Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

competitors Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, and Google banded together to form the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society , an industry-led attempt to get ahead of the many social, ethical, and economic issues presented by the advent of technology with increasingly human-like capabilities. Last fall, A.I.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2012

The firm has been fairly quiet recently, but apparently in the last few months has retooled itself as an "educational startup", focused on providing courses on the iPad, iPhone, and Android, in addition to YouTube, the web, and Apple's iBook platform. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically.

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Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?”

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Writing Buzzfeed Social Media Blogging 326

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Underbelly.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. Here are some of the easiest methods Fertik and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Blogging Content Google Sites 99

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google. He also recently blogged his feelings on Pinterest mania. You guys are going to be rich!”. I guess I was right. Hunter Walk. Tristan Walker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I have thought a lot about anonymity over the years and actually have enjoyed debating the topic with those passionate about anonymity’s benefits because of course that’s how I learn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. Of course they can be duped. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Quora, Tumblr. ” “Exactly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. Here are some of the easiest methods Michael and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Course San Diego Invest Funding 45

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Technical Review Startup Course Software Review 417

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Of course it’s better for me as a user and I could argue it’s MY social graph. For the most part Twitter is benevolent in the way Google is. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. That’s how Google became Google.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Of course, there are nearer-term goals as well, such as supplementing (and even replacing) bulky, expensive MRI machines. Xconomy has followed Jepsen’s work over the years —from her role as CTO of One Laptop Per Child, to senior executive positions at Google X and Facebook/Oculus. In this recent conversation, we focused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2011

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. Here are some of the easiest methods we both recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Twittering. Twittering.

Blogging 91

Blogging Content Google Sites 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. LA should be LA.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2010

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. Here are some of the easiest methods we both recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Twittering. Twittering.

Blogging 95

Blogging Content Google Sites 95

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And speaking of coaching, if you haven’t read Googled by Ken Auletta you should. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation. Of course, Uber has got bigger problems at the moment.) —UPS tested a rudimentary form of drone delivery in Lithia, FL.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Conference Course 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. What I *SHOULD HAVE* considered was that I was in college in a time when there were no digital cameras and I’m very thankful for that or I likely wouldn’t be writing this blog post today. Are you beating up every Silicon Valley VC that didn’t do Facebook or Google or Uber early?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. Blogging has gone through many iterations. 2.2mm in Series A. It sucked. It still does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Start your campaign and blog early, to get the message and vision out there (no selling), establish your value and expertise, show your commitment, and start building your home base of contacts and followers. Make your customers your platform.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Company : FindTheBest. Meredith Publishing.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

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SEO Startup Search Engine Optimization Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. Of course this is an imprecise science which is why you measure both methods.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Custom 150