Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Companies that score highest in this criteria are typically: E-commerce businesses that fulfill regular needs and offer a differentiated experience or SaaS businesses that help businesses or individuals manage core activities. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Each profile should also be consistent with the social network. For example, Mailchimp’s avatars are the same across its social accounts. It’ll also mean that you’re not completely overhauling your social media and risking alienating fans that enjoy your content. However, its tone of voice differs slightly. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Snap’s stock plunged 40% last week after Evan Spigel announced the company will miss revenue targets, which raises questions about other ‘advertising powered’ social networks. Beyond growth momentum and compelling KPIs, this is where investors will search for true strategic differentiation and a path to profitability.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

But as a business grows, managing growth and organizing information becomes increasingly more difficult. But if you want your business to succeed, you must evolve the way you manage your business to match the growth of the business. That’s where a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution can help. Why a CRM?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Differentiate. Find out who funded them – Contact the management teams. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks. Stand out from the crowd. This is a much debated topic.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

In the interconnected digital landscape, a single recommendation from a loyal client can ripple across social networks, reaching a vast audience. According to Prolifiq, relationship mapping is crucial for startups to understand their clients’ networks and connections, enabling targeted outreach and relationship building.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Or are you happy to run just the local restaurant that is differentiator. How do you differentiate yourself? They don't like managing people. John Jantsch (12:39): So I know in the book you talk a lot about managing people. So it really doesn't matter could be a restaurant, but are you going to franchise it?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. Even though there were several shoemakers at the time, Dassler was committed to differentiating his merchandise by asking athletes for their opinions on the options they wished in an exceeding shoe, and their impressions of his prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. That means forget using interns or outsourcing this function.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to “convert” users to paying customers. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This also requires a base critical mass, and real work to differentiate and convert users to paying customers. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Keep the number of tiers small for manageability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. This one takes expert management to work.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

Take for example, the public’s quick acceptance of Facebook, Instagram, Twitted and other social networking portals, leaving early leader MySpace wondering what happened to their comfortable lead and large fan base. How do you spot the buggy whip trap and differentiate it from a simple business cycle slump?

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 14, 2019

All in all, we have been enjoying the process of refining our thesis in areas like: Full stack / managed platforms. In Ring’s case, this could be face/people recognition; with social networks like Fitbit, this could be the individuals that are using it for friendly competition. Digital health and wellness apps. Smart SaaS.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is true but it has always been true, companies as diverse as Southwest Airlines, Avis, Lexus and Johnson & Johnson have been at the forefront of the trend to use great customer service as a competitive differentiator and a way to attract that best employees that the market has to offer. Community Manager Insights – 2011.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Reality is that we're probably connected in some way anyway through various social networks anyway and I'm very quick to figure out all of those connections to ask about you. I don't mind cold intros at all--but it's hard when I can't figure out who you are in the context of my network. Don't try to skirt the process.

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Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

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Revenue Startup Retention Internet 184

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. This one takes expert management to work.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

If you simply update your résumé and (e)mail it off to a hiring manager, you’ll probably be left twiddling your thumbs for a long, long time while other applicants get all the interviews. LinkedIn is the most trusted social network out there, so you should have a name that is cognizant of its professional atmosphere.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You can station your Ecwid outlet on any automated social networking site starting from Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn, Google + which will help you to find new customers for your product(s) or service(s). This newest release allows web designers and entrepreneurs a way to differentiate themselves from the pack.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Ravi Dhar, a marketing professor at the Yale School of Management, notes that although Heinz ketchup does not reliably win in blind taste tests, it has established itself as the gold standard in its category because it is thicker. In the marketing world, Dhar says, “meaningless attributes often lead to meaningful differentiation. “.

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View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

Even if a firm’s members are almost all titled “partner” externally (and not other gradations like Managing Director), some partners are still more equal than others. And if you’re easily able to get an introduction to a particular partner through a close tie in your own network, that’s often just the right approach.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

We are in the midst of great change and many businesses of all shapes and sizes are figuring out how they can implement the right social customer service strategy to meet the ever changing expectations of this increasingly powerful generation. Old school customer service rules haven’t changed.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. At yesterday's private roundtable we also had this discussion, so I thought I would mention it in today's recap.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling. Management schools have awareness, but not enough budget. Fragrochem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Anyone familiar with online publishing and managing ad campaigns should be fairly well accustomed to the technology and processes. They have a distribution network (which is ultimately what you are paying for) which includes real estate on some of the most high-profile media outlets, including CNN and ESPN.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. I agree completely. link] Dejan Strbac.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

Turning employees into advocates can shorten the sales cycle, boost growth, and help your team differentiate from the crowd. . The two-page document has a list of do’s and don’ts, as well as contact information if the advocate has made a mistake and needs to work with the social media team directly for crisis management.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

To begin with, we are going to differentiate five major areas of marketing that encompass all the others. Because in the end … This type of marketing is widely practiced on social networks, especially on Facebook , where the capacity for dissemination and viralization of recommendations is brutal. Interruption Marketing.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

We were quite enamored with their marketplace for skilled global talent, and were amazed at how the tools in their online workplace allowed customers to hire, manage, and pay for work from distributed teams. Instead of becoming a platform differentiator for Apple, Facebook is now aiding and abetting Apple’s only real competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. Thanks to Daniel Steinfeld, On The Block !

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. Enjoying the work and highly-regarded by the team, thing were going well.

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