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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. Cost per click (CPC).

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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. A personal assistant must be highly organized and detail-oriented.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. At this point, we’re a little over 400 people, and we manage upward of $500 million in spend on Facebook and Google, including Instagram and YouTube.

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