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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Do you need to provide RSS?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Do you need to provide RSS?

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

Both Sides of the Table

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Add RSS feed. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. 1 comment: Anonymous said.

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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

Doing so will, in turn, help you earn the trust of the public and distinguish your brand as a thought leader while also boosting engagement and customer reach. Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth. PR and media outreach.

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Your Traffic Sources Have a Half-Life

Software By Rob

Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). They’re “new,&# “revolutionary&# and “viral.&# And realize that these viral sources require a large amount of ongoing time and passion that most people cannot maintain in the long run. 1 in 100,000 at least.

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