Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Cold calling. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. AltBird Robotics is a technology start-up that offers robotic and drone services to businesses and government agencies.

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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. Scott, just published a new book that I like,” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. One of these experts, David T. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Creators of technologies that cure world hunger may find that hungry people don’t have money, but government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include personal computers, smartphones, the Internet and the first social-media platforms. Limit the features and complexity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2019

You still have to give your content the priority among all the other measures because quality content could go viral as opposed to the one that is all in all boisterous. If your content is not up to the mark, nobody is going to give it attention even if you have mastered SEO techniques.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

The New York Times’ John Herrman recently asked “ Is there anything the rest of the internet can learn from LinkedIn? ,” in relation to how people there are relatively civil there compared to purely social media platforms. HW: Do people pitch you company PR that’s dressed up as news? Where does it appear?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. And it carries no inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

The general public is on a constant search for updated information on the issue and the internet is the first place they’re looking to find it. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. It''s a good measurement because it captures both satisfaction and virality. LSC: What''s an example of one metric, other than revenue, that you might look at for a non-tech product?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Is Government a good idea? internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Thursday, November 13, 2008. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. Thanks to the power of the Internet, you can build channels that are selling to many people without the need to communicate with them individually.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. Before starting my dance company in late 2018, I was gung-ho about giving 40+ years of my life away to the federal government. This all happened at a time when the internet was evolving into what we now know as the World Wide Web. Eventually, I left.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. On the bright side, there’s at least awareness to these risks by governments, but will they know to strike the balance between innovation, progress and regulation? Time will tell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

When a potential customer visits a website and then leaves without making a purchase, companies can ‘follow’ them on the Internet,” says Melissa Chelist, owner of Storkgifts , an online children’s store. According to Think Mobile with Google : 81% of smartphone users access the Internet on their mobile devices.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2020

And part of my process, and I have a couple of kind of viral time-lapse videos out there that kind of show what this looks like, where I’m moving paper around and using post it notes and stuff. We’re looking for, I mean half of the articles that go viral are, 10 speakers that you have to have at your next event.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2020

An Amazon delivery driver in Delaware was filmed by a Ring doorbell as he reacted to snacks that were left for him and the video went viral. However, the driver didn’t know he was being filmed until the video went viral. Should the Ring doorbell have had a sign alerting people to the fact that they were being filmed?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites. Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. Market Motive: Internet Marketing Knowledge On Tap. Best Web Analysis Tip: Eliminate Data & Eschew Fake Proxies. 5 + 4 Actionable Tips To Kick Web Data Analysis Up A Notch, Or Two. 1: Visitors.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This principle is no less true of businesses than government agencies; particularly in the decade following 9/11> Large corporations have made it a priority to invest considerable resources in disaster recovery plans, crisis manuals, business interruption insurance and so forth. Empower users to spot and report issues of all kinds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 29, 2023

In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. These companies, the, this business model has been in effect for, since the beginning of the internet. I mean if, let's just call it the government. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts. (00:52):

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Object Communications (now often called “the Internet of Things”). Put simply, the amount of public, real-time information that is now being created by hundreds of millions of users and soon billions of objects will change the way every major business, organization or government must operate. Predictive Data. Asymmetric.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We know that you’re representing the board’s independent governance, and that if you’ve come to this point of view, that helps us get comfortable with making a quicker decision.”. The way to cut that Gordian Knot is to enlist a board partner to advocate for the pivot. Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy. You’re giving out money.”

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Government Top 5 Mashable Lists Twitter List Directory » 1 @mashable/mashable Followers: 8832 Members: 33 2 @mashable/social-media Followers: 7013 Members: 98 3 @mashable/marketing Followers: 4184 Members: 51 4 @mashable/tech Followers: 3115 Members: 65 5 @mashable/media Followers: 2751 Members: 92 Get Mashable updates on your mobile device!

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. But don’t get sucked into it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In a separate study done by viral content agency Fractl , they showed participants 30 of the top 100 images on Reddit, asking them to look at the image, then to the corresponding emotion on Robert Plutchik’s Wheel Of Emotion. image sources. If nobody is comfortable enough to talk about the problem, how can the problem be fixed?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You sell a product that requires an internet connection and a web browser for access, which means your prospects are online! internet. (6). Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. but focus is a good thing.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

And while it's condescending it's tone may prove quite useful for non-engineers wanting to start internet businesses with no idea of what is required to do so, which it seems like a lot of people who'd ask this kind of question in this kind of forum, are. Trying to regain internet connection. startupcto

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

The point is that I usually have a pretty good feel when a topic is trending or a movement is growing on the Internet. Invisible Children’s goal was also straightforward: to put pressure on the Ugandan government and other African countries to capture Kony by the end of 2012. Photo: Marie Jades.

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