Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

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. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Its “Community” area allows anyone with a free Buzzfeed account to publish content, and pushes great stories to its front page, where it can receive even more facetime and potentially go viral. Curated Ecommerce Sites. Curated ecommerce sites are a more simple, low-cost way to launch your own startup. Start a Program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

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. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

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. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

So rather than trying to make a sale or advertising product reviews, for example, you should curate content about the endocannabinoid system, the science behind cannabis, and the “lifestyle.” More importantly, they also help you gauge what makes your target audience “tick” through the power of high-bandwidth communication.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

Be authentic and pin in the spirit of the community. This will lead to a more engaged community, which will help you organically grow followers. It can be tedious to sit on the site for hours following or repinning from users with interests related to your company, but it pays off in time by amplifying he virality of every pin you add.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We had around 300 attendees and our room at the Terra Gallery was packed.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Has anybody else used this site yet?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

how many follows you want to gain in a month or quarter) Post consistently (or have curated a plan to) with a detailed content calendar. The culture they foster is entrepreneurial and community-driven—traits that are reflected in their startup and small business target audience. Curate content for each stage of the marketing funnel.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2013

Users craved a “safe” place where they could belong to several communities based on interests and Tumblr provided that. Tumblr simultaneously provided a decentralized and centralized mode of creation and consumption (and sharing, which added to its viral growth). Theoretically, this is a great combination.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Yet the Strand is still strong, adapting with their customers and utilizing social media to connect with their community. It went viral – almost 2,000 RT’s and likes. What that means is we create custom-curated libraries and collections of books, for individuals and corporate accounts. It is a huge hit.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Thanks to Eve Tokens, The Creative Curator. #3 Through our website store and our corporate giving program we’ve been able to connect our product and our mission to customers who care about quality products and most importantly giving back to their local community. It is incredible rewarding. 3 – Realizing a Need. Alan Bourgeois.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. The following Pamper’s “ Love, Sleep, and Play ” campaign included curated UGC videos from real moms of their babies. We belong to a digital community where sharing has become the norm. Establish your brand’s authority in the community through your niche.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before. My weekly newsletter on NYC events, with over 3300 subscribers, covers over a dozen events each week--and that's curated! Online communities provide lots of valuable information as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2019

While it is necessary to curate content concerning context and audience targets, it is vital that brand messages be synchronized, because today’s consumers expect their experience to be consistent across devices and platforms. Standing for something and being an active participant in the community are excellent ways to live your values.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2016

What about someone in your community. Curate Humorous Touching or Inspiring Posts That Reflect Your Brand. The challenge is finding the right content to curate. Sharing just any viral post or video might earn shares and a little bump in traffic, but that doesn’t help you with your messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. To run this experiment, Airbnb created what Lean Startup calls a curated minimum viable product. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. You're choosing only one metric because you want to optimize it.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2020

Become Part of the Community. If you decide to open a physical store or another real-world location, it is paramount that you choose to integrate your business with the community that you are hoping to garner the support of. If you want to spread the word online, you should create a social media account to create viral posts.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2021

I can tell you that brand awareness and community engagement and content distribution are the biggest reasons that people use social media today. Is it to build a community? Building community. Creating viral content on TikTok is much more attainable than it is on a platform like Facebook or Instagram. Driving traffic.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 6, 2015

Increased usage of social media allows business and brands to create value by building a community of loyal followers. A clever Facebook status can also be a great piece of viral content shared by thousands. 3) Brainstorm to curate/create different pieces of content that is relevant to your niche and brand.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2016

As such, leading platforms continue to promote the most viral content dictated by your digital social circle. The updated decisioning engine was met by Instagrammer fury, with a fear that any non-viral posts will now become buried under a slew of popular coffee-shop pictures and furry friends. But many are working to change this.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2020

Example #1 – Curate Relevant and Helpful Information for the Public. Takeaway: Curate information that will help people during this pandemic if you want to stay fresh in the news. Use information about the percentage change in people visiting retail/ recreational locations from Google’s COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. In fact, it’s more of an epoch than a traditional Gregorian year at this point. What will you find here?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. In fact, it’s more of an epoch than a traditional Gregorian year at this point. What will you find here?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

Why People Hate Your Viral Marketing – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. Earned Loyalty – [link]. The Real Reasons Big Brands Don’t Rank – [link]. Smart thoughts on importance of audience size as measure of our reach – [link]. Who Uses Google AdWords? – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. They have a curator. And he has curated many stories. Each does it for building an online community either for personal or professional utility.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest Craze. ← Previous Story Next Story → 5 Travel Brands Inspiring Wanderlust on YouTube Meme Machine: Hitler Skewers Googles Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics. viral video. Follow Mashable Business. Become a fan on Facebook. More Stories in Business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. 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.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Brands that will stand-out in 2016 will leverage the power of the community and create a strong ROI based on measurable data-backed decisions. It is brilliant, not only for helping me to measure the impact of the content that we share, but also to help me curate the most popular, impactful content in our industry.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can also look to your customers for inspiration, and focus on curating content that speaks to your brand image, company culture, community, and the varied aspects of your brand identity that make up your business—not just your actual product or service. For inspiration, look to General Electric: General Electric on Pinterest.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is. It’s built perfectly for viral distribution and thus produces pillar effects almost effortlessly. To create an infographic I suggest first you curate your data.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Curation: Share meaningful content. It’s only when you begin to curate content that is of interest to your followers and promote it, together with your own content, that your social media accounts begin to breathe new life. Secondly, you should try to proactively build a community of goodwill with followers of your brand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community.

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