Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Stakeholder power.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Fourth: measurement.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Carpe Diem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Now the largest network on YouTube according to ComScore. Come on, Mark.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) It doesn’t happen by accident. Not every new game site is a Club Penguin or Minecraft. Second: channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

In fact, by 2021, internet traffic will be comprised of 82% video content. Beyond getting backlinks to your site, other off-page strategies include guest posting and increasing your business listings across the internet in relevant places. Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores. Network Effects.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

You know one only from seeing it on the Internet and the other has been recommended to you by several friends. 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. What does this mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

The point is that I usually have a pretty good feel when a topic is trending or a movement is growing on the Internet. It took them 8 years of work to shoot, edit and distribute the film, but in the past week, it has turned Kony into a familiar name to tens of millions of people around the world. Photo: Marie Jades.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. He thinks the very nature of video is changing. Video is the new HTML.”

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Stakeholder power.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It’s about building relationships and networking, not selling, although that does come as a result. Establishing a presence on the Internet even if you have a physical store, is critical. Never Stop Growing Your Network. Expand your network of contacts and potential clients. Network Your Networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” Online technology company that distributes video. So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. Most will fail.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

The most popular growth hacking techniques include social media and viral marketing. Viral marketing. Viral marketing is a marketing technique that refers to creating a buzz around the brand’s products and services using existing social networks. Internet memes and memetics play a major role in its execution.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. And that goes for my extended team as well – our strong network of partners who complete us. 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. Eventually, I left.

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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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. What does that mean? Not so on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

It’s not uncommon for companies to hire agencies to help claim shares of the lucrative global market available over the Internet. Small business owners can spend a little time on promotion and get the same results as the big companies who outsource their internet marketing without spending fortunes on advertising. Join the Blogosphere.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

The internet became one big opinion section where Google and Facebook made all the money in the distribution, but never helped in the creation or printing. A new post is born into the internet with a click, then algorithms do their work to show the baby content to people that are likely to be interested.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 21, 2013

Bubba is an early stage investor in consumer internet and mobile technology companies for @DFJvc. the network connection type and abstractions like patterns of physical movement. This is a guest post by Bubba Murarka ( @BubbaM ) which originally appeared on his blog. Attracting and growing a user base. Keeping the user base engaged.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

But I think the biggest positive is really just the learning and the network. What I talked about when I joined, I was most excited about, one just growing my network, meeting great VCs, great entrepreneurs every day. It’s the best possible networking opportunity in the world as far as I’m concerned.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. Cracking The Code. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Cheaper and faster is also something that we can expect from the internet, which is set the cover even more obscure corners of the globe. You just need a laptop, the right software and an internet connection. As long as the company plans adequately for the transition, the benefits of being fully distributed are numerous.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics.

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