Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. IconFinder.com : Icon Search Engine What? As Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs, we constantly are building web properties or creating content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Read everything you can about viral marketing. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. 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. What’s the honest trajectory?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

If you choose not to hire a professional web developer for your site design, consider some of the business websites that you have visited as a customer. Building a professional website, user-friendly site is a somewhat more complicated undertaking, but is absolutely crucial for any business wishing to operate in the digital world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 28, 2023

The promise of Medium was that, at least in theory, if you weren’t a frequent poster, you’d be joining a collective of great writers and your thoughts would have a much better shot of being “discovered” (going viral). Once again, however, it didn’t prove to be a great discoverability engine.

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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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Content that works should be relentlessly repurposed, from web site to social media, events, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. The reviews shown on your Places listing come from multiple sources across the web including big “local&# sites like InsiderPages , Citysearch , Yelp as well as niche sites like Zagat and TripAdvisor and tons more.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Online marketing generates billions of dollars in revenue, and even local mom-and-pop businesses feel the pressure to build a solid web presence or risk losing local customers who search online for goods and services. Simple phone videos can sometimes go viral when they hit a nerve with the public.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

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. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Launch a viral competition. A viral competition is a competition where you enter with an email address, and then get extra entries for every person who signs up from your referral. For this viral competition we generated 2,987 emails for a total cost of $6,661.11 Here are some of the best approaches being used today… 1.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Yet I am amazed to see from a recent survey that nearly half of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 51 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Search engines and people love blogs these days. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Win with engaging contests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

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 recommends today: Search-engine marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

Start a video podcast – video podcasts are increasingly popular among modern businesses and can greatly help achieve viral popularity across social media platforms and search engines on the web. Conclusion.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going. Growth hacking” or the mentality of “try every viral trick, every channel as quickly as possible in order to get ahead in the land grab” is a hot topic. Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

The path to our involvement with the company dates back to last December, actually, when I attended a Gilt Groupe “Expert Talk” run by Josh Knowles, formally their VP of Engineering. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. He says that intentional Web 2.0 Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. How Do I Start? Is It Sticky?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet web site up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Search engines and people love blogs these days. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Win with engaging contests.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.

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SVPG

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although their engineered virality was brilliant, it misses that people refer clients, parents and friends to Dropbox regardless of whether or not they benefit from it. When Friendster, the online service that originated social networking, had its initial exponential growth, its founding engineer did all its PR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Search engines and people love blogs these days. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Win with engaging contests.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Who knows, you might even go viral. There doesn’t exist a scientific formula for going viral. A couple of things you need to know: First, YouTube is the second largest search engine. So, by increasing your business’s web presence on YouTube, you would, at the same time, increasing your chances of ranking higher on Google.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. Best of all?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2013

Viral reach (views) consists of posts viewed as a result of a friend’s actions (sharing, liking, commenting). It’s the “viral” metric, touching on one of your primary motivations for creating a Facebook Page- connecting with the friends of your existing fans for free! 1: Fan Reach. Here’s the scoop-. fans and non-fans alike).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

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