SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Holocognics would break it down even further and discuss why, for instance, SEO works in one industry and not another – both in the sense of why a certain business has a higher chance of succeeding in showing up higher in a search, but also why SEO in a certain business has a higher “acquisition” rate (to use the Startup Metrics term).

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I didn't have any funding. I was a painter then, and I started selling all of my paintings to fund RecycledBride.

Startup 236

Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. in a Series A venture round.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

She was a painter (art not houses), who saw an opportunity and went for it, funding the company by taking a loan from her parents and selling off all of her paintings. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad.

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) SEO marketing vs. social marketing. And so is venture capital. It’s a bit of all of these. Commitment.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). You always have too much technical debt, too many problems, staff members quitting, not enough capital, customer complaints, etc. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. This empowers local florists to take advantage of things like organic SEO, and also helps them promote their current business, as well.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines. How are you funded and backed? We were funded a little over a year ago, which allowed us to get past some key milestones and get a higher valuation. It's a double viral loop.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. How is the company funded? Dan Yomtobian: The company was funded from selling stock in my other company, Findology. That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. On the entrepreneurial and fund-raising side, because the Founder Institute program I attended was based in Silicon Valley, many of my contacts are there. I'll be interested to see what it turns into. For me, it's a matter of degree.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285