SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

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. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Do you need help getting hosting going?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. I can measure the "invisible virality" / "spread" by this big huge non-commenting, non-tweeting audience. Invisible Virality. Or for that matter how many tools. People matter. You matter. Cool right?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. You can install Apache or Nginx with virtual hosting, and run several sites plus other various tools of your choice (assuming you have the technical skills of course) like a MySQL database. Step 4: Build a Low-Fidelity Web Site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting. 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. The website can be a source of revenue.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Again, like shared hosting companies.) 10/mo means people see you as a cheap version of something else, but still expect a phone number. Think: GoDaddy). This is a hard slog.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Investors and founders alike have been obsessed about “growth at all costs,” just as a virus colony grows without care to its effect on its host cells or whether the colony’s growth ends up destroying the host body completely, taking the colony down with it in a viral version of Lord of the Flies.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Virality and marketplaces: generally low, but…. Generally speaking, marketplaces aren’t blessed with intrinsic virality. Many companies try to spark virality – with promo codes or gamification – but these artificial strategies don’t scale well. Airbnb offers discounts for customers that bring in new guests/hosts.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Tony provides specific models and suggestions for how startups can leverage social networks for viral growth yet maintain their independence so as not to limit themselves long-term. Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 29, 2013

Nothing is as viral. Host a secret, underground event. Nothing spreads as fast. And nothing becomes the talk of the town (and the internet) as quickly as a secret. Gossip and whispers existed well before the Internet. The only thing that has changed, is that the gossip now happens even faster. Tell a few people (your best customers).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

With all of the different hosting services available online, just about anyone can build a website themselves these days. Most small businesses know that they are dependent on their customers, but a recent episode of Kitchen Nightmares that went viral demonstrated that there are a few out there who need to be reminded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. 8) Angry Birds. But the testing, refining and bug squashing would remain the same.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Making Your Fundraising Campaign Go Viral Online. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 is a prime example of an effective international charity campaign that went viral right across social media sites. In order for a fundraising campaign to go viral online, it must be engaging, amusing, and entertaining. Charity Video Streams.

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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

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. If you want to see the virality of LaunchRock in action, search Twitter for "Maple Butter," a new project from Flowtown 's Dan Martell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Given that base plus the inherent viral component to these social apps, it seems natural that the first overnight success of a Kinect-powered app will be a social one. Anytime a fundamentally new platform is introduced, it creates white-space… especially for startups. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting. 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. The website can be a source of revenue.

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Viral Web Naming Internet 191

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

If you offer an online service, host webinars, have contests on social media, design a virtual tour of your facility. If you have fewer posts but of a higher quality, it’s much more likely one of those posts will go viral and reach an exponentially larger group than you would reach if you had focused on quantity,” he says.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you get particularly active and helpful, you may even start receiving invites to host Twitter chats. Viral Content Bee , my own platform, allows users to upload (non-promotional) URLs for others to share on a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter. Here’s a list of major Twitter chats in digital marketing.

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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. It created viral buzz because other fans saw the email address and wanted to know how they got it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Mayfield recently hosted a Mobile Marketplaces dinner with leading entrepreneurs, which yielded several insights. Growth hacking” or the mentality of “try every viral trick, every channel as quickly as possible in order to get ahead in the land grab” is a hot topic. Myth #1: Online marketplaces have no offline component .

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Both of these startups came to market with a social media platform focused on short, viral videos that were ideal for quickly sharing on social media. Both of these platforms have effectively failed, but the idea of the viral video is alive and well in the form of TikTok. Thanks to Max Whiteside, Breaking Muscle ! #28-

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Outbound Squad, formerly Blissful Prospecting, hosted by Jason Bay. Cuz it's not just, you know, it's like when viral videos were like all the thing, everybody wanted to make a viral video, but why ? Duct Tape Transcript. For to what end?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. There’s no telling what will go viral.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

When the Google Arts and Culture app released a feature in January that matches a selfie to a famous work of art, it didn’t take long for the doppelganger game to go viral. Hosting a clickwrap agreement on your website will set you ahead of the pack in both visible security efforts and privacy regulation compliance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2023

UpViral – This referral marketing platform is designed to run effective and profitable viral marketing campaigns and help businesses of all sizes generate more site traffic, increase their customer base, and boost sales with its leads and templates.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 14, 2019

At the first-ever Modern Governance Summit for BoardEffect users, hosted by Diligent Corporation in September, 2019, board effectiveness was a key theme, thus making better board decision-making a key priority in using board management software. Modern governance makes that easier. Speaking of time, speed can be essential in a crisis.

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Government Software Review Technical Review Leadership 55

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. Kara is an active speaker, writer, and host of the podcast Unstoppable with Kara Goldin where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other disruptors across various industries. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone.

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Marketing Silicon Valley Cofounder Framework 91

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. John Jantsch (16:48): A viral referral tool. 16:13): Yeah, yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

Travel agencies, websites, and tourism boards have hosted travel competitions, winning Facebook Likes and Twitter mentions that help propel them to the forefront of customers’ social media spheres. Travel and Hospitality. The highly competitive travel industry has taken to social media, and many heavy hitters are reaping the benefits.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

The days after launch can be harsh and unrewarding, but smart developers employ a host of ‘old school’ web promotion techniques to create a flow of downloads. Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. So how can you beat the odds? Here are some of my top tips: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You can even gain social media stardom by having one of your posts go ‘viral’, as many businesses have benefited dramatically from 5 minutes of fame online. Users can share the content that you post with their own friends or followers, further spreading your message throughout your audience.

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