YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

So even as he worked full-time as an aerospace engineer, he’d work on BlogFrog. Investors scaled back in early-stage investments and used those funds to help current portfolio companies get through the bad economy. The BlogFrog concept was born. He tested it on his wife’s blog, and it became a hit.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

It bears repeating: an early-stage startup must focus on making one customer group excited by a mission-aligned product. It’s lazy thinking (and expensive engineering) to try to build for both at the same time. It has a growth engine. Note well, though: this engine is “economic” because it must fuel itself.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies. It’s very important to explain in detail how this engine is designed and how you can scale while maintaining quality and productivity.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. Especially in the early stages, keeping a relationship with your customers can be paid off exponentially, not only in overall engagement but with extremely valuable word of mouth marketing.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. Rinse and repeat.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

I really enjoyed a recent post I read on First Round Review about vanity metrics, which touches on what I love about my startup vs. others with more funding, more engineers and more mentions on TechCrunch. In 2014, a recruitment platform went viral by emailing a user’s Facebook friends after a sign-up. Vanity metrics aren’t useless.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. It’s easier (but still hard) when you’re running a small, early-stage organization. We had engineering specialists and felt we had this unique technology. You’re giving out money.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’ Jason: Nice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Some marketing techniques that fall under digital marketing include: Search engine marketing (search engine optimization, and pay-per-click digital advertising). Viral marketing. The early stages of a business are critical and difficult. So, most early-stage companies are very cautious about their spending.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9,

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In fact, to achieve your aggressive growth goals in the face of uncertainty and change, you need to follow a new set of rules that fly in the face of what is taught in business schools and are completely counterintuitive to accepted “best practices” of either early stage startups or classic corporate management. Rule #1: Embrace Chaos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Normal depends on what kind of business you're in, and what stage of that business you're at. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. to 3% a month.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You have probably seen a variety of posts from people who have access to Dall-E 2 or some other creative AI engine on social media. PromptBase is a new meta marketplace that lets “prompt engineers” sell text descriptions that reliably produce a certain art style or subject on a specific AI platform, The Verge reports.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – [link]. Google App Engine is ready for primetime says Reddit/Hipmunk co-founder – [link]. 7 Social Media Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Going Viral - [link]. What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill?

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

Once upon a time I was a mechanical engineer, MIT student, and basically went into consulting for about four years at a company called Arthur D. It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. ” So it was a really great problem solving sort of thing back in my mechanical engineering roots.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

He says, “Spending a few thousand on a domain could make a big difference long term, and give you the credibility and advantage over the competition, especially in the very beginning and early stages of the business.”. Producthunt.com is a great resource for viral marketing for the product launch as well as community feedback.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. The applications for uploading and sharing the photos are obviously more viral and visually compelling. I will describe this in a moment. I asked him to present to my partners.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K. You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. 2M in 18 months.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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The Next Web

AUGUST 21, 2013

Bubba is an early stage investor in consumer internet and mobile technology companies for @DFJvc. Reverse engineering leads me to believe that their “magic number” is the number of devices you have installed the Dropbox client on. This is a guest post by Bubba Murarka ( @BubbaM ) which originally appeared on his blog.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. They hope to raise awareness through viral marketing and word of mouth, since participating in professional industry events can be a pretty expensive ordeal when you take into account hotels, flights, tickets, etc.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While there are a huge number of intricacies with search engine optimisation, the basics are to find the right key phrases to target, to include those terms on the page naturally and within the page title and, of absolutely massive importance, to get other sites to link to you. For everyone that helped – thanks very much!

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Software 2.0:

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter. In fact, users already describe the process of creating effective text prompts as “DALL-E whispering” and “DALL-E engineering.”

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral. is hot right now.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3. We’re excited to partner with early stage founders who see the future in the same way, and are working on the technologies that will help bring this vision forward. Tyler Cowen interviews Marc Andreessen on Web3.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. viral video. viral videos. We did a lot of brainstorming and research to come up with the name WebKite.

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