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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. So it makes me wonder, should our schools teach Latin or HTML? Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships. Market forces win.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Maybe ten years.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? Often this ties to marketing support. What’s their specific need / pain?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? Often this ties to marketing support. What’s their specific need / pain?

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

Across the board, the whole company is very focused on the overall success of that program, to really drive the awareness and education in the market on those new TLDs, make it easier for people to get them, and not just letting them buy those TLDs, but helping them turn them into sites, blogs, and applications.

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