Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 5, 2010

#2 Loss of Privacy – It is also in your hands to decide what kind of information you want to share about yourself online. You need to decide on what information to share; and what information to keep for yourself. The Internet is a public domain and most of the information you publish will be there for a long time.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Education Organic Search 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset. In my mind “the stream&# changes that equation.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). First, I have chosen who to follow on Twitter so the information in my stream is self selected.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. The venture capital process is a necessary and informative experience that is not for the faint hearted. It seemed that the main discovery mechanism was the “blog roll&# that everybody kept.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274