Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

The Future of Search Series is presented by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo , the leading interactive digital and online marketing event. The Future of Search Series is presented by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo , the leading interactive digital and online marketing event. viral video. viral videos.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actionable Analysis Analyzing Customer Data Conversion & ROI ROI Marketing Verifying Business Value. Adding to this pressure, social media conversion rates are low relative to other marketing strategies. Show your emotional side to increase virality. Milkman in an article entitled, "What Makes Online Content Viral?"

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Stay tuned to the payments intelligence conversation through the Litle Blog and Twitter. viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Startup CorkboardMe Takes on Dropbox. Print Story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Zozi , which sells unique experiences and activities, is headquartered in San Francisco’s Financial District and has its own pad. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. OUYA CEO: We’re Confident We Will Deliver. More Popular Galleries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. How is that picture changed before and after your product. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Conversely I have seen many teams loose productivity by having team members slip into a "low energy state" where they just do the minimum necessary, lost in their own little world with little interaction with others, low accountability and perhaps most importantly no clear line between what they are doing and the success of the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

13:28] Technology is really running our lives now, how do you sort of insert play into that conversation? [15:59] In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. 15:59] Give us some examples of how you’ve incorporated play in platforms like Meetings or Teams. [18:39]

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve been building up our editorial team to support and grow those conversations, and now we have more than sixty editors across the globe. HW: What are some examples of stories that “went viral” on LinkedIn above and beyond the mainstream coverage? ie Does LinkedIn have its version of “The Dress?”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Here's my conversation with Tomas Pueyo. Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. He was not a famous author.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Before you can even finish your pitch, people are already making judgments of your company, and bad names can be a real distraction to important conversations. viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. World Videos Featured: Facebook.

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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. I hope this conversation shows everyone out there what is possible when we act boldly in a crisis. Here's my conversation with Curative.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

At eMetrics Summit in San Francisco , Josh Aberant, VP of Growth at SparkPost , went so far as to say that linear funnels are dead… Josh Aberant , SparkPost : “Funnels have been blown to bits. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. Conduct conversion research to answer two questions.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

The “convergence” part means that A and C will eventually yield similar conversion rates (conversion in this case being whether users logged in or not). Meme Machine: ‘Hitler’ Skewers Google’s Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics. viral video. That’s the delta you’re looking for. Top Related Stories.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Passion was certainly a recurring topic of conversation amongst the investors we interviewed.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What is your viral coefficient? When you make contact, send them a link to your AngelList profile early on in the conversation. viral video. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Focus on traction. How many customers have signed up to your service? television.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could be a button color, a bit of web copy, an image — something extremely finite that may (or may not) have a measurable impact on desired actions, be they conversions or a simple click-through. The folks at Performable also recently added a new analytics backend that focuses on conversion goals rather than just testing alone.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Think You Have First World Problems? Social Good. Social Media. social networking. television. video games. Watercooler. About Mashable.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Here is my conversation with Robert Rhinehart. Robert Rhinehart : Hi.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

The You May Also Like has a $50 Converse shoe and a Sperry Top-Sider Angelfish for $63. Most sites don't even do that (or do it badly like Zappos recommending Converse All-Stars with my Just Cavalli dress). We've gotten our conversion rate up. Solving for short-term virality is not a sustainable strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? Notice that cohort and conversion based metrics do not suffer from this problem. When we look at the same conversion percentage for cohort after cohort, we are effectively getting a new, independent, report card for our efforts each period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

For example, does an Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate gain higher conversions than a standard SSL? Does having an expensive Verisign branded SSL and site logo gain higher conversion than the low-cost GoDaddy equivalent? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. To help turn the conversation specifically to non-tech companies—the topic of our webcast this week —we asked Alistair to answer a few questions. Alistair: There are plenty. Join us there.'

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Do it right, and your conversion rates might be as high as 20%. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Do it wrong, and your LTV gets very close to zero.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Meeting up for lunch or drinks isn’t always the best option when it comes to keeping the conversation alive, though — oftentimes, a journalist may only want to meet up when you have a story to pitch. viral video. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : I think a very, very simple, simple shortcut version of this might be something like: I find Yelp because I search for best dumplings in San Francisco, and then a Yelp page comes up. So you put them through a conversion funnel, let’s say, like a signup, and then they get into another lake. I’m Lauren Murrow.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The initial feeling I have is they are great tools and essential since measuring leads and conversions is key to business success BUT…it is the time and energy of doing and learning and monitoring me that makes these feel overwhelming. viral video. Ann, I see the value of the spreadsheets. February 11, 2012 15:31:24. steve jobs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We’ve had over 20,000 people download that free tool that we built, and the key metric there is if somebody has used that free tool, their conversion rate on our paid product is three times higher than those who have not. It was a huge piece of the puzzle for us. That part of it was great.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

26% of the tweets in the overwhelmingly anti-vaccine Twitter conversation were sent by.05% This is not conducive to healthy conversations about ideas, or growing real grassroots activism on either side of the political spectrum. 05% of the participants (literally, 10 people, five of whom didn’t live in California).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

It’s like, how do you make an ad viral? Like, it’s just something that even today, as CoSchedule’s over 60 people, it’s still something that we have a regular conversation about. I just was talking to somebody in San Francisco, but you’re right, I mean, you make a big deal about being the biggest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of our conversation is below. In our conversation, he admits that what he's proposing would be incredibly expensive. Here is my conversation with Hannu Rajaniemi. I grew up in Finland.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

You can listen to my conversation with Robert Schooley on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Now he is on the leading edge of infectious disease research at the University of California, San Diego, and has been a leader in the civic response to the pandemic. Here's my conversation with Dr. Robert Schooley.

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