Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2017

The company focuses on website development, SEO, Facebook ads, and review monitoring. San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2010

The new offering will provide SEO services and content advertising services. Tags: citysearch venture capital orangesoda investment online local marketing advertising. OrangeSoda is a provider of online search marketing services and search engine optimization. Financial terms of the strategic investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Holocognics would break it down even further and discuss why, for instance, SEO works in one industry and not another – both in the sense of why a certain business has a higher chance of succeeding in showing up higher in a search, but also why SEO in a certain business has a higher “acquisition” rate (to use the Startup Metrics term).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Early in his days when he was raising capital for DocStoc he came to see me a lot. Later on he would offer to share his advice on SEO with other portfolio companies. I wrote about there here. When you want press, it will come. Some practical examples. Jason Nazar is a master networker. As good as they come. He would send deals.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

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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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. I got involved talking with Constantine, to see if I could poke as many holes as I could in the business, and found that it is completely bullet proof. Do users buy or rent these?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

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. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. Market Structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

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. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

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. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. What is Tradesy?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

SEO marketing vs. social marketing. And so is venture capital. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ll let you decide which you’d want. Commitment.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This empowers local florists to take advantage of things like organic SEO, and also helps them promote their current business, as well. Concurrently with our product launch, we announced our seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab. They have to pay for placement.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines. When we thought we had the right mix, we went to look for angel capital, and raised $1.3M in angel capital from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other unaffiliated angels.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Especially when video is the 2nd highest SEO traffic builder and YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world. There’s really no excuse people aren’t creating content they’re passionate about when there are such great resources and opportunities to learn available.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). You always have too much technical debt, too many problems, staff members quitting, not enough capital, customer complaints, etc. That’s because that’s how it ALWAYS feels at a startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Funding was a major challenge for Tracy, since she had no experience in the space and needed to prove her model before finding investment capital. She also had to learn every aspect of running a technology business on her own, teaching herself the necessary skills (social media, SEO, design, some light coding, etc) by simply Googling it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. We don't have any outside investors, venture capital, or private equity. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

We’re all so caught up in social media marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) that we tend to forget one on one relationships are the most powerful of them all. From left to right: Mike Coffey (DeveloperTown), Manpreet Singh (Seva Call), Jonathon Perrelli (Fortify.vc), Frank Gruber (Tech Cocktail). Word of mouth travels far.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 9mm – Investor: Sequoia Capital (Michael Moritz) – Read more: TechCrunch , PaymentsViews. 5.3mm – Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures – Read more: TechCrunch.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. SEO in #20tweets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 13, 2010 Recently I spoke at Dreamit Ventures on SEO. And then I took a stand. Productivity.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Improve SEO. List your business online with MerchantCircle , Manta , Yelp and DandB.com. Financing and Business Planning. Recommended. Recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. This article has been syndicated in partnership with SEO’Brien.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. My professional background is in online ads, social media, and venture capital. Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. Email updates » RSS updates » About Futuristic Play.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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