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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. John Wanamaker. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. That goes for HEAD requests just chasing for a 301/302/307 redirect response code and a “location&# header, too.