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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Is there a step-by-step wizard? Refer a friend? Are there achievements and badges?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Is there a step-by-step wizard? Refer a friend? Are there achievements and badges?

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Startup CTO Speaking

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Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. What is our viral spread coefficient? What is our lifetime customer value and how can we drive that up?

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. How did you do that?

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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Startup Metrics

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channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution He also points a fair bit to Eric Ries – The lean startup. Great stuff. I'm sure I'll be coming back to this and pointing people to it.

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