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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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The Top 15 Business Trends to Avoid for 2018

Mike Michalowicz

Most are flashes in the pan. This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. You can’t architect a viral success. The Rule Of Thumb.

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Publishers, your shares data is wrong

gigaom.com

The best publishers are getting even more savvy and looking at the virality of individual stories to judge success. And then extracting the viral characteristics of successful stories to make editorial decisions that hopefully continue to tickle reader curiosity and keep them coming back. Image courtesy of Flickr user KungPaoCajun.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry.

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The 15 Business Trends To Avoid This Year

Mike Michalowicz

Most are flashes in the pan. This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. You can’t architect a viral success. The Rule Of Thumb.

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