Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media. Virtually anyone can be an influencer if they have the right qualities and an audience that follows them. How can influencer marketing benefit your business?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In a statement, co-founder and CEO Zeev Farbman said that “Through all of our diverse creativity apps, we are planning to continue to pioneer industry-first technology and provide all users with the tools and capabilities they need to express themselves and achieve their creative goals.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. In the U.S., we waste over 50 percent of our produce.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Discussion Group Hub - questions/topics are raised via the discussion group and can go out into the blog world to get a more diverse audience - which is now happening with this group. as an example.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media. Virtually anyone can be an influencer if they have the right qualities and an audience that follows them. How can influencer marketing benefit your business?

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 48

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Find free office space at Loosecubes. Thats real money."

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. It offers a freemium of their social network to everyone, has a premium plan as well as a free trial of this plan, plus it also monetizes on the ads.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2012

Effective and innovative pitches take time to develop; it is vital to try various ideas, test them out on different audiences and listen to the feedback. They need to focus on their unique selling point and flaunt it. Make sure you get some inspiration for outstanding video pitches. Finally, Apply!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

The founders of local startup company PayWhere believes there’s an opportunity in this gap, and that’s why they’re introducing TackThis. “Social commerce is rapidly becoming the preferred way to do business online,” says Dickson Gregory, CEO and co-founder PayWhere.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. TV will enter the era of “participation” which is a much more important trend than “social video” even if it seems less sexy or less fundable. 200 million views.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. Their benefits were clear – being read by a whole new audience, promoting themselves through the article and perhaps even earning a couple of bucks…. 25 percent – Links from social networks and content sharing platforms.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

billion monthly active users, there’s a sizable audience to grow your business, whatever your target demographic. For example, after initially promoting her range of scrunchies on Instagram, Enchanted Scrunch founder Dasha Derkach started posting on TikTok. The question to ask yourself is: What does my audience find entertaining?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Otherwise it's a great idea. You've done an excellent job refining the process and message.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. Sold to Yahoo!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. View More » Social Good Google Gives $250,000 to Tech Educati. 5 Creative Social Good Campaigns for. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N. Let us know in the comments your experiences with any of these options for IT project staffing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Jeremy Goldman is the founder of Firebrand Group and the author of the book GoingSocial. Part of my job as a digital and social media strategist is following expert predictions, in order to better help my clients at Firebrand Group innovate. Social fatigue. Handwritten notes, phone calls, handshakes.

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Media Social Media Cofounder Caching 154

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It took a long time for me to be able to talk about this, but here are 3 things that I did wrong: 1) I didn’t build an audience. . As the “business” co-founder, it was my job to get an audience for our product. Building the right audience is also important. I thought that too.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Founders Brian Lee and Mike Jones head this new startup and hope to answer a question they frequently get asked by celebrities and business: “Why do we invest time and money into building social audiences that we ultimately can’t leverage for sales?” These results, combined with research by Booz & Co.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

LinkedIn is the oldest social network. She is the co-founder of Vengreso , a leading digital sales transformation company. While she speaks specifically to LinkedIn today, the principles behind her advice can be applied across all other social networks. Why is LinkedIn Important? Of course not! Use emojis.

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Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

It is not just about jotting down a few lines on how to use something or what it does but building strong relationships with your growing audience. Storytelling as a Content Marketing technique that was introduced in 2012 by the co-founder of Contently, Shane Snow. Our industry fondly calls them ‘buzzwords’. Storytelling.

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Viral Marketing Social Media SEO 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Shy Rosenweig is the co-founder and COO of Meetey , bringing social networking to your neighborhood. Be your audience. I wanted to say “know your audience” but it’s really more than that. You have to know them at a level where you can create a perfect picture of who your audience is. Forget ego.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2012

They connect with people whose content they’re interested in: family and friends, co-workers, fellow hobbyists, groups with shared interests or causes. If you have serious goals, however, such as building an audience for marketing purposes, you need to do all of that and more.

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Social Media Media Public Relations Cofounder 178

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media , a Web design and development agency based in NYC, as well as the co-founder of IHadCancer.com , one of the first social-networking sites for cancer survivors, fighters and supporters.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). I have seen Ian Rogers speak before and when he does he usually has the audience on the edge of their seats.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Your search strategy is probably down pat or at least halfway there, but if you need another layer of SEO optimization, choose a gTLD like.data,search or.network as a social networking site. Offering a.support domain can also direct the right audience to the department they need. If you’re in healthcare.

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Naming SEO Analytics Cofounder 138

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It took a long time for me to be able to talk about this, but here are 3 things that I did wrong: 1) I didn’t build an audience. . As the “business” co-founder, it was my job to get an audience for our product. Building the right audience is also important. I thought that too.

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Cofounder Startup Audience Social Network 48

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. It’s about being there.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1). ▼ 2010. (7).

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience. The recording of this roundtable can be found here.

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Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Jelly is basically a cherry-picked combination of features which already exist within social media tools and networks like Quora, Pinterest and Instagram, but Jelly has been has been created by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone which explains the hype around its launch. . How it works. 5 brand benefits of using Jelly.

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Social Media Community Media Cofounder 125

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Offering social login itself won’t automatically increase conversion rates – you need to provide the products and services your target audience want too – but it does make it easier for the growing number of social login fans to come back to your site.

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