YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There is no doubt about it, the appeal of startup culture is inarguable. If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. Many tech companies earn success by going viral. So, you’ve got the bug to work for yourself? San Francisco is already well publicized.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. million sunglasses units.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

For companies without a physical location, social networks are the only place that customers can go to get an idea about you, your business, and your company culture. Professionalisms marketing startup startups' Chris Garrett is a freelance writer with many years of experience in small business marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. It’s worth a quick read.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. Later in this post, I'll talk about some of the downside of how they've made this viral.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

Startups are the corporations of the future, so I have long believed that entrepreneurs who study existing corporate models, rather than ignoring them with disdain, will likely profit from the exercise. That means if your new startup doesn’t plan for continuous innovation, the company may never reach corporate status. Globalization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. hits all the right points from my perspective: There are risks as well as benefits.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You can have all traction in the world—acquire, activate, and retain users, but until your startup earns money, you are doing charity work, not running a business. Even if you are just starting to consider building a SaaS startup , you’ve probably used products with either freemium pricing or a free trial. Choose wisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". Which is OK — not all products need to be viral!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

It’s a very important concept for me because in a startup you are constantly under pressure and have way too many distractions. Commitment & urgency are key drivers of success in startup businesses. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. You already know it from your personal lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. million sunglasses units.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

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. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business. Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. To compete, startups must find ways to provide customers an easier, faster, more pervasive connection to digital networks, via mobile as well as the Internet.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! “But 1) Twitter. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you. 8) Angry Birds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts. It helps to advertise your new presence with a grand opening, viral video, and traditional advertising to highlight entry into the arena.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene. All the rest.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. 8) Fellowup , a personal virtual assistant to manage your unmanageably large network.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Startups require nurturing, monitoring, and sustained investments to get off the ground. How will your startup benefit from well-crafted and valuable content? This creates a network of resources that offer value to users. Social Sharing – Sometimes, good content gets viral. Can Great Content Help Startups?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

There is an old saying in the startup investor community, “Smart investors invest in the team, not the idea.” Beyond basic business and technical credentials, here are some of the key startup team attributes that every investor is looking for: Team shows an appreciation and plan for marketing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups? Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. Social and Display Ads.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2020

Here is guerrilla marketing — how to growth hack your startup. I know first hand how frustrating it can be for entrepreneurs who believe in their startup so strongly but are struggling to get the traction they need. Our team quickly realized we needed to do something extra to fast track this startup’s visibility.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. John Jantsch (10:27): Yeah, that's, I've been teaching that exact tactic, I call it peer-to-peer networking. Mm-hmm and Viral doesn't have to mean you get 3 million views on something. For to what end?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

Is it an Texas-based tech startup company or is it doing something in the email space? For me, that’s any tech startup company in Texas or any email related company in the world. What will it take for your tech startup to raise $500,000 in Austin in 2017? I only advise and invest in companies where I can have a big impact.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. I write about startups, product design, user experience, psychology, and other topics I’m passionate about. I write for fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

Since the internet is the dominant force in every industry, startups need to conquer many challenges to succeed these days. Start a video podcast – video podcasts are increasingly popular among modern businesses and can greatly help achieve viral popularity across social media platforms and search engines on the web. Conclusion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page.

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