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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. Buddy Media can build an application and drive 1 million users in just a few months.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. This is a mistake.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

And don’t get me started on how great of a job Netflix does in creating high switching costs (or “community stickiness”) with all of its great ratings and social networking features. Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. What is the lesson learned here? 18, 2006, Dec.