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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. 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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That last bit should sound familiar if you follow theories of Startup Laws & Metrics. Similarly, we hold up “viral growth” as the best sort of growth, because exponential curves overwhelm all others, thus once the mechanism is stable and the company gets large enough to be noticed, it’s neigh-impossible for competitors to catch up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and Angel investor, I still see too many common failure causes that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more.

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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. Scott entrepreneur lead generation startup' Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. 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.

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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. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Cold calling.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. 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. 4- Wikipedia.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices should be at the core of a company's strategy in 2023. Thanks to Sean Stevens, Immerse Education ! #5-

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Therefore, the world’s governments have issued varying degrees of lockdown or stay-at-home orders. What is a startup?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

On the other hand, if your business is selling commodities to government entities, social media may rightly be at the bottom of your list. Viral videos, personal anecdotes, and informal surveys would likely be counterproductive. Choose the best social media platform for your domain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. And, listen, I tell the stories of startups going fast for a living. Eric Ries : The essence of startup thinking right there. Celine Halioua : Yep.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

Challenges already face these practices since many weren’t prepared to open when the government announced reopening. Medical waiting rooms are the worst place to be in the middle of a viral crisis. The post How To Reopen Your Dental Practice After Covid-19 appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. 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.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

Earlier this year, for example, we put together a collection of posts from furloughed workers during the government shutdown. HW: What are some examples of stories that “went viral” on LinkedIn above and beyond the mainstream coverage? How do attitudes about technology company and startups compare across the two regions?

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. What was it like to tell them, "Hey, we're putting our whole startup on hold and we're just going to do nothing but COVID relief now." I am Eric Ries. Alpha Lee : The main proteinase.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

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. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The myth about pivots is that they are an exception: something undesirable that happens because a startup went seriously awry, and which you should strive to avoid. Actually, startups, like all businesses, work because of a cycle of invention and reinvention. Startups need coherence; all the elements need to fit together.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. He also offers advice for startups, who are facing difficult decisions as we move forward. In the first episode of Out of the Crisis, I talk with Sam Altman (transcript below).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I A common test would be a viral entry or a viral attachment assay. You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. That's left an enormous gap.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In 2018, Wimdu shut down, while a now-profitable Airbnb was one of the world’s most valuable startups. The third is high gross margins.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sharp to Launch Two 3D Android Handsets in Japan November 4, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup CorkboardMe Takes on Dropbox. Latest Startups News. If Hackers Didn’t Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them. Startups Lists. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Activity From People I Follow. Latest Social Media News. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Web Video Roundup. Today in Mobile.

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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. How do we best use it while also protecting individual privacy? Originally published at [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

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. How can governments not track hooligans, terrorists or criminals who give off public information. Asymmetric.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

a telephone locked inside a clear plastic box, digital art [DALL-E] My YouTube video went viral. And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. The conversation evolved to one about how our industry (venture, startups, tech in general) could better message about the positive role we play in the economy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster. And I think it's the same for startups. It could be the federal government. I know for a lot of you, that will sound familiar. You get your one miracle but not two.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. There’s no time to dicker around at a startup. Startups are hard work. Make deliberate decisions. Fire fast.?.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

It is possible to transmit this virus while asymptomatic, but most transmission (56%) happens after patients are symptomatic as viral shedding peaks close to when symptoms appear?—?and was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It follows the entrepreneurial journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries to entrepreneurial education and more. Farming is not like your high-tech startups. …. You’re recognized as a serial entrepreneur. This is it.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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