YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The trouble with a book titled “ Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps ” is that most people will assume it’s meant for games – or at the very most, application – designers.

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Mobile Technical Review Software Review Web 172

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Develop viral content.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The design DNA of the founding team is obvious the first time you visit the beautiful, super-simple-to-use site. I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer , President of Tackk, about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: how to recruit an A-quality designer for their company.

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Design Venture Capital Startup HTML 114

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH. 7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines. 1dgr5Xm.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Thanks to Jane Harbison, Jane Harbison Design ! #11-

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Web Design: The Power of Crowdsourcing – [link]. How to find great design help at a very affordable price (that u determine) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The formula for going viral (or Twitter failure) - [link]. Design Lessons from Well Designed Album Covers - [link]. Top 45 Google Logo Designs - [link].

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2021

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest give you multiple places to spread the word about the good work your nonprofit is doing in your community. Before an unsavory post goes viral on the internet, we encourage you to take a look at our step-by-step plan for creating a nonprofit social media policy.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Create new online communities of interest, rather than joining existing ones. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. Can you really communicate your life’s accomplishments and skill-set through an 8.5 The way product managers, UX designers, and other “non-technical” roles think , communicates their ability and culture fit. x 11 sheet of paper?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

When you travel, you are constantly on the go, so being connected to your mobile device might be your only digital lens into the world,” says Shaun Modi , designer at Airbnb. By focusing on designing our internal culture, it seamlessly translates to the experience we create, both online and offline. It all starts with culture. “By

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Mobile Silicon Valley Viral Technical Review 136

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

If you choose not to hire a professional web developer for your site design, consider some of the business websites that you have visited as a customer. Consider also some of the sites you’ve visited that were not well designed. Many new business owners fail to realize that they are a marketing asset in themselves.

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Marketing Startup Technical Review Viral 144

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect one’s communities on social media with the corporate wallet. Companies should provide delightful and memorable experiences to customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

An SSL certificate – short for Secure Sockets Layer – designates a safe connection between a user’s server and your website. If your company contributes to the 75% of websites lacking this important safety designation – the time is now to change that. Get Your Website SSL Certified Already! Customers Demand SSL Reassurance.

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Customer Technical Review Security Internet 179

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. Use semiotic analysis to design messaging that resonates. In a study of more than 35,000 landing pages, Unbounce found that effective copy had more than twice the impact of design on conversion rates.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. 1) Twitter.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. All of which are designed to extract more value out of recycling than what is currently being sorted. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. This rapid craze beseeches an explanation. Channel instability. Product-growth fit.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. The BlogFrog concept was born.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Use design thinking to be an innovator in your market. Design thinking sounds like its meant exclusively for creative thinkers, but anyone can take advantage of its straightforward process. Or, as I learned to think of it when I was getting my degree in design: The Process. Design matters. Be an innovator. Check it out!

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Marketing Social Media Cofounder Design 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean later went on to found the community GrowthHackers.com amongst other businesses. We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. Why do I Like the term Growth Hacking? I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM Hockey Stick Channel 384

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Like Slack, Canva launched with two things in its favor: it was different from anything around at the time (a design platform for non-designers), and it had a freemium business model. No short order!

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Listly is a content marketing tool that helps helping bloggers and publishers “ take lists to the next level ” by creating lists that are social, viral and constantly evolving. The domain name choice just made sense for the community-focused company, says Badal. “We Design & Dev Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s Roundups'

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

The reality for startups is that it’s not enough to build, design and ship a great looking app – marketing and distribution are critical to success. Build a community – often overlooked, but building a community around your app can help you build better products and dramatically increase retention.

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Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. This recipe generating process has always been a very determining status, a stumbling block in drug design. Alpha Lee : Right. Alpha Lee : Right.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Mashable made the public announcement, and Giving Tuesday quickly went viral. The question for nonprofits is, “How many people would be willing to designate your nonprofit for their charitable giving on Giving Tuesday?”. New donors from community. Giving Tuesday also has people thinking about planned giving for Giving Tuesday.

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Afghanistan Iraq Social Media Campaign 63

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. million CAD engineers and product designers using GrabCAD. Fast forward to today and there are over 1.5 Onward and upward.'

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Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m Zimride , Ridejoy ), they have not yet seen the explosive growth that the service has observed in Europe with more than 1 Billion miles shared by the community and more than 8m passengers transported ! Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. If you’re creating videos only for your own content, then it might make sense to host it on Vimeo and drive people to a landing page (or product pages), and not try to build a community.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2021

The falling economic costs of production and distribution have been replaced by a new set of taxes — physical, emotional, psychological — as your community expects new content, accessibility to their heroes and open book authenticity. Tia is healthcare designed for women from the start, combining IRL clinics with URL telehealth.

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Viral Algorithm Community Social Media 146

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

Our website is for professionals working on very specific issues, so that created a challenge in getting the campaign to go viral. I reached out to a friend of a friend that’s a designer, to help me create a logo for my company. Related posts: Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Stinglight Photography.

Small Business 77

Small Business Technical Review Cofounder Viral 77

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Create new online communities of interest, rather than joining existing ones. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it.

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Customer Marketing Viral Demand 250

Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2015

With more and more messaging platforms emerging, members within groups and communities are more likely to communicate across multiple platforms (SMS/iMessage, Whatsapp, WeChat, Facebook messenger, etc.), Four reasons: It’s designed for an underserved vertical. Shift Messenger is very much a member-driven community.

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Design SMS Vertical Viral 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Focus on collecting customer references.

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Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Create new online communities of interest, rather than joining existing ones. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it.

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Marketing Viral Demand Channel 260

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Lean startup principles promote creating rapid prototypes of your products and services designed to test your assumptions about the market and then to rely on feedback from customers to enhance those products and services. Build a community, support them, leverage them. So what can they do? image credit: ZunNurainKalid.

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