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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. I'm hoping to figure out a way to spark a meet-up around SEO / SEM in Santa Monica / West Los Angeles / South Bay. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering.

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Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation

TechCrunch LA

New York City-based Squarespace has over 1,200 employees spread across its headquarters and offices in Dublin, Ireland; Portland, Oregon; and Los Angeles, California. . Declining ad rates may signal a reset for startup SEM strategies.

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Anametrix Gets Funding, Adds Advisors

socalTECH

Senturia is CEO of Blackbird Ventures, and a notable San Diego angel investor. Anametrix is headed by Blasie Barrelet, and says it is developing software to correlate web analytics, social media, search engine marketing (SEM), video & audio, e-mail campaigns, market research and other data for businesses. READ MORE>>.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005.

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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

Both Sides of the Table

Think of Scooter as Justin’s angel investor. Only after you’ve done all this can you consider whether or not it makes sense to pay for any marketing such as SEM, PR, trade show expenditure, etc. Justin then had a meeting with Usher where he sang him a song he himself had recorded.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.