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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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Our Insights and Opinions article today comes from Ryan Born , who is CEO of both AudioMicro and Audioo , both Los Angeles area startups. It's almost always in the context of another entrepreneur that starting a new web endeavor. Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. If you do all these things right as a search results advertiser, you will make money from selling your product. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. I remember in the mid-90’s when banner advertising started. Then came blogs.

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