YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2016

This means you’re going to need to allocate resources towards scoping a marketing plan, including ad campaigns, media buys, signage, and anything else you might need to get the word out about your SMB. It should go without saying, but a business (especially one that isn’t a huge corporate entity) needs marketing in order to be known.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Apps and contests and campaigns to get more Likes are all fine, but the real payoff is at the wall. Keep the Wall interesting by mixing content Network It’s kind of ironic how little traditional networking goes on inside many social networks. Particularly true of mobile users.)

Small Business 78

Small Business Social Media Networking Engineer 78

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Your brand lives in everyday interactions with your customers, the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. In 2008, Nokia was the world’s ninth most valuable brand. How can a small business develop a strong brand on a tiny budget?

Small Business 77

Small Business Social Network Naming Community 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. eXelate eXchange was launched in 2008 and includes some of the world’s leading publishers. calcalist ]. calcalist ].

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

The sooner you understand that the sooner you can plan your campaign. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Create a sustained campaign. All sales campaigns are processes that occur over time. They seem so reachable.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

With investors, next came staff writers and then corporate sponsorship deals, which is like selling banners on your blog, but instead you are cutting $30,000 campaign deals with a car manufacturer, rather than $100 a month for a small banner. You can hear more about the early days of Car Advice in an interview I did with Alborz back in 2008.

Affiliate 110

Affiliate Las Vegas Audio Advertising 110

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. October 6, 2008 9:41 PM Eric said. How did they do it?

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 128

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. How to Launch a Social Ambassador Campaign. Hyundai’s Super Bowl Blog Campaign a Lesson to Marketers. Social Media Lists.

New York City 83

New York City New York Startup Social Media 83

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2020

While the quality of content your company creates and distributes is important, most brands treat content marketing as a one-off campaign instead of an always-on effort. Political campaigns are relentless when it comes to testing their content. Spend time in popular forums or social networks where they spend most of their time.

Customer 92

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. Of course, timing and luck are still a big part of a successful capital campaign, particularly with these market conditions. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14).

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. Optimizely In a quick survey of our startup-minded Twitter followers, Optimizely was far and away the most highly recommended resource for startup and developer A/B testing.

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors. Dont scale.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

An investor in a crowdfunding campaign is likely to lose much less than an investor in Enron did. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7).

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. December 17, 2008 2:04 PM Alex Horovitz said.

Viral 140

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Cotendo raises $17 million in Series D from its current investors: Benchmark Capital , Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital as well as two CVCs: Juniper Networks and Citrix Systems. Founded in 2008, Cotendo increases the speed of large sites and enterprise networks through its encrypted Content Delivery Network (CDN).

United Kingdom 107

United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

Bootstrapping 124

Bootstrapping San Jose Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 124

Brandanew

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Disclaimer: This post is only analyzing a small set of sample emails sent by Hillary’s campaign to readers. Use of social media in political campaigns is no longer new. But the reason Obama’s campaign is discussed here is because he was the first major leader to use it effectively.

Campaign 100

Campaign Email Media Social Media 100

Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

However, the individual above was adamant that we should have a PR campaign to let the entrepreneurial community know that we dont participate or support this practice. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

Angel Investor 35

Angel Investor Due Diligence San Jose Silicon Valley 35

Brandanew

MARCH 11, 2016

Use of social media in political campaigns is no longer new. But the reason Obama’s campaign is discussed here is because he was the first major leader to use it effectively. Firstly, team Obama understood the real meaning of social media. Engagement, engagement, engagement!

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaign Media Viral 100

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. For every campaign period, the operator defines a set of offers (for prepaid recharge, airtime or other services).

Mobile 110

Mobile IP SMS Networking 110

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. We have enough problems without opening the door for YASPFC (Yet Another Software Patent FUD Campaign).

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Social games overflow out of Facebook. While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

If the rest of the country were experiencing the new company growth, hiring challenges, decreasing office vacancies and rising rents that we are in the Bay Area, the economy wouldnt be the top issue in the presidential campaign. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14).

Silicon Valley 28

Silicon Valley San Jose America Venture Capital 28

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

It wasn’t until 1800, when young upstart Aaron Burr chose to break with tradition and openly campaign against favored Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, that the idea of directly attacking an opponent and speaking on your own qualifications became a thing. The most expensive branding and marketing campaigns in the world.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Campaign PR 48