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How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users

17Apr By NitishNo Comments

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How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users

For online startups to gain user traction in any domain is a bumpy ride? There is no rocket science, but a perfect marketing strategy which sometimes works like Dropbox, which goes from 5000 to 75,000 users in one night using a video. Same like Dropbox today we are going to share insightful stories of online startups like Quora, Airbnb etc on "How they able to get such large numbers of users in such little amounts of time". Two online startups giants Quora and reddit solved the "empty site = no users / no users = empty site" problem in the same ways. The founders of both online startups spent the first months filling them with content themselves. On Quora, the founders simply answered and asked lots of questions under their own profiles. But the reddit approach wa...

12Apr By NitishNo Comments

INSPIRATIONAL

Inspirational story – “How these startup co-founders met former head of AirBnB India”

// In childhood we read in Mahabharata (epics of ancient India) "How an ordinary boy Eklavya denied access to Drona's mentorship and how he made an image of Drona and took the image as his guru monitoring and inspiring him. Because of his restless efforts and dedication to get the attention of his Guru, he become an archer of exceptional prowess which at-last impressed Guru Drona." Same in today's digital era a digital Drona (Mohit - Former AirBnB India's Head) impressed by his two Eklavya (co-founders of stayuncle) to support and mentor there startup. As per the story Mohit was bit reluctant too but because of continuous efforts of blaze and his team, Mohit at-last impressed . Read How Blaze(co-founder of stayuncle) wrote this lifetime experience into story ( we added four poin...

Buffer App – A Startup that developed formulas for sharing Equity and Salary

1Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Buffer App – A Startup that developed formulas for sharing Equity and Salary

It is quite common for the founders to split equity in their company early on in the process and an even-split is the common scenario seen in most of them. Every startup in the world faces "ups and downs" due to equity sharing issues. One thing which creates a big difference between good Startups and ordinary Startups in this matter is transparency. Good startups will always have better sharing equity structure and individual breakdown process. Many startups have failed just because of this sole reason due to lack of knowledge and experience about these structures. To solve this problem, we would like to introduce you to a startup, Buffer (social media tool and company name). It was founded by Joel and Leo (both are co-founders) in 2010 as a way to easily schedule twee...

James Altucher- How To Diversify Your Life

2Mar By NitishNo Comments

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James Altucher- How To Diversify Your Life

About - James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, podcaster, Blogger, author, social media and investor. He has founded or cofounded over 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr and claims to have failed at 17 of them. He has published 11 books, and is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times,TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post. USA Today named his book "Choose Yourself" among the 12 Best Business Books of All Time. One time I wanted to sell my company to HBO. The CFO was looking at the numbers. They were willing to buy it for a tiny amount but it was an amount that would’ve taken me about one billion years to save because that’s just the way I ...

15Oct By NitishNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Amit Singhal: The master of Google’s “ranking algorithm”

Amit Singhal is the current Senior Vice President and head of head of Google's core ranking team. His main area of interests are Information Retrieval (IR), its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Born and brought up In Jhansi this brilliant entrepreneur graduated from IIT Roorkee and the gained his M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth and later in 1996 he entered the prestigious league of Doctorate in the field of Computer Science at Cornell University. According to him, "UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have...