Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

My answer: “no.&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people. We sold brand integration.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. Later on he would offer to share his advice on SEO with other portfolio companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The biggest roadblock is that startup founders already have too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, courting investors, etc. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Cultivate early customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. Let’s start with what I like most about the product. Basically, it rocks!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI).

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Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

Give them all the tools they will need to succeed at your company. If you invest in more training at the beginning of their careers, you’ll need to invest less down the road. Invest in the software that will take care of those repetitive tasks for you. But many companies hold meetings too often. Tap into SEO.

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SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

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. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. What I tell investors, friends, and family, is even though they might hear about all of these new companies calling themselves the Uber for tutoring and saying they can provide on-demand tutoring, I know that it will never work hyper-locally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products.

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Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. In small companies and startups, people seek out leaders they want to work for, in lieu of a big company with more job security. Investors invest in people as much as the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far?&# People tend to overvalue past investments when making forward-looking investment decisions. The sunk costs trap. Yes, even bootstrappers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Remember when you had to build a $1M factory to roll-out a new product?

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Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

Networking 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Venture Capital Guide CTO Coach Southern California 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky. They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. in Computer Science.

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Incubator CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

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. You mention the big companies, like FTD, 1-800 Flowers, etc. What is BloomNation? They have to pay for placement.

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Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. . -

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