Startup Branding

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Startup Branding 101 - some ideas how to brand your startup

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www.imagga.com

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Startup Branding

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image analysis services

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Photo sharing

900M daily 26B images monthly

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How to organize all these photos?

find discover group tag

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TECHNOLOGY

Color Extraction

Visual Similarity

Auto-Tagging

Smart-Cropping Auto-Categorization

IMAGGA API

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Who am I?

TW: @chrisgeorgiev FB: /chris.georgiev www.chrisgeorgiev.com !chris.georgiev@gmail.com

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Branding began as way to tell one person’s cattle from another by a

hot iron stamp

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“Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” !!

Jeff Bezos, founder of amazon.com

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Brand > Startup

unique name logo .com domain homepage business card

a user experience editorial voice customer service marketing

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Branding > Story

“If you don’t give the market the story to talk about, they’ll define your brand’s story for you.”

David Brier

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Branding > Tell a Story

The story is the foundation of your brand’s vocabulary !

Why should anyone care? Why they should choose you?

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Branding > Personal

If your startup was a person, how would it... Talk to someone? Treat its friends? Borrow money? Make a living? Dress? Have fun? Behave in a courtroom?

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Brand > YOU

• Startup brands are weak

• First customers buy because of YOU

• Transfer the TRUSTWORTHINESS to your brand

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Branding > Stand Out

Dare to be different

color

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Branding > Stand Out

Dare to be different

shock

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Branding > Stand Out

fruit/animal

Dare to be different

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Branding > Stand Out

numberDare to be different

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Branding > Stand Out

• We are, after all, the third planet from the sun

• In every fairy tale there are always 3 wishes

• In Chinese, 3 sounds like life

• There were 3 wise men

• 3 is the lucky number

• You can only truly know where you are if you have 3 coordinates

• You can't have space without 3 dimensions

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Brand > Be Different

Take risk early - nothing to lose

Playing safe = Death

Pissing people off is OK

Make people LOVE or HATE you

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

Be iconic Overstate Deliver simple message If they HATE you, that’s OK

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

CHANGE

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

PEACE

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

POWER

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

SEX

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

HUMANITY

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Branding > Stand for SOMETHING

HERO

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Branding > 101

Startup Idea > short statement

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Branding > 101

01 > create a story

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Branding > 101

02 > pick a world and modify it > foreign domain - .ly, .me, .io > drop a letter - Flickr, Tumblr > add a letter - Imagga, Digg > add fun prefix - Insta- > attach word - TripIt, ColorFit

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Branding > 101

03 > get domain > can be expensive > check the meaning

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.expertsexchange.com

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.expertsexchange.com

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.penisland.com

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.penisland.com

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.therapist.com

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Branding > 101

03 > domain name

www.therapist.com

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Branding > 101

04 > create logo

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Branding > 101

05 > use it constantly

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Branding > 10106 > reflect your values > what’s important > what do you care about > customer service > refunding policy !

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Branding > 101

07 > create brand ambassadors > make them happy > ask the for feedback > love them

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Branding > 101

08 > cliches do not work > best of break > leading provider of… > next generation > committed to excellence > dedicated team

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Branding > 101

08 > cliches do not work > best practices > going the extra mile > culture of innovation > state of the art > world class

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