VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Almost overnight, a huge new industry was created around mobile. Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S. introduced a feature that stops apps from tracking consumers, which led to reduced spend on mobile ads for the time being.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boston University’s business incubator has produced numerous success stories, including HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals with two drugs in Stage 2 clinical development to treat blood disorders and viral-related cancers, as well as Modular Genetics, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable gene engineering. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. A podcast is basically a non-streaming webcast, usually audio only, for those who want the convenience of downloading and listening via iPod or mobile phone while commuting or working out at the gym.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. A podcast is basically a non-streaming webcast, usually audio only, for those who want the convenience of downloading and listening via iPod or mobile phone while commuting or working out at the gym.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. A podcast is basically a non-streaming webcast, usually audio only, for those who want the convenience of downloading and listening via iPod or mobile phone while commuting or working out at the gym.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Supplement text here with video and audio. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. A podcast is basically a non-streaming webcast, usually audio only, for those who want the convenience of downloading and listening via iPod or mobile phone while commuting or working out at the gym.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names based on rhymes (TopShop, T-Mobile HotSpot), repetition ( Bebo , Lala ), and alliteration ( Firefox , BlackBerry ) tend to be memorable. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. But don't take my word for it.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

1 A viral launch page. If you can’t get into LaunchRock, take a look at Launch Effect , a viral ready WordPress theme. #2 TNWs Daily Dose - 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. All Stories. Top Stories. Daily Dose.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In Part 1 of this Markets overview for the live music industry , we covered issues related to live music recording, promotion, and sales and the role of mobile technology. To help encourage the official events, while still giving breathing space to the unofficial events, producers like Southby are arming their audience with mobile apps.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. For viral growth, you want most of your traffic coming from “Browse features,” which consist of YouTube’s home screen, subscriptions, and other browsing features. Don’t overthink it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

Even though the video may contain some of these elements, an explainer video is NOT specifically: A Viral video. This also doesn’t take into account other factors like mobile & tablet visitors are 3x more likely to view a video , or that consumption behaviors for mobile are dramatically different than desktop viewers.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

If you think about it, Messaging apps are the most viral. In absolute numbers, that translates into 243 million new mobile phone users worldwide that will start using mobile messaging apps this year. Facebook is the dominant player in mobile messaging with 1.2 billion people in 2017, an increase of 15.5% year over year.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

If you think about it, Messaging apps are the most viral. Facebook is the dominant player in mobile messaging with 1.2 On Apple, all the messaging can elegantly by done via iMessage (text) and Facetime (audio, voip, video). Skype seems to have fared well in the migration from desktop to mobile. Microsoft bet on Skype.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Most people only know Roku for their TV devices, but Roku initially shipped an audio device for Internet radio stations and a PhotoBridge product to get digital photo libraries to the TV. For software products, the channels are typically through the mobile app stores or directly over the Internet. Sales channels.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

When I launched my beta a few months ago I created a spreadsheet with a bunch of these sites, some general app sites and some mobile app sites and submitted to all of them. Because of the mobile explosion a lot are mobile only so it helps if you have a mobile version if your app (which I do). Startup sites.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

When I launched my beta a few months ago I created a spreadsheet with a bunch of these sites, some general app sites and some mobile app sites and submitted to all of them. Because of the mobile explosion a lot are mobile only so it helps if you have a mobile version if your app (which I do). Startup sites.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 29, 2023

The audio destination for business professionals creative elements goes behind the scenes with today's top creators. In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts. (00:52):

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

Rock joy-inducing mobile experiences. Forget mobile first, it's a mobile only world! Create joy-inducing mobile experiences. Forget mobile first, it's a mobile only world! We spend 24 minutes a day on non-voice use of mobile devices. They have a mobile friendly website. They are not.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. Mobile isn’t growing on a fast rate. And do you think those differences are beneficial to founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. I think it dwarfs all other mobile platforms by an order of magnitude.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. 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.” . Point Nine Capital uses Contactually for contact management.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

Ask your customers to send you videos of their favorite places and some audio for you to string together in a sit back travel show so you can take advantage of the likey post-quarantine spike in trips because people can’t wait to get out of their houses. Maybe it winds up being the 6th one that goes viral for whatever reason.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 ReadyTalk – Online Web meeting and audio conferencing solutions. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

The way content is consumed and created has changed – mobile, itunes, youtube and the convergence of old media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines) as vehicles to distribute new media, or simply replaced by new media, has everyone scrambling to become multi-disciplinary online media producers. Listening to audio. The Infographic.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), A small example of it is Sennheiser and their videos on better audio experience in your video production. and of course our absolute favorite metric, Economic Value (macro plus micro outcomes delivered on your digital presence – mobile, desktop).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. at 7:35 PM.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

It’s connected to your mobile phone and things like that. When you can take something that used to take people two hours or ten hours to do and you can make it a single click and everything just works, that tends to grow virally. Audio transcription provided by Speechpad.com. Josh: My pleasure, Marcus. Thanks very much.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Businesses as in Red Bull and T-Mobile and Johnson & Johnson. On Google (paid search), on Facebook (display ads), on Radio (audio ads), and all other channels you can think of. Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. " matters! Up next, our second delightful metric… 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. Here’s the free download of Tribal Leadership audio book with foreword by @zappos – [link]. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link].

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Say it – Reviews, expert Q&A, audio clips / videos. 25% chocolate for a month, 21% mobile phone for a day, 13% sex for a month. Joel Harvey: Master Mobile – What We’ve Learned from Hundreds of Mobile Tests. Mobile optimization best practices don’t exist. Mobile users convert differently.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

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). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. He thinks the very nature of video is changing. Video is the new HTML.”

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