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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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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. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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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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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Do you have a customer referral program? If so, make sure you can track which leads come from this. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth.

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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They have real stories about what drives user engagement and viral adoption. And before that Bryce Roberts who working alongside Tim O’Reilly (famed publisher and originator of Web 2.0 MySpace may not have been as successful as Facebook in the end but the executives there learned how to deal with user growth at scale.