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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. 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.

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Zappos has found great success by keeping social media responsibilities horizontal and flexible. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. Its social media and editorial advertising strategy clearly put the product first.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB. Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). •

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Third: cost.

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Lighting the match – going viral

Berkonomics

Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) Second: channels. It doesn’t happen by accident. Email readers, continue here.]

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Over time if you produce compelling content you can package it up and repurpose it to distribute through other channels.