Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. A person receives an email about an endorsement, they visit the platform to view it, and then they’re nudged to endorse people in their own networks. Instead, they could simply click a link and enter an email address.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. We then spoke about startups. Series A round.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 2006. (7).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Image is the bedrock part of the “fake it till you make it” culture that animates most of Silicon Valley today. These tech startups create a go-to network of news outlets that will get an advanced warning whenever there’s something to report. Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network for free. itunes.apple.com. Masters of Scale?—?

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The bi-weekly podcasts feature interviews of entrepreneurs and silicon Valley leaders. VentureCast : Bi-weekly anecdotes on the Silicon Valley venture world. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. Sandhill.com Podcast : 40mn podcasts on Enterprise software.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. The guest speaker was a well known and highly successful Silicon Valley veteran: Tony Zingale, President and CEO of Mercury Interactive. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Feedburner Network.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

I think one of the key takeaways is that the exponential growth of Internet connected devices along with the strong viral loops of Facebook and Twitter have served as accelerants for these high growth companies. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network for free. itunes.apple.com.

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Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Versus something like LinkedIn, which is focused on getting people to invite their colleagues and people that they’re meeting through professional networking. Then what ends up happening is you get this density, you get all these network effects, you get increased engagement, etc. I’ll give a quick example: Lunchclub.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

While leading product at YouTube I fell in love with the Next New Networks team, one of the first startups to understand how to build content for YouTube and assist networks of creators. Hunter Walk: So you joined YouTube in 2011 when Next New Networks was acquired. VP: It is rapidly narrowing.

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Media Silicon Valley Audience Community 48

Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. Serious users vote in primaries, care about privacy , understand the importance of financial planning, and are somewhat hesitant about the exposure of personal information by social networks.

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Viral Silicon Valley API Distribution 79

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 15, 2020

One of the main factors that made my SocialNet journey so challenging was that so many different aspects of it were new and unknown, from the product category (at the time, there was no such thing as social networking) to the fact that it was the first startup for many of the team members, including me. How do I drive viral growth?

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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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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS? Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. Serious users vote in primaries, care about privacy , understand the importance of financial planning, and are somewhat hesitant about the exposure of personal information by social networks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. “Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. It's such a big problem.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think there's been a lot of curiosity in the wider world about Silicon Valley and the kind of pivot to working on COVID and this question on are private investors doing their part or not. I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. What's going on?

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  For example, I included TheFunded which is not a single author blog but rather a feed from a members-only network of entrepreneurs and I included Marc Andreesson who has great stuff on his blog but he just hasn't written anything new in a while.   In compiling the list I made several exceptions. 

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 59

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. That’s why i haven chosen to start working in Network marketing and MLM. Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable!

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. I am basically a one-man shop. It sounded fun in the beginning and I had a ton of passion to create this product.

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Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. The applications for uploading and sharing the photos are obviously more viral and visually compelling. Jeff was obsessed with Instagram at that time as nearly every Silicon Valley VC seemed to be (and still is). “And importantly Web 2.0

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). The former thinks it’s all about the content and the latter thinks it’s all about the tech. They also know how to a/b test images.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Pay attention to your fundamental driver of growth. keep iterating until its 1.1 before you launch. Thats how to "launch".

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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Southern California Los Angeles Media Founder 138

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

And we then essentially wrote up a plan how to test out this idea, shared it with a few people in our network including Sam Altman who, as it turned out, and it was of course featured on your show, was coordinating a group of companies to create a rapid COVID-19 response across different problem domains that he'd identified.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. Social Network Lists.

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