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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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There is nothing viral! That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. Set design. So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Post-Production.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. Series A round.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

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Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. Many people are visual thinkers.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.