Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Crowdsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2022

These are the stereotypical left-brain engineers. Engineering creativity, like innovate low-cost solutions, needs to be combined with marketing creativity, like viral social media campaigns, to build a sustainable competitive advantage today. Creativity is the key word here. Keep it simple and focused.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

And if you get viral content that spreads like wildfire, that is a sure-fire way to get an immense boost in sales. Your job is to land a favorable position on the SEO ranking and appear on the top of search engine results to boost your web traffic. Suppose you’re able to develop a strong social media presence successfully.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s lazy thinking (and expensive engineering) to try to build for both at the same time. It has a growth engine. There are two viable growth engines for tech companies: Viral, or “inherently viral” growth: Customers either intentionally or unintentionally recruit new customers by using your product.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 24, 2021

Content marketing has become the bread and butter for quality website destinations and attracting traffic, especially with sensitive search engine algorithms like those being used by Google. However, site content literally produces the fresh material targeted by the latest search engine formulas. Online Content Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free. Sophisticated search engines. How about the next generation search engine, answering the question, “Who is my ultimate soul mate?” Intellectual property is tough.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Pivots can take the form of changes to singular product features, customer segments, platforms, business architecture, growth engines, technology and more. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup. Small batches inherently work better than large ones.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already starting to have a significant impact on search engine optimization (SEO) for agencies. And vertical videos can result in higher SEO (Search Engine Optimization) content, making the videos stand out more in the search results. Thanks to Austin Armstrong, Socialty Pro ! #15-

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. In any case, it’s no fun to be stuck in this stage, struggling to make payroll, and dealing with impatient creditors and unhappy investors. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo In fact, discussions of price in particular was the key to invalidating one business idea and then validating WP Engine , which now (2014) employs 200 people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

They also have immense viral potential on social media. Search engines like Google are more likely to rank your product higher in search results. But there’s no reason to worry, thanks to the wonders of realistic 3D animation. 3D animation is better for a variety of reasons. Believe it or not, the animation video gained over 1.5

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. Virality and Referral. If you sell shoes, would virality work for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Read everything you can about viral marketing. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s not free, so budget appropriately, but not excessively. Start social networking with peers.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Additionally, content is a tool that can be used to make your company go viral. Share Buttons are a wonderful web design and development tool that can be used to make your medical brand go viral. First, content is typically the primary resource that an online reader/viewer will use to develop an impression of your brand. Share Buttons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. It’s the principle underlying “viral marketing.” In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And it is so easy to social engineer, to phish, to put malware on someone’s machine and to gain access to the things that represent their identity. How do you solve the problem that there is no real authentication mechanism when a video or a photo is being shared and propagated and virally explodes on social media?

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Brandanew

MAY 29, 2015

It can be seen as part of the online marketing ecosystem, as in many cases growth hackers are using techniques such as search engine optimization, website analytics, content marketing and A/B testing. Sure-shot way to lose trust and potential customers (even if your terrible response does not become viral). source ).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Even worse is when they insist that they don’t need one, or call no distribution strategy a ‘viral marketing strategy.’”. Product-growth fit.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The product is so good, helpful, and easy to use that it literally almost does its own marketing organically through the product’s viral nature, just as Hotmail and Gmail have done since inception. It scaled like lightning by solving an urgent, painful problem for millions of consumers. What’s the honest trajectory?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Use semiotic analysis (the study of signs and symbols) to reverse engineer effective messages: Determine the feeling you’d like to elicit; Choose words and phrases (as well as colors and symbols) that relate to those feelings; Weave those words into your messaging. Customers can now shop directly from the SERP (search engine results page).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). By creating high-quality, engaging content on your website, you drive sustained traffic over the long term and establish yourself as a reliable player in the market.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our answer was simple– SEO (search engine optimization). The higher the score, the more Google and other search engines identify the information you provide as being useful. All things being equal, search engines will present the pages that best satisfy the intent of a searcher. Challenges of launching a new brand.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Search engine optimization, paid search, social media channels, online stores, and even pop-up spots are examples of practical omnichannel usage. As for Metaverse — businesses should keep an eye on it as it is not clear yet whether this is hype or a trend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

Most small businesses know that they are dependent on their customers, but a recent episode of Kitchen Nightmares that went viral demonstrated that there are a few out there who need to be reminded. Chris Garrett is a freelance writer with many years of experience in small business marketing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. Results of Algorithms.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2018

But I see it differently – I think this is about civility, not virality. If this was Facebook 2012 you might think they were trying to show you other people to connect with and befriend. That is, this feature was another exploration of how to expand the social graph.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. Women such as Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace have been an essential part of Computer Science and Engineering (Gürer, 2). Engineering Still Needs More Women.” Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

But you’re still walking a tightrope with pay-per-click on search engines and paid social media advertising. This article will discuss how to conquer the following unpaid channels to enjoy serious returns and long-term profitability from your cannabis advertising efforts: Search Engine Optimization (SEO). CBD and marijuana industry.

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