Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Entry cost is very high. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

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Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 337

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Entry cost is very high. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

Intellectual Property 215

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 215

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Use “coopetition” for cost sharing, economies of scale, and open access to new markets. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source. Plan to spend money on marketing. These days, you have to spend money to make money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Entry cost is very high. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

Intellectual Property 229

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 229

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

Use “coopetition” for cost sharing, economies of scale, and open access to new markets. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source. Plan to spend money on marketing. These days, you have to spend money to make money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. One of the things we find, because we certainly threw out what can we do to make this more viral or to work more in a social way so that we can try to get more people on the system?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Use “coopetition” for cost sharing, economies of scale, and open access to new markets. Once you have established your credibility and value, a strategic partnership may lead to other business relationships or a funding source. Plan to spend money on marketing. These days, you have to spend money to make money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

So please don’t send me any more business plans along these lines, looking for investor funding, with no marketing budget, and promising huge returns. Entry cost is very high. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 124

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, keep iterating until its 1.1

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# There’s potential in the political and speech-related micro-transaction (networked citizen lobbing, news, journalism, etc.) Problem is the practicality, cost and hassle of the microtransaction. BTW, What do business plans look like?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. March 26, 2011 at 8:24 pm.

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