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Twitter Link Roundup #197 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs and How to Design Your Own Master Routine – crowdspring.co/18q9ZDp. The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs and How to Design Your Own Master Routine – crowdspring.co/18q9ZDp. ” crowdspring.co/18mR5Nr.

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. Its actual definition is “being one of a kind; unlike anything else.” The irony hurts.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9- Binxy Baby kind of just ended up being the name that checked all my boxes and had an available URL— a definite must-have for an online business. But for entrepreneurs, there are practical implications to naming their business. Photo Credit: Lisa Pinnell.

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

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Started on Jan.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Engagement loops: beyond viral

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Who the hell is this guy? Thoughts on being a career VC

This is going to be BIG.

Any success as an entrepreneur? He hasn't founded or built either a successful, let alone innovative company, and he hasn't raised $ to invest in those entrepreneurs. "Charlie is a nice guy, but his company failed.". what has this guy done? How about as a VC? Just tired of people with no track record getting respect.". "He