Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unveil the secrets of viral marketing! Dive into transformative strategies and insights from successful campaigns to catapult your small business to new heights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. I think you know the punch line… Blogging is the new resume. Blogging is an effective way to illustrate expertise, personality, and most importantly, thought process. Blogging opens doors. We can all benefit from blogging.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

But it isn’t just memes and videos that can go viral. World’s First Viral Bank Failure Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a very important bank to the startup and tech eco system in the USA. As you can imagine, this blog post, raised many eyebrows in Silicon Valley. Because they expect it, they make it so.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2021

11 LinkedIn Posting Tips to Get Viral on LinkedIn. Yeah, you have a post that has the potential to go viral, and then also human editors will come in. Whenever you create content on LinkedIn, never have a link to your blog or website in it. They affect the total reach that you can have with your LinkedIn post.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! It measures how often a blog post is tweeted/retweeted.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. This became a global viral sensation. And I’m calling it now – it will be a global viral sensation. A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to get reviews on blogs.". We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". This is the viral step: Having trialed the tool, the stranger might use it herself, then more people find out about it, and so forth. I know of no companies who have " gone viral " because of buttons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Viral marketing. Crowdsourcing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Underbelly.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Yammer sreenshot “Going viral” is often the holy grail for Internet startups, who hope to quickly scale to hundreds of thousands of users (then hundreds of millions) with relatively low user acquisition costs. When you turn your attention to SaaS products that are narrow in industry and profession, it’s even harder.”

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few essays, articles, blog posts, etc that I’ve enjoyed recently. Winter Break week for my kid more time with her, and when she’s with her friends, more time with New Yorker magazines. What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department [David Segal/New York Times] – Was it organic? Was it spon con? Was it both?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. On the other hand, don’t assume that viral marketing is the only marketing you will need. Everyone knows that word-of-mouth advertising is an effective and important part of any small business.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. iPullRank Blog. You could read about email marketing for days, but here are a few resources to get you started: Email Marketing articles on CXL’s blog. Litmus blog.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

Many people do not pay attention to the quality of the blogs but poorly written blogs don’t do much for brand image. To effectively turn your SEO blogs into leads the content you put out, i.e. your blogs, need to be written nicely too. The use of headings is one of the easiest and fastest ways to write a blog.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Maybe you identified your target audience and conversation through Twitter research, but discover a handful of forums or blogs that attract essential influencers. Regardless of the social networks you identify as worthy of prioritizing, longer-form blogs likely generate much of the content your audience eventually shares.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Starting a blog is a great way to do this. A blog provides a steady flow of content without impacting other parts of the website. A blog provides a steady flow of content without impacting other parts of the website. The best blogs will provide information on the industry to build a larger audience.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

Publish a blog post at the right time and you will get tons of qualified traffic. The big question is when it’s the best time to publish a blog post? Every day, more than 2 million blog posts are being published. The Best Day to Share Blog Posts on Facebook. The Best Time for Going Viral. What day of the week?

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2012

It’s the dream of every business to have a social media campaign that goes viral. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? You can up your odds of having a tweet go viral simply by tweeting more and having more followers. According to a paper she co-authored, emotions are a key factor in the “virality” of tweets.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

The ultimate thing we all seem to want (even if secretly) is to get everyone to pay attention to our blog post, video, social feed, pithy statement of insight and all other forms of digital output. That’s the promise of something going viral. That’s the promise of being shared on the Verge or Buzzfeed or Viral Nova.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 29, 2013

Nothing is as viral. This technique is powerful, so I want to keep it secret (in other words, just for my loyal blog readers). Nothing spreads as fast. And nothing becomes the talk of the town (and the internet) as quickly as a secret. Gossip and whispers existed well before the Internet. Tell a few people (your best customers).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

In the world of marketing, it has been established that that blogging is a great way to keep content unique and fresh on a website. Have you heard of video blogging, also known as Vlogging? Rather than simply “telling” in a blog post, you can start “showing,” as well. 2: A richer web experience.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Michael delivers field-tested guidance on how to create the core elements of great content for your announcement, your webinars, blog posts, Facebook contests, newsletters, Internet TV, and other initiatives. It’s all about content that will bring the masses to your business: Highly relevant. Great content doesn’t happen by accident.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

He’s written five books and thousands of blog posts. Forbes noted him as one of “12 Innovative Founders To Watch And Learn From” He is author of “ The Copywriting Bible: 100+ Viral Outlines to Build Your Brand “ The post 5 Ways To Boost Employee Engagement Through Technology appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 21, 2016

Keep these simple tips in mind when creating content for your blog. They'll not only improve reader loyalty, but they can boost your chances at viral success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. The key social media platforms today include communications (Wordpress blogs, Twitter), collaboration (Evernote, StumbleUpon), and multimedia (YouTube, Flickr).

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2021

Before an unsavory post goes viral on the internet, we encourage you to take a look at our step-by-step plan for creating a nonprofit social media policy. Your board members should be aware that there’s no way to prevent a bad or questionable social media post from going viral even if the content was only up for a short time.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 28, 2023

Almost 20 years ago, sometime after Fred Wilson started writing and just before Brad Feld jumped in, I started “blogging”. I put that in quotes because no one really calls it blogging anymore and there aren’t even that many people still doing it from those days. That’s how Substack was for me—a letdown.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Free to install, it allows the readers of a blog to interact with one another, engage in discussions, as well as share online content such as photos and videos. Facilitating Blog Interaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers. In this age of instant communication through the Internet and social media, people remember personal images more than a product or service name.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 1, 2023

They’re more fully detailed in this previous blog post (“ How I Calmed My Imposter Syndrome with These Two Tricks ”) but in summary: What Would 18 Year Old Hunter Think About Where You Are? Particularly charming was this reminder of how things went ‘viral’ before the Internet. Are You So Good That You’re Fooling All These People?

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