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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 28 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) Perception = reality.

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8 Ways Blogging Can Supercharge Your Business Website

Startup Professionals Musings

I have found that publishing a regular blog can give you an edge in making all this happen. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites. Your blog followers will be your best customers.

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Rivaling Google, Web-Mining Diffbot Opens Its Knowledge Graph to All

Xconomy

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Finally, review the numbers with your partners.

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Tim Berners-Lee Building Inrupt to Fix the Web—Will Users Come?

Xconomy

The World Wide Web is at a crossroads. In order to use “free” apps and Web services from the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), people are required to share personal data that gets used by brands and companies to try and sell them stuff. That online contract.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” This blog post lays out my case. The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.”

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