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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views).

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SMCLA: Google Analytics Recap and Video

Tech Zulu Event

Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste skills ready and prepare to collect analytics data via the 2 lines or so of JavaScript provided by Google with your account. This is especially useful if you use links in social media (blogs, tweets, Facebook links or YouTube links) to grab some traffic. to buy my eBook”.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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The best entrepreneurs get market feedback regularly and change their approach based on the latest information. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. You’re forced to “pivot&# on a regular basis. Twitter was an offshoot of Odeo, a website focused on sound and podcasting. But year 5?

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. See Environment Details below for more information. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests. JavaScript. We routinely use other frameworks on client projects and we want this data to inform our recommendations for new projects. About this blog.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

Preliminary Information What are bots? all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. Examples of bots include those used by the search engines. You need to have a specific bot that you wish to block.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

SoCal Delicious

The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day. Javascript calls are an easy way for Facebook and StumbleUpon to put their links on your page but most networks also have a way to share through a URL. Thanks for the comment!

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