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Rio SEO Raises New Funding, Takes Independent Path

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San Diego-based Rio SEO , the local search software development arm of Covario, said Wednesday that it has raised a new round of funding to take the company independent. According to Rio SEO, it has raised additional funding from FTV Capital, Dubilier & Co., Size and details of that investment were not disclosed.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. And so is venture capital. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Connections? I’ll let you decide which you’d want.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

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The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. Bessemer approached us. John Tomich: I came from the Internet side.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

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The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Then funds are released to the seller, and Recycled Bride takes a 9% commission on each sale. What is Recycled Bride?

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How Tradesy Makes Selling Women's Clothing Simple, with Tracy DiNunzio

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Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. It's as easy as Instagram, and takes no technical knowledge or sales knowledge. What is Tradesy?

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