I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog. MORE >>

Yammer sreenshot “Going viral” is often the holy grail for Internet startups, who hope to quickly scale to hundreds of thousands of users (then hundreds of millions) with relatively low user acquisition costs. News Andrew Chen saas Software as a service viral growth virality Yammerappeared first on Version One Ventures. MORE >>

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Startups need to realize that products are the jumping-off point for building relationships with customers. Want control? MORE >>

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Startups need to realize that products are the jumping-off point for building relationships with customers. Want control? MORE >>

Unless you can afford to buy users, you’ll have to grow virally. Below are 9 ways your start-up can grow virally: Get Your Users to Spread the Word. While this isn’t traditionally thought of as a viral growth strategy, it’s very important. Get users to tell others about your app simply by using it. Tumblr.  MORE >>