Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 29, 2019

We at Version One are becoming increasingly convinced that stronger local communities can help solve many of the problems we are currently facing. Second, they need a community leader who will take the initiative to find a solution. Several tools already exist to help local communities become stronger. Is our neighbourhood safe?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Our current work with NAAAP focuses on developing a platform that encourages the growth of Asian-American thought leadership and to curate that, in order to create pathways and provide value to companies. Through the courses and support facilitated there has been an overall increase in engagement by 25%.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms. join the Trust waitlist here.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. A news curation dashboard for teams and organizations. We change that. Completely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web. This increases conversions of items shown to you. Conversely allow your mobile products to shine on the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them. In the simplest form curation is the selection of similar products in terms of function, quality, design aesthetic and perhaps brand. Get Physical!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

In Dragon’s analysis of social media platforms, nine significant patterns can be discerned: identity, relationships, conversations, groups, gaming, presence, curation, reputation and gifting. Communities : Formed around “passion points”, communities can exist independently or be created by the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. This is June of 2017 when we’re having this conversation.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at how the social media landscape has evolved, and what you can do to grow your presence and create a community of loyal fans. Microsoft Surface curates content by sharing its users’ art and testimonials and responding to their posts. Create and curate content that engages your audience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one seems to know quite how to use it to generate sales conversations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In this conversation, you're going to get to hear from someone who's really doing it. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. I am Eric Ries.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2014

Community is the future for funding promising technological developments that people want and that larger, inflexible corporations are unwilling to build. Considering the aforementioned shortcoming of a big loyal community, we knew we would rely more on our personal networks and marketing if we wanted to reach our goal.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

TL;DR: We’re launching a newsletter highlighting the best content from the NYC tech community. As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial community, but also contributors to it. Subscribe to Gotham Voices.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2024

These passionate conversations authentically excite, sparking fruitful professional connections Thanks to Lukas Berezowiec, No Triangle Studio ! #4- Strategies include – Building a robust LinkedIn profile and focusing on creating a curated LinkedIn community. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2018

Your online marketing campaign will not be successful if it comes in fits and starts—as one of our guest bloggers noted here , being a consistent presence online and in front of customers is a key component of building trust and driving conversions. Number of conversions? Have a Gameplan. Number of sales? Percentage of revenue growth?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Especially when first starting out, providing curated and personalized service is one of the best, and possibly the only way, to compete against larger companies. One benefit of having a website is the ability to connect reviews, social channels, digital ads any other online community directly to your site.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

When I was in college, at Fordham''s scenic Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, I deeply rooted into my community. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. Passing on that experience has been at the core of what I do in the NYC tech community for the better part of the last decade.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 21, 2018

We were skilfully and admirably led by Peta Ellis who was awarded the 2017 National Techboard Community Prize whilst we were in London. Community is important, and I believe you can always achieve more with; support, team and people who help you believe in yourself. If I did it over again, my full focus would be on the Mission.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. And so I can see many more cycles through the loop of how software evolves, how innovation disperses in a community, and so on." Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

These four areas have been in conversations – and the news – recently and will continue to be hot topics in the coming months. Both have broad applications, one of which is intelligent and curated content. Whatever tools we use, it’s important to manage the content we curate. Privacy and Data Protection. Voice Controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Search engines and people love blogs these days. All highlight you. You are the company you keep.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 8, 2017

Just had a few conversations with startups around how early to hire for marketing. Sounds a lot like "community," doesn't it? Communities should be built around values, not around products, so you don't need to wait until you have a product to launch a community. So, when are you supposed to start marketing?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

by Annie Tsai, author of ” The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ Are your customers “connected consumers”? In a global marketplace that’s more connected and competitive by the day, customers aren’t limited to only one or two methods of communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Use their proven understanding of what works and what doesn’t when curating or creating content for that specific platform. Other platforms where you’re likely to find your target audience – Think Twitter, Snapchat, and common interest communities across the web. Start a conversation! Email them.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. Word of mouth advertising has a higher conversion rate than your own advertising, because a third party doesn’t seem to profit from selling the product or service to you. Therefore, this method seems more trustworthy and convincing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Optimize and repeat.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Like GA, Birchbox , a subscription-based makeup company, focuses on engaging community members through inspiration, tips, tricks and trends, adding tremendous value to the community by enlisting experts and thought leaders to use their products in new and innovative ways. Curate content from various sources.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2012

By sourcing and curating the most affordable yet still feature-rich online solutions targeted at small- to medium-sized businesses, SingTel myBusiness puts together a suite of web technology offerings – from customer service management to online document storage and sharing – to meet a variety of business needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I love to watch networks evolve, see how crowds gather and communicate and curate and share. On the good side we had a lot more public “conversations” on Twitter, making it feel like a chat room. Twitter was “full fidelity” and Facebook was “curated” by an algo controlled by the company. Half Lives. Social Media.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Use their proven understanding of what works and what doesn’t when curating or creating content for that specific platform. Other platforms where you’re likely to find your target audience – Think Twitter, Snapchat, and common interest communities across the web. Start a conversation! Email them.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Train the Trainers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Are you new to the Austin Startup Community? Thinking about moving here? Trying to figure out how to plug in?

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