David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2013

And building a differentiating user experience starts with an outstanding designer or team of designers. This is something Tackk’s co-founder and lead designer Dan Klammer does with most of Tackk’s interface designs…and it really helps him get a sense of how the design fits within the totality of the experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the founder of The Clikk, Russell has witnessed the evolving landscape of newsletters, recognizing them as a powerful intersection of content marketing and direct response promotion. He is a digital marketing consultant, speaker and co-author of Digital Marketing for Dummies. I also look at sort of the virality.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Audiences are defined by demographics, psychographics, co-watch behavior (what other videos and channels they watch), and topical clusters (the subject matter they consume). It also brings clout from related review channels and a known commodity in founder Jeff Rizzo, whose primary channel has nearly a half-million subscribers.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. What I knew that many didn’t was that a combination of curiosity and a viral game mechanic would slowly get to a million people, at which point the network becomes valuable. What’s your differential business strategy? Your differential growth strategy?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). It will ultimately lead to some positive word-of-mouth for Blockbuster, and a new competitive differentiator against Netflix.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. I’m a deeply emotional person.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

So much so, it seems almost impossible that any company could differentiate themselves. Another issue I have come across is securing a co-founder that is both technical and excited about marketing. We live in a society where the sentence: “I’ve got a Groupon for that!” makes sense. Daily deal websites are par for the course.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

He is the CEO and Co-Founder at CoSchedule. Now they’re all there already, so you’ve got to do something that differentiates yourself from the crowd for it to actually work. It’s like, how do you make an ad viral? Transcript. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Garrett Moon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of. How do we differentiate self from non-self?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective. The other “first call” went to Founder Collective. might have been a lot less differentiated. I still do.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you referred a new PayPal user, we’d give you $10 and we’d give the $10 to the person you were bringing in the system, and that would serve the dual purpose of incentivizing virality and proving the utility of our payments system. Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy. You’re giving out money.” Actually, it was quite rational.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

Efficiently communicating your strategy, business model, and competitive differentiation is required for many critical things you will do as a company. If you are post launch, it might involve a viral coefficient discussion or a cohort analysis. Investors are not solely evaluating your company’s story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. In the industry they call this the “viral coefficient.”. million followers).

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors. I don’t think so.

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