SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Great stuff!

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google. Hone your communication skills.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. Back then, it was a much different game, and there was not much of an emphasis on social and more on SEO. million in funding, but ended up burning through it. We came together in 2008, to focus on digital content.

Media 100

Media Content News SEO 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. Oh, and he was acquired by and worked at Google. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Establish visibility and attract funding sources. All of this is possible on every entrepreneur’s budget, since the major blogging platforms, including Tumblr, WordPress and Blogger (Google) are free. Each can be linked directly into your site domain name for maximum SEO impact.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. How is the company funded?

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. Let me be very direct. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 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. It’s a bit of all of these. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work. He founded Doubleclick, which he sold to Google, and he sold his last company to Amazon. Finally, what's next for the company?

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. 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

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. It's just a matter of time--when someone goes to Google and searches for a ball bearing, that search will be dominated by our content. How are you funded and backed?

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 This is something Ive always wondered about.

Incubator 150

Incubator CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Thanks in advance!

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. 20 hrs ago. Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

More recently, a conflict with Google over SEO practices saw heavy penalties on their search results, but ultimately led to a resolution between the two parties. We had users, and even when people wanted to give us money – they wouldn’t even have known how to fund us. But YC was how we got serious.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. Any funding yet? social is where it is.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. For example add trailing slashes –if necessary–, and remove clutter from query strings. requestScript; if (!empty($qs))

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

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