Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Note the growth of your team and your own leadership. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Note the growth of your team and your own leadership. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

There is nothing viral! Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Larger enterprises let you learn as you go, with minimal risk, and they pay for leadership training, employee management, and new project management tools. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic and passionate group, who normally expect their idea to go viral soon, and success to follow shortly thereafter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. More complex and defensible businesses should highlight their organic drive to profitability and brand leadership. Growing appreciation for the value of the solution provided.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers. In this age of instant communication through the Internet and social media, people remember personal images more than a product or service name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. More complex and defensible businesses should highlight their organic drive to profitability and brand leadership. Growing appreciation for the value of the solution provided.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Millennials need our coaching and mentoring to build confidence, to improve how they handle business relationships, tackle new responsibilities, and handle leadership roles. Business leaders and mentors must highlight their own focus on positive leadership actions, instead of defensive reactions.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The product is so good, helpful, and easy to use that it literally almost does its own marketing organically through the product’s viral nature, just as Hotmail and Gmail have done since inception. It scaled like lightning by solving an urgent, painful problem for millions of consumers. What’s the honest trajectory? What’s the point?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If you don’t yet have a hundred investors knocking on your door, it’s time to put more focus on viral marketing, closing customers, and exponential growth. Additional defensibility elements that unicorn investors look for include speed of implementation, rate of revenue and user growth, and exceptional team strength and leadership.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. Alison Levine is a leadership expert, polar explorer, and mountaineer who is no stranger to extreme environments. Covey is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, where he helped his father, Stephen R. Steven M.R.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Decisions, decisions — they’re part of governance, leadership, and life. According to Bridgespan , effective decision-making processes are among the top factors that enable effective board leadership. Board leadership can collect that information to inform discussions about an issue before voting is required.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2020

In any case, these tests can be good for showing the extent of viral spread in a community and providing useful public health information and guidance for our overwhelmed healthcare system. . For serological tests, it is still early to call this a true diagnostic. We are all in this together xo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2020

Larger enterprises let you learn as you go, with minimal risk, and they pay for leadership training, employee management, and new project management tools. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic and passionate group, who normally expect their idea to go viral soon, and success to follow shortly thereafter.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. Product-growth fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2019

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interesting Facebook post on the viral potential of rumors … The strange truth about fiction – crowdspring.co/1rJBrCv. Is Native Advertising Even Profitable for Brands?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! ripenn - crowdspring.co/1gSudHW.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Social Proof – This is a major factor on the web, and is predicated on “badges” such as one’s number of followers, Klout scores, web hits and other indicators of social leadership. Systematically engaging influencers who are most willing (or least passive) to distribute your contents virally. Nuff said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2024

Inside Out: Unlearning it all and Building Leadership from Within written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Scott Stratten. 15:18] Talk about how leadership is a creative act? [16:26] So welcome, Scott.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 22, 2023

Redefining Strength: How Anxiety Can Be a Leadership Asset written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Morra Aarons-Mele In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Morra Aarons-Mele. In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Four decades later, and thanks to sound financial decisions and clear leadership, Disney is one of the most successful brands and companies in the world. 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. 13- My grandfather.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Berger explains why people talk about certain produces and ideas more than others, why some stories have a greater tendency towards a viral effect and why some rumors are simply more infectious than others. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 12, 2012

My last blog post, by far, was the most viral piece I’ve written in four years of blogging. One is awareness and the other is wise and tolerant leadership. Provocative titles and edgy content seem to win readers. And it would appear that creative style is a hot topic. Call it the Diversity Dilemma.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! New OK Go Video – White Knuckles (Have these guys mastered full-proof viral videos?) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 23, 2023

Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age by Jonah Berger – Why certain ideas or products go viral and how to apply these principles to your business. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath – The essential elements that make ideas memorable and effective.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! SaaS products aren’t viral – [link]. Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And Square | Forbes – [link]. Want to get a job at a startup? Show them WHY.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2017

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2015

Yet they go viral throughout an organization, kill morale, prevent engagement, and slow productivity to a crawl. That creates a dependency on receiving orders from leadership, and those employees can’t execute your strategy because they won’t take responsibility for causing things to happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Master leadership skills ? The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. Courses in finances, leadership, management, and communications are particularly noteworthy for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

Focus on establishing brand voice and thought leadership is priceless rather than sales. Insightful content has a higher chance of “going viral” on social media, which also can help in reaching key stakeholders like potential investors, clients and partners. Leverage Paid Ads Strategically.

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