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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Staples and Josh Young, co-authors of “ Break Through the Noise: The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention “ I’d blown it. On the other side of the door was Cristiano Ronaldo, the global soccer superstar and one of the most famous people in the world. Going Viral. And he had just kicked me out.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 14- Polaroid.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Global Warning!

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020

Duct Tape Marketing

Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

But remember that this was 2005?—?and You can see his first viral video series below (it is called Bubala Please and already has 600,000+ views in a few weeks?—? We wanted to make sure when we launched there was enough functionality for the very broad, global community we were trying to attract that it would “take”.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). link] leehower. Congrats! .