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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

An MVP tree has three main components—customer archetypes, jobs to be done, and execution—and we’ll walk you through them step by step with a case study of Roku, a former portfolio company we’ve been fortunate to see execute from a $20 million first VC round to what is now a $50 billion public company. (To It has a growth engine.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

The path of least resistance would have been to build a DMCA Takedown Engine but instead the talented team at YouTube solved an enormous challenge in a much more productive manner. Participants (registered YouTube users) would start with a slug of virtual currency with which to start their video portfolio and you’d go from there.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

" Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. William Smith -- Overview of Become.com [link] Become.com is a comparison search engine designed to help consumers doing product research on the web. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. anecdotes. (13).

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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. Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. David Skok Great feedback and suggestions. All rights reserved.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2 Be prepared : When I received my engineering degree, I decided to start in management consulting and began preparing for my interviews. Ask an entrepreneur from the VC portfolio to introduce you or find an industry expert connected to the VC to refer you. Gates made his talk unforgettable and it went viral.

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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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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. In addition to cost quotes, also ask for time quotes so you can get a feel for how long the project should take to implement. We are where you are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. 40 inspiring portfolio pages | Design Reviver – crowdspring.co/1btPnx2. 1btE4oF. .

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

For company with complex UI or usability issue, you might also want to add a small incentive to reward the sales of training module as this will impact churn, but this should be short term fix as your engineering team works hard to improve the product. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. at 11:17 AM.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

If a bank’s annual retreat video goes viral — the one where its CEO reveals a lack of karaoke talent — then the video is popular even if the CEO is not. I am new to the industry and decided my original portfolio will be mostly made up of “responsive sites” and older sites coverted to this article’s theme.

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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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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market. Some products have what look like great viral loops, but aren’t very successful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. SA : I think we've seen a handful of companies now tell their engineers that if you want to take paid time off to go work on a software project related to COVID. SA : I don't remember the very first company. Of course, they can work on antibodies.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

It could also include your blog, your recommendation engines, your customer forums, and all kinds of other digital existences that you own outright. The best websites in the world have a portfolio of outcomes (in case your customers are not ready to jump into bed with you right away!). [Bonus reading: Rent or Own? You own the domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. The applications for uploading and sharing the photos are obviously more viral and visually compelling. And they still do. And the devices for capturing images are getting easier & more powerful.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase. Weefolio – A free online portfolio creator. Join the 2.3

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

Raise your hand if you've heard this: "How can we make our video viral?" And you know the moment those words are uttered you are dealing with a video/effort that is most definitely never going to become "viral." Video Views <-> Subscribers. " Too often, right? " Sad, but true.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

a new entrant trying to gain awareness in the marketplace investing in various mktg programs and sales to get the lead-gen engine flywheel started)? Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Am curious of your thoughts on how the CAC ratio is influenced based on stage/maturity of company (ie. Really insightful.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Portfolio. (3). Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. anecdotes. (13).

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

I saw our hardware portfolio companies struggling with their supply chains; they were overly reliant on expensive air freight because the ocean freight market was so opaque. At the same time, I believe that the engineers and creators of these products are fundamentally good people. This was not what they built for.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. To be comfortable with the product, people need to talk to someone. Basic sales principle. But this can be done in different ways. anecdotes. (13).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

51:36) Scientific background on niclosamide, what we know about how it works to stop viral replication. (52:48) in chemical engineering. (39:06) Differences between potential drug treatments that haven't panned out and niclosamide. (40:35) 40:35) The importance of well-controlled clinical data in trials before recommending usage. (43:26)

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

When I search for "avinash" on Google I might rank #1 in the search results because I'm logged into my Google account, the engine has my search history, my computer IP address, it also has searches by others in my vicinity, local stories right now, and so many other signals. So check your keyword ranking if it pleases you.

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