Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. 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. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". I recently spoke with Michael Bleigh, Co-Founder and CEO of Divshot.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Stats… After Gawker properties live on Facebook Instant Articles, US UVs up to 4.7m, from earlier norm of 4m. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. 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. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Increase the production of your content. Search Engines.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. 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. Add content regularly. Add outgoing links.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. Celebrities care about their personal brands so will naturally rebuff requests to sponsor inauthentic products. Banner Ads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! 3) How has your role as the senior Tech Leader at the Rubicon Project and eHarmony influenced SteelHouse’s product roadmap and go-to-market strategy? Both companies (were) high-volume, scalable web infrastructures…that (has been) applied to the technology we are building.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. We will obviously take a page out of their successful playbook. I wasn’t.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! “We We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. One example of this is Nike’s shoe size page. See this Business News Daily article for some great examples that have benefited the customer as well as the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

This article will speak to reasons why retailers may choose to forgo mobile apps, and also argue that as consumers spend more time on their smartphones, building a responsive app that reaches out to customers, understands their behaviors and increases conversion rates ultimately benefits the brand. MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. We're not using the fast food model of content generation and generating thousands of articles a day of 200 words an article. Instead, we're going for quality over quantity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content below goes to goes to them as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? In this article we’ll get into how to effectively answer these questions. Campaigns that have 4 or more external social links on your campaign page do best.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. I played with both products and had good experiences. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We had agreed to a stated internal policy that even though taking this stance would mean our product would have considerably less traffic it was an important part of what we felt our long-term brand represented. We showed the journalist exact examples across 5 or 6 of the most popular web properties on the Internet. He published.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That became the underpinning of several products.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An interesting note: This entire conversation and subsequent article was prompted by an unexpected email – “Hey, let’s cover this. GumGum’s goal is to continue educating the market and selling the product – they’re expecting 400% growth next year. It’s a pretty interesting video by Gum Gum.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? It’s standardized.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. & #celebrity to pull off anything! B each Games.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? Be extra productive. Find IT Solutions Get more leads Pay-per-click puts your business at the top of search page results. Learn more. Fast Cities 13 cool and creative cities with brilliant initiatives.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He formerly served as Director of Product Management for Vocus (VOCS), a global PR and marketing technology provider, where he drove product platform strategy and roadmap execution for a variety of small business products including PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service. Mark Jeffrey – Co-Founder of ThisWeekIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Do this for a couple weeks!

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