Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Keyword research and budget forecasting. PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you.

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PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. In our first year in businss, we had $1.7

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism. You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code.

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Yet their business was disrupted entirely by email because a small company called Research in Motion came out with a device that did email flawlessly – the Blackberry. I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. I used it to browse the web. And it turns out that – duh! Palm obliterated.

Email 386

Email Startup Marketing Competition 386

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. Our core business is the consulting and research services, and The Numbers really acts as a portal into what we do, a source of traffic, and getting the word out about what we do. a month per user, primarily someone using it for research.

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. Bill Curtis: To give you a quick history, CurtCo has a 30 year history.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

Blogging 83

Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We are constantly learning, doing research, and networking with other entrepreneurs, and people in our business who are the best at what they do.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets. I don’t.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Whether it was for our own personal morale, a last minute tax write off, or to support a loved one. However one thing Jobs left us with was the importance of cancer research and the help it can provide to those in need. Think of these web toolbars as your web applications or website’s own wristband.

News 82

News Research Web Writing 82

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. After a considerable amount of market research, we created the SureToMeet system that’s now used by organizations around the country. Cliff, remind me about your background? I've been following both of your blogs for a while.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone.

Truecar 204

Truecar Writing Edmunds Sites 204

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Whether it was for our own personal morale, a last minute tax write off, or to support a loved one. However one thing Jobs left us with was the importance of cancer research and the help it can provide to those in need. Think of these web toolbars as your web applications or website’s own wristband.

Web 61

Web News Research Writing 61

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Were Facebook not already on a path to becoming a dominant part of the web, this crossing of the trust barrier might have dealt an existential blow. I even had some reservations about writing this blog post this because I have no desire to p**s off other investors or great entrepreneurs. The guy was understandably pissed off.

Blogging 328

Blogging Content Press Startup 328

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). If you do have a separate web domain name, like ‘www.domainname.com’, then your blog name should be the suffix ‘/blog’ or ‘blog.domainname.com’. Many now skip the separate static website.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Cloud productivity services like Office 365 and Office Web Apps are now being used by more than 80 million people worldwide. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content goes to Zack Schuler of Cal Net Technology Group, Founder & CEO. And that’s just a few of the scenarios.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: I started in the technology industry by writing software for imaging microscopes--looking at things like cell populations using early CCD cameras and understanding cell morphology; working on video compression; working on networking stuff and software for early digital telephony like ISDN and on forward.

Los Angeles 203

Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Go research it. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Keyword research and budget forecasting. SEM experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This experience made me want to dig into my archives, re-write & publish this piece. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. Do research and find some CEO’s who were fired by the VC. I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married.

Venture Capital 298

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Capital Help 298

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Evernote is the most incredible notetaking tool keeping me organized while catering to my ADD personality and click addiction web research. However, when I met up with the founders of Annotary I was intrigued as they described that their tool allows you to highlight and write notes straight on the websites I’m reading.

Startup 77

Startup Conference Google Web 77

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. That degree of turnkey, layered experience is just not possible on the mobile Web. 98 percent for mobile sites.

Mobile 40

Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You may think you are an expert in your domain, but until you try to write things down in simple terms in a blog for other people, you don’t realize what you don’t know. Doing the research to clarify allows you to share effectively. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. I learn something new every day in blogging.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Blogging Social Media 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. actually did the fundamental research in the 90’s at the Medialab. Or, as always, summary notes available below. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. Mobile coupon redemption has always struggled with ensuring a seamless experience at the point of sale,” contemporary research states.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations.

Education 40

Education Ideas Knowledge Base JavaScript 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Finance), because they save us hours-upon-hours of searching, indexing, and for today’s student, researching. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0. Time is money. Time is money.

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. If in high school you got a 3.6

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332