mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So after a lifetime on the social web, and 14 years on Twitter, I have one piece of advice: Never Become The Person Your Twitter Followers Want You To Be. My tweets autodelete because it protects me from getting too enamored with whether or not something went viral because I know regardless it’s gonna disappear. And the cycle repeats.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? You Manage What you Measure. Do you have a customer referral program?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

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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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

This video is a very smart viral marketing initiative from Cardo Systems , a provider of bluetooth headsets and it reached more than 6m eyeballs (this number includes the different versions of the video as well as the videos of people trying the experience to show it is a scam!). Portfolio. (3). Monday, June 23, 2008. Made to Stick!

Software Review 48

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

eCommerce 62

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. My apps range from an SEO keyword tool , an ASP.NET invoicing system , a web application for creating wedding websites , and a few handful of others. My Background. Conclusion.

Acquisition 63

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. Facebook paid $8.5

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

He thinks as far as he offers an ERP on a monthly basis with a web interface, then he's offering cloud computing. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. 1 comment: 3DX. Well.he's just trying to hide the oldness of his vision, through jokes. Post a Comment.

Software Review 48

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

Community 162

Community United States Colorado Social Media 162

Start Up Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

A world first crazy interesting e-commerce opportunity – this has global viral potential built into it. web & iOS). It could be a nice opportunity for a gun designer student to build their portfolio, or it might be something a more experienced person who can knock over in a much shorter timeline for the same fee?

Design 48

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Although you probably think of financial portfolio when I mention diversification, there are other areas where diversification is desirable. In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. What is the viral aspect of the idea? For example, diversification. So how does one find the golden idea?

Ruby 28

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. But this can be expensive to increase.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Later I rebranded my startup blog to Vyteo and announced we were a video marketing provider- Vyteo’s Viral Videos. When freelancing and consulting, I needed to select a domain name for my portfolio. We’ve built a brand around it and are now one of the top web design and digital agencies in New York. Has a nice ring, right?

Naming 105

Naming Entrepreneur Social Media PR 105

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 " 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).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Foo Casts: Podcasts from OReilly & Friends : A 30mn peak into the Web 2.0 Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. More consumer oriented than WSJ - a nice complement. Recent interviews include Jack Ma, Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos. New post every 3-7 days. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). internet. (6).

Software Review 48

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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

Product 436

Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. 1btE4oF. . ” crowdspring.co/18mR5Nr.

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Web Design. While I’m not currently looking for partnerships, I’d be more than happy to offer consulting or web design services for your startup when you’re ready for them. MooTools Plugins. Businesses. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business. Internet Security. Startup Advice. Social Media.

Technical Cofounder 41

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said. Interesting to see VCs looking at this issue. Anonymous said.

Software Review 48

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions.   If anything, I see wireless as just a natural extension of any web-based product or service.  appeared first on BeyondVC.

Mobile 60

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Now, Base Creative is one of Asia’s leading agencies, with a portfolio that includes Walmart, Cisco, and Hermes. If you have fewer posts but of a higher quality, it’s much more likely one of those posts will go viral and reach an exponentially larger group than you would reach if you had focused on quantity,” he says.

Agile 60

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The challenge is that we, and our HiPPOs, bring opinions and feelings and our perceptions of what will go viral to the conversation. Is there something I can add to increase the chances that this will go viral and result in fame and glory? They influence each other and the entire portfolio, yet they stand on their own.

Algorithm 107

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I have a webcam and a headset, and also connected all the various messaging apps into the web browser and the desktop which I highly recommend. A common test would be a viral entry or a viral attachment assay. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process. I want to see more inventors.

Technical Review 68

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2007

I went out to dinner a couple weeks ago with a few key executives at a portfolio company and as we started talking about future product direction, it seemed that we all had different ideas of where the company should go. Seeing some confusion I tried to get us focused back on the basics when I asked the team what our vision was.

Differentiation 60

Differentiation Video Viral Algorithm 60

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. You want Smashing Magazine on a Web-enabled TV ? Web pages don’t have to use 12- or 16-column grids, and websites don’t have to follow strict hierarchies. Your organization (or more likely you and your Web-savvy coworkers) adopts a mobile-first strategy. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques.

Mobile 101

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1).

Software Review 74

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

If you want to win on the web, you have to do both Own and Rent really well. 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!). And all standard metrics in any decent web analytics tool. You pretty much don't have a choice.

Metrics 155

Metrics Marketing Analytics Channel 155

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

You can use tools like Openreel (BBV portfolio co) to remotely operate the other person’s phone and upload HD back to you to take advantage of the HD level camera they paid up for when they got their iPhone in the first place. Maybe it winds up being the 6th one that goes viral for whatever reason. Check these examples out.)

Marketing 116

Marketing Channel Video Viral 116

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

It was the early promise of the web, we have your behavior/data, we can create a unique store/newspaper/everything. Except that you've noticed that after million of dollars and trillions of hours being spent on this, there is almost no personalization on the web. Is there anything more done to death more than reviews on the web?

Design 150

Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 150

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. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

My initial theory was that my value came from being a consumer internet expert with special expertise in virality, since I was one who invented some key viral marketing practices. In the early days of the Web 2.0 To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your portfolio can do for you, ask what you can do for your portfolio!

Startup 36

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

Good mobile and web games can still be built for a budget in the low single digit millions range and below, and in under a year. In 2009, viral growth through invitations and notification were the way that Facebook games could get discovered. Kixeye , a Lightspeed portfolio company, has followed this approach with great success.

IP 113

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

So the opportunity to learn from other entrepreneurs and the companies that we’re seeing in our portfolio companies was really enough for me to take the plunge and jump on board. . I think one of the most exciting things is that we’re seeing a lot of startups that aren’t just building a new web app.

Technical Review 60

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