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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. Normally the product is defined as a web site. What applications and web sites have you been using? Then I spend time in all sorts of other applications and web sites.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter is my curated RSS feed.

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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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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you be taking this to market? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Often this ties to marketing support. Do you need to provide RSS? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Administrators? SEO for Startups )?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you be taking this to market? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Often this ties to marketing support. Do you need to provide RSS? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Administrators? SEO for Startups )?

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10 Ways To Become A Web Influencer In Today’s Market

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. Here are his key recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. Refresh it often. Provide all this information in an About page.

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