [link]. There, I Said It: Screw Viral Videos – [link]. Interesting info about the crowdSPRING creative community - [link]. Interesting info about the crowdSPRING creative community - [link]. – [link].

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

Founder Sarah talks a little bit more below about sustaining AMP’s mission: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? Our website is for professionals working on very specific issues, so that created a challenge in getting the campaign to go viral. Currently, AMP is development and production.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

You too can motivate and incentivize your Facebook and Twitter followers to actually promote the brand in a viral way through these simple steps: Step #1: Create Bite-Sized Tasks. George Elfond is the co-founder and CEO of Rallyware. Step #2: Make Tracking Easy. Consulting’s Los Angeles and London offices.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. As Kim learned, segmentation can tailor marketing messages for small, loyal communities within a larger customer base.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. Noble Leather Co. via Shopify ].

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

Joe Flanagan, Founder, 90s Fashion World No, Too Many Lenders While the idea of sourcing capital from multiple smaller sources is an enticing one, the reality is far less pleasant. A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. Inbar Madar , Founder and Business Consultant, M.I.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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View from Seed

JULY 22, 2015

It’s not pretty, it’s not about going viral, and it’s sure as hell not always a nice, repeatable process. Community Contributions From: Casey Henry, Growth Expert & Marketing Analyst, Wistia – @caseyhen. Andy Crestodina, Author & Co-founder, Orbit Media – @Crestodina.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Paths to $5M for a startup founder – [link]. Raising funding as a first-time founder – [link]. The Illustrated Anatomy of a Viral Pinterest Scam – [link]. Secrets to Select and Evaluate Innovative Business Ideas – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

That’s why I recommend that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one expert on the technical solution, and the other with business model experience. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. A few weeks of organized effort should be enough time to develop a name and gain consensus among your co-founders, but if you’re on a tight schedule, it’s also possible to do in just a few days. viral video. viral videos.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. viral video. viral videos. On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. Create Viral Content Infographics startup Visual.ly raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. ); //]]> Welcome to Mashable!

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Has anybody else used this site yet? I have been so focused on traditional mediums.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. And Netflix is planning to lead in that wave.

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