Clifford Lerner

Clifford Lerner

New York, New York, United States
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Cliff Lerner is a social media visionary, founder, investor, author, and board member…

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Education

  • Cornell University Graphic

    Cornell University

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    Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Mu

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    Based on the Ben Graham and Warren Buffett approach to allocating capital, this exclusive program teaches the frameworks and processes of investing that some of the most successful investors in the world employ to manage and preserve capital

Publications

  • Top 50 Writer In Business, Startups, & Entrepreneurship on Medium

    Medium

    Cliff is a top writer on Medium in Entrepreneurship, Business, and Startups. Follow Cliff on Medium to read his articles - https://medium.com/@clifflerner .

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  • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

    Book on Amazon

    THE ULTIMATE PLAYBOOK FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS TO GROW TO ONE MILLION USERS AND MORE

    Imagine what your life would be like if your business suddenly began signing up an astonishing 100,000 new users daily without spending another penny. What if investors started giving your business the attention it deserves?

    That's exactly what happened to Cliff Lerner when he bet his online dating start-up's fortunes on a then-unknown platform called Facebook. The app achieved explosive growth, and…

    THE ULTIMATE PLAYBOOK FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS TO GROW TO ONE MILLION USERS AND MORE

    Imagine what your life would be like if your business suddenly began signing up an astonishing 100,000 new users daily without spending another penny. What if investors started giving your business the attention it deserves?

    That's exactly what happened to Cliff Lerner when he bet his online dating start-up's fortunes on a then-unknown platform called Facebook. The app achieved explosive growth, and soon after the stock price skyrocketed 2,000 percent, setting off an extraordinary chain of events filled with sudden success and painful lessons. This compelling and inspiring narrative will show you how to

    - IGNITE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH by creating a remarkable product
    - Identify the ONLY 3 METRICS THAT MATTER
    - Explore valuable VIRAL GROWTH strategies to grow rapidly
    - Execute the GENIUS MEDIA HACKS that helped us acquire 100 million users
    - Create a thriving culture of PASSIONATE EMPLOYEES and CONSTANT INNOVATION

    In Explosive Growth, Cliff provides his step-by-step playbook to achieve explosive growth, combining lively and often hilarious storytelling, proven tactics, case-studies, and reliable insights to help your startup achieve its own explosive growth.

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  • Cliff talks about Explosive Growth, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Startups, & More.

    Yahoo Finance 'Final Round' Interview

    Interview with Yahoo Finance discussing my book, 'Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned Growing To 100 Million Users'. We also discuss #bitcoin, #ethereum, #crypto, #facebook, #instagram and my thoughts on bitcoin reaching $100,000 in 2018.

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  • Explosive Growth Book Website

    Explosive Growth - Clifford Lerner

    Explosive Growth is the ultimate playbook for startup founders to grow to one million users and more.

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Patents

  • Selecting matches in a social dating system

    Issued US US10025835B2

    A social dating system selects matching users for a viewing user based on common interests between the matching user and the viewing user. The social dating system accesses information related to users from a social networking system, indicating relationships between users and social networking objects. The social dating system determines common interests between users by determining a relatedness of social networking objects. The common interests are used to determine compatibility between…

    A social dating system selects matching users for a viewing user based on common interests between the matching user and the viewing user. The social dating system accesses information related to users from a social networking system, indicating relationships between users and social networking objects. The social dating system determines common interests between users by determining a relatedness of social networking objects. The common interests are used to determine compatibility between users and to select matching users. Suggested messages are also selected for the viewing user to initiate a conversation based on common interests. The suggested messages may be based on promotions by an advertiser.

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Honors & Awards

  • Best Startup Books Of All-Time

    Benzinga.com

    'Explosive Growth' listed as one of the 'Best Startup Books Of All-Time.'

    https://www.benzinga.com/money/best-startup-books/

  • SNAP Interactive CEO Cliff Lerner Named An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Finalist In New York

    Ernst & Young


    SNAP Interactive, Inc. (now PEER) today announced that CEO Cliff Lerner was named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 program in the New York region. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

  • SNAP Interactive Ranked the 36th Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500

    Deloitte

    SNAP Interactive, Inc. (now PEER), a leading social application developer, today announced it ranked 36th overall on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. In the New York Metro area, the Company was ranked 5th and in the Internet category, the Company ranked 9th. SNAP's revenue grew 4,412 percent from 2007 to 2011.

    Cliff Lerner, the co-founder and chief…

    SNAP Interactive, Inc. (now PEER), a leading social application developer, today announced it ranked 36th overall on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. In the New York Metro area, the Company was ranked 5th and in the Internet category, the Company ranked 9th. SNAP's revenue grew 4,412 percent from 2007 to 2011.

    Cliff Lerner, the co-founder and chief executive officer of SNAP, credits SNAP's ability to identify unique opportunities and rapidly execute and iterate on its product vision in the fast moving social discovery and online dating space as the catalyst for the Company's 4,412 percent revenue growth.

    "We are honored to be recognized by Deloitte, particularly in the New York Metro area which is rapidly improving its reputation as a home for technology innovators and entrepreneurs," said Lerner. "As the social discovery and online dating industries have evolved, we have seen tremendous opportunities to use our platform to connect people in meaningful ways."

    "We are proud to honor SNAP as one of the 2012 Technology Fast 500™ companies, and commend them for their outstanding growth," said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) leader. "These ground-breaking companies have outpaced their competition and are reinventing the way we do business today."

    "SNAP and the companies on the Fast 500 list are among those that have demonstrated remarkable innovation, creativity and business savvy," said Bill Ribaudo partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP and national TMT leader for audit and enterprise risk services (AERS). "As a result, these companies have continued to successfully forge ahead in a challenging economic environment. We applaud the leadership and employees of SNAP for this impressive accomplishment."

  • Best Growth Hacking Book

    Entrepreneur.com

    'Explosive Growth' listed as one of the 'Best Growth-Hacking Book.'

    https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/318685

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