ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

Instead, think of Pinterest as a way to build an audience or an additional distribution channel for your content. Even industries like finance can gain traction on Pinterest. Since finance is one of the most competitive and expensive niches on Google Ads , it’s a unique—if challenging—opportunity on Pinterest.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. Bridget Reed, Co-founder and VP of Content, The Word Counter Yes, but Look for Restrictions Crowdfunding is an efficient and cost-effective way to raise money to finance the development of a startup. The crowdfunding act itself becomes a marketing strategy.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

What’s the distribution channel? How do we finance the company, etc. For example, at a minimum, a web based startup needs to understand the Customer Lifecycle, Customer Acquisition Cost, Marketing Cost, Viral Coefficient, Customer Lifetime Value, etc. Viral Acquisition Ratio. How do we price and position the product?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Upverter) and the natural viral effects of the social web. The remaining traps to avoid are in the fields of logistics, distribution, financing and fundraising, among others. Kickstarter), communities (e.g. Thingiverse), collaboration (e.g. But building and selling a complete hardware product is still hard.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

A few weeks ago, Manu Kumar wrote an excellent post detailing the current state of the seed financing landscape. For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. Over time, the frenzy around momentum and growth stage financing will calm down. Read it – it’s excellent.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Your data will be ordered and structured into information based on specific niches like engineering and construction, finance, technology, and business. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

For their financial public relations strategies, financial companies need to move beyond traditional news distribution and use audience-engaging content marketing techniques. Furthermore, upholding integrity amid viral trends and clickbait culture requires strong ethical fortitude.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I like to understand for these models how many sales people are quota carrying, what is the distribution of quota attainment, and what is the profile of an ideal sales person Inbound model (e.g., Here are a few typical models and some of the points I would find interesting to highlight: Enterprise sales (e.g.,

San Francisco 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We can all agree that we know a little bit of economics or finance as one of the words that have been cemented in our subconscious is the term “ASSETS” Our cars, landed properties, jewelry, and documents are all assets. Assets in general are things that are beneficial to any establishment, setting, or individual.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. I wear many different hats in my role, from CEO through sales and marketing to finance and HR. Eventually, I left.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

M&A and Finance. Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Finance/Accounting. Distribution.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. Step 5: Get financed. Additional resources to help you finance your business: How to Get Your Business Funded. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 11) Exit .

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

And, if a founder is seeking investor financing , the probability of investor funding is significantly lower and investors become much more pitch-picky. Become a viral success. Partner with a large corporation for distribution and marketing. Have a unique value proposition.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. After debts have been paid, the remaining assets and cash reserves should be distributed to the owners/members in proportion to ownership interest. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

In 2009 I wrote a guest post at Industry Gamers about why social gaming is so attractive to investors , where I talked about the three key elements oin gaming: Development, Distribution and Discovery. But I think the framework of Development, Distribution and Discovery is still a useful lens to view the industry.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content. gOffice – They offer Web Word Wizard, a true online word processor.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. I just saw a friend of mine who's a finance person temporarily pause his job and volunteer to be the CFO or investor, whatever investor relations person for a startup was trying to work on a cure so that the founders could have more time to do the science.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2020

While the quality of content your company creates and distributes is important, most brands treat content marketing as a one-off campaign instead of an always-on effort. Their product isn’t cheap, which might lead you to expect their tone to be stodgy—that traditional finance and corporate speak. No problem.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

I wonder what the distribution looks like? And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), Raise your hand if you've heard this: "How can we make our video viral?" How will our business survive?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

If we create this network of collaborators that solves this problem, that's essentially a distributed biotech Silicon Valley and who knows what innovation that we can't foresee yet would come from that. I think one really incredible experience has been how willing people are to help. Eric Ries : So why isn't it happening?

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Transformify

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As explored in a new infographic by SavvyBeaver Canada and BargainFox the popular viral news website BuzzFeed has a 50% remote workforce. As long as the company plans adequately for the transition, the benefits of being fully distributed are numerous. Mozilla the company behind web browser Firefox is 60% remote.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

– We need distribution mechanisms beyond the SBA (which is overwhelmed). Consider for the smallest businesses using PayPal, Square or others for the distribution of funds (some of this started happening last week, which is good). This initiative was later written into Congressional appropriations.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Global warming, by accentuating drought and melting glaciers, will have a key impact on water resources distribution and will increase the unbalance. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. While the point on water is very clear to me, I dont know if it supersedes the climate issue. Software 2.0: Justin Label.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Disinformation and deepfakes have increasingly become an issue, as evidenced by viral fake content, used as propaganda in the fight for the world’s attention. All of this wouldn’t be possible without advances we’ve already seen in processing power and through the distribution of existing information via trusted “nodes” of data.

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