David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. They read reviews of the products of target investments. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

Technical Review 78

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Once you master step one… graduate to the next level, aim for the large possible global audience that is relevant for your products/services/mission. Take your existing customer testimonials and put them on your brand channel.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It’s based largely on my personal experience naming several tech products as well as the themes I’ve noticed in great startup names. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Productivity Lists. viral video. viral videos. Mobile Lists.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

LaunchRock gives startups a turnkey solution for a custom coming soon page that allows users to sign up for updates and share the fact that they did so. Create Viral Content Infographics startup Visual.ly We took the creative approach with our messaging as well as integrated Facebook and Twitter to encourage virality.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The product is the star of the show.” GLIIF’s initial offering includes a brand-able and blend-able custom encrypted image at a low cost of entry, pre re-direction marketing services and full analytics. Productivity Lists. viral video. viral videos. Global Syndication Partners. Flag this comment.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For the majority of the naming process, you’ll be iterating on two steps: creating a list of words that are related to your product or service, as well as creating permutations of these words to determine the final name. Example : Pinterest, Etsy product search, Google image search. Productivity Lists. Generating the Root Word.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. How many customers have signed up to your service? What is your viral coefficient? Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Productivity Lists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Twitter is inherently viral.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Hacked Zappos Customers: Beware Phishing Scams. And often, businesses suffer from a “set it and forget” mentality, in which a product manager will slap a Facebook Like button on his sites and declare the business’s website now social. Meme Machine: ‘Hitler’ Skewers Google’s Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics.

Technical Review 78

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. The best advice is to pull your closest customers even closer. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. You can’t architect a viral success.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Mobile websites that aren’t optimized for touch or for larger screens can make customers confused, and again, unlikely to purchase.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. With that in mind, here are four tips for entrepreneurs looking to expand globally. in place before you expand.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

What’s the first thing you want a customer to think in regard to your business? After all, what good is word-of-mouth if your customer tells a friend, “You really should look up my caterer for your next event. Adding this qualifier instantly tells potential customers what your business is all about. Set the tone. SkareMedia.

Naming 97

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. If your startup is in that boat, it’s really not a matter of figuring out how to pitch your company — instead, you may want to consider improving your product before hitting the pavement. Customize Your Pitches.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

For them, “working from home is the most efficient situation for us to build our product — we can be machines over here,&# says Golkin, explaining that the two simply “work, eat, sleep and gym, all with a constant Spotify soundtrack.&# Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! instead of having to travel home.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

" Oh look Google is still our Number 1 referrer and we are selling lots of product x as we always do. " I did not even know 20% of our customers were from Australia and that 9 days ago they all stopped coming to our site. " Do the same thing with your custom alerts. " And you know what? How does it work?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

LevelUp uses payment as a checkin, presenting merchants the opportunity to reward loyal customers. Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. dog products ? Productivity Lists. viral video. Global Syndication Partners.

New York City 83

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

He proceded to tell me a story about how, in his SeamlessWeb days, he spent a day at a customer just watching their day--how they got hounded by the yellow pages guy, the napkin guy, the vending machine salespeople, sold to minute after minute while they ran around just trying to keep their business afloat. The answer: it wasn't.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

There may be little swings one way or another when markets are stronger or weaker, but for the most part, our valuation band is pretty tight (controlling for company characteristics like product maturity, quality of team, etc). Syndicate diversification. So for the most part, we try not to be too dogmatic about syndicate partners.

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