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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. I wrote the following update to my original answer to that question: Update: Social networking sites have an additional attribute in that they are communication vehicles as well as UGC sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Training and coaching.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Zappos has found great success by keeping social media responsibilities horizontal and flexible. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. Startup Example: Cloudera. Strategy Adopted: Blogger Outreach. Startup Example: Coin.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] However, podcasts are not songs, of course, and therefore not subject ot the same licensing, restrictions, or scarcity. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio. 3/ Audio As A Feature Of Streaming Services.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB. Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). •

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Social Media.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Hockeyapp – For collecting crash reports from mobile devices and distributing apps for some platforms. Your mileage may vary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But there’s an important paradox facing small businesses and startups – effective content marketing requires the creation of consistent, high quality content AND a strategy for distributing/promoting that content across social networks and the Internet. Strategy And Tactics To Distribute And Promote Your Content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

These components include procedures, software, policies, entities, and hardware to revoke, distribute, and verify the certificate securely. Sites such as Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and other social networks have lots of personal data. These questions will not have answers on your social networks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Social Networks Will Become Marketplaces This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. For the last few years I’ve been promoting the idea that social networks are like outposts, in many respects, best suited to point the way to your hub or main content site. Product for sale on Shoply.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

The podcast or audio distribution format has definitely hit mainstream status. Radio and TV networks look to this form of distribution as the way forward and big time players like NPR have embraced it fully as a way to reach an audience increasingly tuning radio out.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

Buffer’s nimble, distributed team came together on Hangouts on a Saturday afternoon and live-blogged developments as their engineers worked behind the scenes to fix the hack and restore services. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. A banner ad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Customers are always looking for a better user experience, and they don’t want their privacy compromised.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2012

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. discovery distribution location mobile' How do you think about building the next large scale mobile app?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Widespread global availability of free or low-cost web access, easy-to-use social tools, and algorithms by companies like Klout and PeerIndex have also resulted in an “influence revolution” According to Schaefer, the rules of online influence are affected by several factors: 1. Providing compelling content – Content is king.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

With technological advances and globalization on the rise, virtual companies, also known as “remote companies” or “distributed teams,” are becoming more mainstream. Key elements of the framework are online social networks, video chats, support systems, and the delivery of consistent core values. Create a buddy system.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Year of Social Utilities. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Are you ready? *A

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2014

It’s just that content marketing and social network participation are (collectively) more important. By focusing on quality content and by creating your own content distribution channel, you can start naturally attracting quality links instead of artificially creating risky links. Social Networking.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With Vine, you’re building a backend system that stores video and a front-end that is a simple viewer and an easy way to share content out to social networks,” says Thadd Selden, Worry Free’s CTO. There’s also the enormous looming cost of distribution — one that’s hard to measure and even harder to predict.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. They bought distribution and engineering talent. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. But I made it for a reason. No big surprise. Good deal for all.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. LinkedIn – how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. — entrepreneurship entrepreneurs intellect quora social networks startups technology' There is some info about it here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well. Social Media.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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. Over time if you produce compelling content you can package it up and repurpose it to distribute through other channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Are Paid Content Distribution Platforms Cost Effective? Buffer, a popular social media sharing tool, leveraged a guest network to generate millions in revenues. Paid Content Platforms: A Distribution Alternative? The following are some of the most popular distribution platforms on the market. CPC: $0.25–$0.30.

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