Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. I am Eric Ries.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral.

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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. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Has anybody else used this site yet?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

how many follows you want to gain in a month or quarter) Post consistently (or have curated a plan to) with a detailed content calendar. The culture they foster is entrepreneurial and community-driven—traits that are reflected in their startup and small business target audience. Repurposed reviews and feedback.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2013

Users craved a “safe” place where they could belong to several communities based on interests and Tumblr provided that. Tumblr simultaneously provided a decentralized and centralized mode of creation and consumption (and sharing, which added to its viral growth). Theoretically, this is a great combination.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We made a prototype that accurately monitored multiple vital signs and decided to create a startup company that would make tracking a person’s vital signs convenient, accurate and simple. Thanks to Eve Tokens, The Creative Curator. #3 But it also created an ideal environment for startups. Thanks to Xin Xie, Lifestone. #2

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before. My weekly newsletter on NYC events, with over 3300 subscribers, covers over a dozen events each week--and that's curated!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. What I mean by that is, let’s say I’m an ed-tech startup that’s focused on some kind of product for home schooling.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

The cycle combines concepts from the world of Lean Startup — which is all about continuous, iterative improvement — with analytics fundamentals. If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. That metric is tied to a KPI. But they are.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2020

Become Part of the Community. If you decide to open a physical store or another real-world location, it is paramount that you choose to integrate your business with the community that you are hoping to garner the support of. If you want to spread the word online, you should create a social media account to create viral posts.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Over the years, we’ve seen enough startups come and go (and rebrand and merge) to fill a volume with how and how not to develop and execute a logo for a web company. Learn more here.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Over the years, we’ve seen enough startups come and go (and rebrand and merge) to fill a volume with how and how not to develop and execute a logo for a web company. Learn more here.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 6, 2015

Increased usage of social media allows business and brands to create value by building a community of loyal followers. A clever Facebook status can also be a great piece of viral content shared by thousands. 3) Brainstorm to curate/create different pieces of content that is relevant to your niche and brand.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Media Relations 101 for Your Startup – [link]. Startup Tip: Marketing One-To-One – [link]. The Five Whys for Startups – [link]. Thinking About Doing – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2020

Example #1 – Curate Relevant and Helpful Information for the Public. Takeaway: Curate information that will help people during this pandemic if you want to stay fresh in the news. Use information about the percentage change in people visiting retail/ recreational locations from Google’s COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest Craze. Latest Startups News. ← Previous Story Next Story → 5 Travel Brands Inspiring Wanderlust on YouTube Meme Machine: Hitler Skewers Googles Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics. Startups Lists. 7,561 followers. 2,215 followers. 2 followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I live in LA and fund startups. So you can imagine that I see a lot of video startups. I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). They have a curator. Startup Lessons'

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. Brands that will stand-out in 2016 will leverage the power of the community and create a strong ROI based on measurable data-backed decisions. Lots of advantages to the platform!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. Do you even want to go viral?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated.

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