Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat. With the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015, people got so sick so fast that they were typically bedridden by the time they were contagious.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

The 4 Best Influencer Marketing Studies of 2015 (So Far) | Convince and Convert bit.ly/1JB4W6T. Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching crowdspring.co/1HRwXF7. Two Retail Veterans Take Aim at Amazon’s E-Commerce Reign nytimes.com/2015/05/07/tec…. ea…004 on Illustration Served crowdspring.co/1P4BPMU.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. The difference? Uber and Lyft blitzscaled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/30/2015. Good traction on a limited rollout is great validation of a business model. Focus on collecting customer references. It’s hard to win by doing half the job, especially if that is the easier half.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

She and her team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign, went through the Techstars Boulder 2015 accelerator program, and recently closed a $3 million financing round with The Foundry Group. . That was enough to get our Kickstarter campaign going. By the end of the 45-day campaign, we had 1,200 pre-orders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then in the professional realm, I was hired in the marketing department and I just wanted to market, but I had these crazy ideas that led to campaigns that were unconventional and actually worked for the company. To really brainstorm, well, what if instead of having a marketing campaign on the internet, we had it on the moon?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Gabriel Kuperman, CEO of CuePin, says, “Try testing an idea with a small budget that you can obtain through your own savings, a small bank loan, or even a Kickstarter campaign.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. In 2015, another study found that marketers ranked video as the second most effective type of content. In some cases, you might have an entire marketing campaign to go along with your video. The State of Video in 2016.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

She and her team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign, went through the Techstars Boulder 2015 accelerator program, and recently closed a $3 million financing round with The Foundry Group. . That was enough to get our Kickstarter campaign going. By the end of the 45-day campaign, we had 1,200 pre-orders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

John Lee Dumas: It was in early January of 2015 where I just hit the tipping point where so many of my listeners of EOFire, what I call, whom I lovingly refer to, I should say, as Fire Nation were just asking met this question over and over again for the years leading up to 2015. What is The Freedom Journal?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

Reward campaigns (owned, earned or paid) that deliver the person who converts right away AND the campaigns who deliver the people who convert after a few days. If you are short on ideas for mobile greatness: Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting.]. I want to fix that. Hence Bounce Rate.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

2015 was a great year for Content marketers and brand owners. Because BuzzSumo allows for the easiest way to identify the influencers within the industry that you are targeting with your content, it unlocks Twitter’s essential application for business: viral content exposure.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

In 2015 when we started working on the law to eliminate vaccine opt-outs in California, it became pretty obvious that there was an asymmetry of passion on social channels that was pretty much the opposite of actual public opinion (which is 85% in favor of vaccination requirements for school). And plenty of people have known this for years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Crowdfunding Campaigns Come With a Growing Price Tag | Yahoo Small Business – Advisor buff.ly/1ug2ciE. Not All Viral Videos Are Good Content Marketing – crowdspring.co/12NPqSc. The Must-Attend Marketing Events of 2015 | Event Marketing crowdspring.co/1CkgebS. What You Need To Start A Podcast | Co.Labs – crowdspring.co/13n4dnK.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. Do you even want to go viral?

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Brandanew

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Many marketers often struggle with wanting to get their messages viral, or reach the most number of users. Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) March 10, 2015. And building organic reach through people and influencers will get you into their networks far more quickly than even large ad campaigns which people don’t always trust.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). 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).

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