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OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Weekend Gaming: "Vanquish" and "Killz.

Angel Investor 84

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? If you change your company objectives or measurements later that’s fine. In 6 months?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

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. Instead of trying to market directly to students at those schools (“but we already have a social network!”) So what do startups do?

Thailand 167

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

Distribution 103

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

Distribution 100

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Successful and failed experiments. I’ll be going over some of the tests we did and our results. Masterful onboarding (cheap).

Revenue 60

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc. Well, then you’ve got to go viral.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

API 167

API Viral Startup Retention 167

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. As a social network based on user-generated content, Circle of Friends only grew when its users were engaged. In the early stages of launch, the most important metric was the number of families who fired up the app at least once a day.

Metrics 156

Metrics Analytics Lean Churn Rate 156

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 168

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then, you can refine through testing different ads and web landing pages. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. You’re giving out money.”

Startup 36

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

France 77

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

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.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. “And importantly Web 2.0 And they still do.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all.

Cofounder 208

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Latest Social Media News. Web Video Roundup. The Social Good Brief. Programming and Web Development Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Web Design.

PR 103

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. They hope to raise awareness through viral marketing and word of mouth, since participating in professional industry events can be a pretty expensive ordeal when you take into account hotels, flights, tickets, etc.

Finder 128

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. The web and the app store is littered with terrific products that have a hard time getting scale, even though the teams behind them are strong and the product and market seem pretty attractive. This tends to be pretty hit-or-miss, I find.

Distribution 66

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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MARCH 24, 2011

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Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. In the industry they call this the “viral coefficient.”. is hot right now.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Naming on the web is difficult because it’s a multiple-step process that’s a mix of art, science and pure perseverance. For my Adult web store I used my dogs name + Pleasure box and I came up with corbinspleasurebox.org. GrowYourFish.

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