Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

Social Media 267

Social Media Media Social Network Viral 267

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

Metrics 156

Metrics Analytics Lean Churn Rate 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

Social Media 261

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 261

ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight.

Analytics 134

Analytics Video Matching Conversion 134

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Read everything you can about viral marketing.

Social Media 222

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 222

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. In addition, look at Facebook’s revenue per user growth globally over the past few quarters. Next-Gen Networking.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

Distribution 103

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Investors see a lot of pitches.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

Distribution 100

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities. Web businesses can now grow revenue before they can even afford sales people.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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.

API 167

API Viral Startup Retention 167

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. See their blog post on multiples.).

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), It is a social network (like Facebook). I'm not a fan of compound metrics.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

SEO is still a major traffic driver for publishers, but search is search is slowly losing its grip — constituting less than 50 percent of traffic sent to publishers — to an exploding number of social referrers. But, as publishers turn to social insights to optimize content and fuel site revenue, they run into a big problem.

Viral 50

Viral Technical Review Social Network SEO 50

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight.

Analytics 98

Analytics Software Review Conversion Video 98

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. Patrick: How close did he get?

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

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. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

In fact, mobile app revenue for 2016 is estimated at $58 billion. A trial-to-paid conversion rate or mobile user-to-customer conversion rate type metric is a good start. It’s close to the revenue, it’s measurable, it’s directly linked to onboarding. For example, Facebook has a seven friends in ten days metric.

Mobile 48

Mobile Retention Email Software Review 48

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! My 2 cents.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90