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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Refer a friend?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Refer a friend?

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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

As I sat in the dark hallway with the sounds of a loud conversation in Portuguese pouring through the door, only one thought was blazing through my head: had we pushed it too far? The year was 2015 and my company, Shareability, had already been behind some of the biggest viral hits of the past few years. Going Viral.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

Use Skype or Google+ Hangouts for team conversations. to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. BTW: You can see the hosting choices of YCombinator startups here. Create a “ viral ” landing page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs. Size the market opportunity.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Again, like shared hosting companies.) 10/mo means people see you as a cheap version of something else, but still expect a phone number. Think: GoDaddy). This is a hard slog.

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. I can measure the "invisible virality" / "spread" by this big huge non-commenting, non-tweeting audience. Invisible Virality. Or for that matter how many tools. People matter. You matter. Cool right?