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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. sites still dominate. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 11:40-14:15). Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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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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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

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We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. in a Series A venture round.

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Kevin Federline Search Engine

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talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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

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The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing. RecycledBride really has become a popular site. 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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