Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Email marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive sales of any online channel. But the biggest challenge most businesses face is they don’t have an email database (which I’ll interchangeably refer to as a ‘list’) big enough to see the benefits of email. Launch a viral competition. in just over a month.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". Infection built-in, not bolt-on.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You can have all traction in the world—acquire, activate, and retain users, but until your startup earns money, you are doing charity work, not running a business. Even if you are just starting to consider building a SaaS startup , you’ve probably used products with either freemium pricing or a free trial. Choose wisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Startups need to realize that products are the jumping-off point for building relationships with customers. Want control?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Build an Email List. One of these harnesses the power of email subscriptions. Email subscription boosts your website’s SEO ranking favorably and increasing your popularity. Also, having an email list dedicated to your business helps in generating lead magnets. These are backlinks to your source website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Founder : Ummm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet home base up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. On the other hand, don’t assume that viral marketing is the only marketing you will need.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

I talk to at least a dozen new entrepreneurs each week and probably review two dozen email pitches. If you contact me cold then we’re probably going to exchange a few emails before I invite you to meet in person (however, it’s worth noting that I still do take a lot of meetings this way). You want to be a sponge, not a mirror.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups? Email Marketing. I’m not aware of any companies who aren’t doing email marketing, at least in some way or another. Email is absolutely still one of the best ways to convert new prospects while retaining and engaging existing customers when it’s personalized.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2011

It's a familiar story: a startup launches their beta. There's a spike in traffic and solid number of names and email addresses of interested people. The Viral Launch Page. And like many other startups, Easel implemented the viral sign-up page - something popularized by LaunchRock. But then what? And it has.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. Just a decade ago, most software/cloud startups used a traditional model where product and marketing were siloed: product teams created the product and marketing drove people to the website to buy it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2020

Each offers a variety of cost options for your startup business. However, we will only be discussing the pros and cons of shared hosting, it is the cheapest option for new startup companies. It is the most cost-effective for startup companies; the general cost runs from $0.99 to around $6 per month.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. But it also requires you to ask a few questions about your startup before you use it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. In the old days this was email addresses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Tips for Reducing Refunds - crowdspring.co/1eLxfzG. Small Business and Startups: Tips for Reducing Refunds - crowdspring.co/1eLxfzG. crowdspring.co/1l7OfAL.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

By minimizing interruptions and letting people get together no matter where they are, chat, email and similar services lower the hurdles to participation. It’s on the rise at forward-thinking businesses and startups because it leverages something deep within the human psyche.

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VC Cafe

MAY 13, 2014

Again and again (after a few drinks, of course) my European friends confided the same perception about Israeli startups: wonderful technologies, horrendous marketing. Proactively approach top tech publications with a finished article and a concise, one sentence email pitch. Email Your Targets Using Rapportive. Viral Projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Small businesses and startups face many challenges when marketing their products and services. Small businesses and startups have minimal brand recognition, are often located in geographic or demographic areas that limit their marketing options, and most have small (or non-existent) marketing budgets.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

We've written before about the importance of having a Web presence for your startup, even if you aren't prepared to launch. But a team at this weekend's Startup Weekend in Philadelphia has taken this idea one step further, designing a product that will help startups build viral launch pages: LaunchRock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users."

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

The father of “Growth Hacking” appears to be Sean Ellis who wrote this widely read post, “ Find a Growth Hacker for your Startup. For starters it brings a mindset to startups that not all of them have innately. If your startup isn’t committed to growth hacking you’ll never find extra-ordinary growth.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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Viral Technical Review Startup Social Network 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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Viral Technical Review Startup Social Network 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising). Whenever someone listed their accommodation on Craigslist, Airbnb emailed them to ask if they wanted to also post listings on its platform: Image source. Revival messaging.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I’ve been traveling all week, digging out of email, and closing two deals and — hence — have been pretty quiet online. market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. Remember Stitcher?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Because nobody trusts papa ads and you don't even see emails anymore cuz they go into spam. So when we talk through our accountant and the way that she can bring this to market, she has the email blasts, right? Mm-hmm and Viral doesn't have to mean you get 3 million views on something. Connect with Liz on LinkedIn. Absolutely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing. Scott entrepreneur lead generation startup'

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Last night 500 Startups co-hosted an event called Inbox Love on the Google campus that brought together a number of entrepreneurs and companies who are working in the email space. Being in company like Facebook and Google may be a little daunting for startups who too are attempting to address some of the problems surrounding email.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

Since the internet is the dominant force in every industry, startups need to conquer many challenges to succeed these days. Start a video podcast – video podcasts are increasingly popular among modern businesses and can greatly help achieve viral popularity across social media platforms and search engines on the web. Conclusion.

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