Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Show your visitors some evidence of community involvement and charity efforts. People buy from people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

The social proof and validation received from having numerous tangible backers can also be priceless. Lastly, note that using free crowdfunding sites provides an excellent cost-effective solution compared to seed capital or personal loans with high-interest rates. However, it collects a transaction fee of 4.9%

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Show your visitors some evidence of community involvement and charity efforts. People buy from people.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In order to resolve this issue, we are creating a centralized resource that provides on-demand live streaming, chat and development of content by creating a digital platform allowing communities to engage and ensure a proper DE&I space, therefore transforming and pushing a 20 th century system into the current scenario of the 21 st century.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With free coffee and Internet, workspaces, and built-in community, coworking spaces provide a great place to get things done without feeling the isolation of working at home, or trying to overcome the frenetic nature of working in a coffee shop. Seattleites can enjoy this community-oriented coworking and shared office space.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Where are the young social media users going? TikTok is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

2) The belief that the cost of these tools outweighs the benefits they bring. The problem is more likely to be not spending enough time seriously researching the right tool for the business, and then, if funds really are that tight: a) looking for a close alternative that costs less, or. Change is hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Social networks. These are communities wrapped around a website, like Facebook or Twitter. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Show your visitors some evidence of community involvement and charity efforts. Put yourself on the site.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

What is Social Media Marketing? Social media marketing (SMM) is the use of social networks and social media for marketing an organization’s services or products. It offers businesses a chance to engage with their targeted clients and attract new ones to come and become part of the brand’s community.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. But it does require some new thinking.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The collaborative web arrived after the social web hit a tipping point. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace. The idea of working together in communities to share best practices around creation has inspired companies that get people doing stuff like Makerbot and Windowfarms.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2024

Add on the fact that some people theorize that the need for venture capital dollars will peak, or potentially already has, and then decline because of the ever-decreasing cost of technology infrastructure as well as the increasing capability of AI to replace expensive humans.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

The traditional push marketing approach has given way to a new approach that entails engaging customers through social networking, blogs and video. With rising costs due to inflation, more businesses are laser-focused on revenue than ever before. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Bailey Whissel.

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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. It was a time before the widespread use of social networks, obviously. If we had 15 people with us, it was a lot.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

A marginally desirable 500 square foot space in a major city will cost you at least $1,000 per month (folks in NYC are laughing loudly while reading this). You can’t handle the cost yet, and even if you could, why would you? Network without really trying. This isn’t just about costs and amenities. Keep dreaming.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how technology will possibly affect their business tomorrow and here are the responses: #1- Makes growing a community easier. As someone who is looking to build a worldwide movement, growing a community is very important to me. 8- Reduce our cost. Photo credit: Milena Regos.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Unpakt is the first company in the industry that allows users to compare movers and costs in real-time before booking their move online. 9- Discord.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New York banking community. On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab ‘s Inaugural Investor Day.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 27, 2015

These days, we’re hyper-focused on marketplaces, communities and social platforms. We love these platforms for many reasons, but the primary one is the power of their network effects and how they create a high degree of defensibility for startups. What are network effects? If I’m a user, I gain some benefit if you join.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

evolved around trends that focused on the idea of user collaboration , sharing of user-generated content, and social networking, so too does the concept of collaborative governance. In fact, according to The Data Warehousing Institute, ‘dirty data’ is costing businesses $600B a year. Just as Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Google had huge destination traffic. uh, hello!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Nothing seems impossible anymore. What’s Next in 2012….

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Every startup lawyer is familiar with variations on this theme and can recite cautionary war stories, but the Winklevoss brothers’ dispute with Facebook, made famous in the movie The Social Network , has become the iconic example. Founders now have more options, which is a double-edged sword.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. To offset these costs, you need to earn more repeat purchases from existing customers. That means better margins, more profitability, and cost-efficient scaling. Or you lowered shipping costs in a country and won new business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

billion users, spending 700 billion minutes on the network every month. In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. And yet, I still have organizations or consultants tell me, “my customers aren’t really on social media.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Where are the young social media users going? Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products.

Social Media 238

Social Media Media Viral Audience 238

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

Typically cost around $200 bucks to complete with all steps involved but it can protect you when you have a first to market claim with a brand and a trademark dispute. One of my first ventures was an online social network allowing high school and college students to connect…no, not Facebook. The key is to not give up.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2021

billion images are shared across social networks on a daily basis. These images mean that UGC has become a very effective – and extremely cost-effective – way for brands to promote their products and services in a new and refreshing way. Build Communities. Cost-Effective Campaigning.

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