Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. 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.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I haven’t been to the desert in Australia, but it’s about the equivalent of that. I have a house in Brisbane, Australia, and I own my car, etc. I’ll show you a picture in a moment, so it’s an Australia-wide website devoted to this card game. I don’t know if you’ve been there before. This is me at Niagara Falls.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

In it, he mentions the core dilemma that all freemium companies face: the key is to create the right mix of features to segment out the people who are willing to pay, but without alienating the users who make up your free audience. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Facebook has allowed me to find an audience to my creativity. Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! well, millions actually) Basically, it is Facebook that turned me into an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. I saw a post from Upworthy about a video showing a dance troop in Australia for large-sized people. Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is. It’s built perfectly for viral distribution and thus produces pillar effects almost effortlessly. Here in Australia the only two news sites I frequent are News.com.au

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2014

This, along with the growing popularity of image and video-sharing social networks among users, presents a ripe opportunity for marketing in a way that entices multiple senses of your target audience. Something as simple as a note scribbled on a note pad gives off that old school feel some of your audiences respond to more eagerly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread.

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