Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For Spotify’s core business, which charges consumer subscriptions for the ability to have unlimited mobile access to an enormous music library, music as the audio source converts high engagement minutes into recurring revenue via subscriptions. market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? Remember Stitcher?

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Acquisition Media Audio Technical Review 134

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

In recent years, eCommerce companies have begun to increase revenue by selling products directly via social media networks. 20- Streamlining omnichannel strategy Photo Credit: Aktug Dogan One growing trend in E-commerce is mobile commerce. Thanks to Daniel Todd, Influence Mobile ! #24- Thanks to Rajan Ad, DbdPost ! #25-

Artificial Inteligence 123

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 123

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boston University’s business incubator has produced numerous success stories, including HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals with two drugs in Stage 2 clinical development to treat blood disorders and viral-related cancers, as well as Modular Genetics, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable gene engineering. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Partner 240

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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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. This type of freemium is quite popular with computer games as well as mobile apps we come across daily. Free with in-app purchase.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. Resources on virality/referral: Referral Marketing Master Course.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Though search marketing, display advertising, social media, and mobile remain the mainstays of a digital advertising footprint, each has its role in supporting a particular business objective. When integrated properly, they maximize how we attract consumers, and turn visits into revenue.

Channel 165

Channel PPC Marketing SEO 165

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin !

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

You've deployed five, six or 15 web analytics tools on your website/mobile app. A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., or Google Display Network. Number of downloads of our latest mobile app from Facebook visitors.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? That's my old keyboard (in the post image)! Saitek Executive. Is this done in the gaming industry? Swamykant I am the verge of starting a new company.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. Show your emotional side to increase virality. Milkman in an article entitled, "What Makes Online Content Viral?"

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

mobile purchasers). Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. Not just the revenue a coupon brings, but which messaging and discounts works, where it should be placed, whom to target, which products to include, etc. By traffic source.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Their firm wreaked havoc on the music (iPod), mobile phone (iPhone), and retailing industries (branded company stores). Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9-

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise". The big trend in technology today is the growth of mobile.

Seed Stage 110

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. The added benefit is that Pins are 100x more “viral” than tweets , so you continue to gain traffic months after someone pins your content. . Pinterest, for most, does not.

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Marketing Viral Campaign Search 114

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. itunes.apple.com.

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Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is native advertising in real life, on a real website, acting as a key player in the race for the strongest, viral, engaging content. Twitter did the same thing with mobile-advertising exchange, MoPub , in 2013. Native to what? BuzzFeed ’s popular listicles are often sponsored content.

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Advertising San Francisco New York Viral 139

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. About Me. Read More ».

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Versus something like LinkedIn, which is focused on getting people to invite their colleagues and people that they’re meeting through professional networking. Then what ends up happening is you get this density, you get all these network effects, you get increased engagement, etc. I’ll give a quick example: Lunchclub.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba. 78% of People Say They’ll Post Messages to Their Social Network About Products & Services They Like.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

LittleCast lets any videographer sell video on social networks. The videographer sets the price and LittleCast does the rest: the solution publishes the video, of any length up to 3 hours, in standard definition or high definition, to social networks, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Try it, you’ll like it!

Video 35

Video Social Media Media Social Network 35

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue—whatever business you are in. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba. 78% of people say they’ll post messages to their social network about products and services they like.

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. itunes.apple.com.

Audio 60

Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The actual year of mobile was 10 years ago (release of the iPhone) and we still have horrid mobile experiences out there. 88% check email actively on smart phones, needs to be mobile optimized. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Network effects: Uber effect. branded header and tagline.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model. It processes nearly $1 trillion in payments every year and has a market capitalization of $240 billion, $19 billion in annual revenue, $3 billion in annual profits, and 23,000 employees. PIVOT #1: CASH ON MOBILE.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. You really want to see the whole system.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 However, they should be mindful as the brand and revenues grow, free optimization tools can have a negative impact on Total Cost of Ownership. WordPress Celebrates 1 Million Mobile. 6 Why Google Is Suing the U.S.

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Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73