reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Competitors: Skype.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. Thanks for the insight!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Viral aspect of the campaign: The more sharing, the more points, and the greater the chances of winning in both the weekly and main prize (luxury all-inclusive weekend in Vihula Manor) draws. What was the most surprising was the fact that most participants came from viral growth (shared links, which where tracked). 6600+ new fans.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. How has the viral coefficient been for you? Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. The viral adoption went to 15-20 per share action.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2011

I started focusing on design as an actual professional service around 2004-2005, after a lot of practice and study. It’s all connected, so if my work inspires the client and staff in their mission and goals, that’s just an awesome, viral experience to be part of. If you weren’t designing, what would you be doing?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. What is your viral coefficient? viral video. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Focus on traction.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself. Obviously when I tweet a piece of content, it gets re-tweeted virally, and that brings new readers to my blog.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In 2004, Jakob Nielsen wrote about a study they conducted on teenagers’ web usage. I guess if I had one complaint, it would be that I’m skeptical of the ability to create viral blog posts “without ever having to ‘write’ a single line of text.” Are You Missing (Relevant) Information? Otherwise, people leave.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter. So while DALL-E may seem like a novelty or niche product for technophiles at this stage in the game, ignoring it now is like ignoring blogging in the late 1990s, or social media circa 2004, or mobile in 2007.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. Some startups are destined for failure.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

51:36) Scientific background on niclosamide, what we know about how it works to stop viral replication. (52:48) (39:06) Differences between potential drug treatments that haven't panned out and niclosamide. (40:35) 40:35) The importance of well-controlled clinical data in trials before recommending usage. (43:26)

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. The way I see it, you have two options: (1) keep digging, this goes viral, and your company is a joke; (2) apologize and/or shut up, and your company keeps bumbling along as it has been. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm. March 27, 2011 at 9:56 pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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