The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Why Your Startup’s Name Matters. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. SEE ALSO: Want Your Startup Name in the Dictionary?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. This article is the second in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Wednesday, we discussed why your startup’s name matters , and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing and buying domains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship , small business , leadership, social media , marketing, and more! 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. Twitter claims it’s not a social network – [link].

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Several startups embraced the idea of the preemptive checkin.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. in place before you expand.

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

As I get ready to launch my new startup Uncover , my team and I created a GitHub Issues List of what we need to check off. Complete Homepage copy: One of the pages we left for last – and I know many new startups do – is the copy for the homepage. Lots of customers want to reach you on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. How To Close The Books on Your Startup. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Latest Social Media News.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Why Branding Is the Next Essential Startup Competency – [link].

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

That’s how search engines know what your site is about. It’s our direct connection to the search engine giant itself, and it can give us a wealth of information about how Google is reading our website. Latest Social Media News. Latest Startups News. The Social Good Brief. That boiled down to keywords. That’s spam.

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Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. Social networks, in this case, are used, above all, to disseminate and publicize these Sponsorships. Growth Hacking.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. and Path Intelligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

Marketing 257

Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 257

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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Marketing SEM Startup Viral 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

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Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 215

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. Not a chance.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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Social Media Media Viral Audience 238

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. 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.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Experience with Startups! Don’t hire someone who has never worked with a startup before, because the environment is totally different. Have an account?

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Social shares comprise a new data source that presents technical complexity specific to this market, and I have watched my company’s customers struggle with poor data leading to the wrong decisions. The best publishers are getting even more savvy and looking at the virality of individual stories to judge success.

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Viral Technical Review Social Network SEO 50

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. Do not rely on SEO to market your product It sounds contradictory, but its true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

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Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 229

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

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SVPG

JANUARY 12, 2011

I recently asked the founder of a startup what he most wanted to know about marketing. Although their engineered virality was brilliant, it misses that people refer clients, parents and friends to Dropbox regardless of whether or not they benefit from it. He sent tech writers his week-over-week growth.

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Product Technical Review Social Media Viral 69

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

And don’t get me started on how great of a job Netflix does in creating high switching costs (or “community stickiness”) with all of its great ratings and social networking features. Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. a recommendation engine).

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Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. View More » Social Good Google Gives $250,000 to Tech Educati. 5 Creative Social Good Campaigns for. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

The name I chose is scovry and the website ( [link] ) that it goes to is a social media based search engine that displays results in a “spy” type format. Social Networks etc. Latest Social Media News. Latest Startups News. The Social Good Brief. International Journalists Network.

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Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Blake Engel said.

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