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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. What is our viral spread coefficient? These are exciting and fun experiences for everyone involved.

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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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Network effects on social platforms: why the quality of user matters

Version One Ventures

In the post, we talked about the difference between direct and indirect network effects, and how they may or may not relate to virality. Since then, we have been further developing our investment thesis on social platforms and want to add more nuance to the discussion.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

The greatest challenge of our “social age” isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base. Neither is it to achieve the greatest reach or “virality” in one’s digital campaign. T = Tools, the myriad platforms and software needed. P = People and your relationships with them.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. We run into this kind of software services every day—Google, Youtube, Instagram, and so on. Duolingo lingot store. Free with ads.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? Google purchaed travel industry software company ITA Software for $700 million in July 2010. ITA Software. ITA Software. Salesman DIED!’.