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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. How do people drive SEO growth? Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D.