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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0 Don''t Force It.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0 Don''t Force It.

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‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Startup Professionals Musings

Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

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Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

Startup Professionals Musings

Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format.

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5 Easy Steps to Your Own E-Commerce Startup for $100

Startup Professionals Musings

Personalize a simple web site. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. MetaMarkets.