InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

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. He derived five lessons from his latest guerilla marketing triumph.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2013

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Refresh it often. Skip the flash (and Flash). Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2011

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get it remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Refresh it often. Skip the flash (and Flash). Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Customer Custom FAQ 90

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you need to provide RSS?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you need to provide RSS?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Topic customization.

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Entrepreneur News Sites RSS 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Topic customization.

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Startup News Sites RSS 94

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

They must compete with tens of thousands of other performers who are all pursuing the same customer dollars. At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers.

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Tips Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 204

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

I do not consume much TV content, other than cable news. An efficient way to qualify a potential customer is to determine the size and availability of their budget. o Sell What You Have - The Say Yes sales team's priority is to get customers to select "the perfect dress" from whatever they have on the racks. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. It might also be through twitter, Facebook, SMS, RSS, voice, etc. How does that happen? Don’t be a Ning!

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Web Sites Email HTML 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Topic customization.

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Startup News Sites RSS 52

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. I would tend to agree.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. If you write good content and consistently you’ll build an audience over time.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

We weren''t marketing the newsletter, it was just out there, sort of growing organically.". Consistency: Communicating with your constituents on a set schedule keeps your community engaged and forces you to create content, even when you feel you don''t have time to spare. The newsletter started to grow pretty quickly. Let''s get real.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks. Depending on where you placed the badge, your content could be held back while the script takes its time and your readers bail. Though a Bit.ly You’ll be given a short URL.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Report Content February 27, 2010 at 11:05am by Antone Johnson Great interview.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. In many cases only the piece of code handling the content can catch malformed URIs that need canonicalization.

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