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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? Do you need to process user-contributed media?

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) Startup Challenges Management: Setting priorities, defining key metrics, reporting progress Product: Build the right features, getting product out quickly, testing for conversion/adoption Marketing: Accessing "web 2.0"

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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 28 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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How to create a 1M+ views Instagram Reel for your startup

NZ Entrepreneur

Short form engagement leads to real engagement Web traffic was up 30-40x at its peak, and is still 10x while our content remains favoured by the algorithm gods. However, time spent on our site has been down compared to those who actively found us through web search. Viral short form can help!

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

That's not including others I actively seek out around the web. Remember I am the creator of the 10/90 rule of investment in web analytics. Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. The rarest of the rarest of the rare who are on social media.

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Quickly Unpacking Spotify’s Acquisition Of Gimlet Media

Haystack

As I was scrolling through Twitter today and saw the rumors around Gimlet, the podcast media company, being acquired by Spotify for $200M in cash, I knew I had to stop, write this post, and share some thoughts on what’s going on. market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? So, here goes…. Remember Stitcher?