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10 Top Marketing Content Sources For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Curation, the most efficient content. Widgets and badges.

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10 Content Marketing Examples for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Curation, the most efficient content. Widgets and badges.

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10 Top Content Marketing Tips for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Curation, the most efficient content. Widgets and badges.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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10 Modern Ways To Kickstart Your Business Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Curation, the most efficient content. Widgets and badges.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Some VCs are using Act-On , Ebsta , or Hubspot to support their CRMs. Point Nine Capital uses Contactually for contact management.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.