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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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Covario Scores SEO Patent

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The firm said the patent covers technology used in its SEO Audit Score System. Covario is venture backed by Dubilier & Company, FTV Capital, and Voyager Capital. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent number is 7,877,392. According to the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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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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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Why You Should Give Before You Get

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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. Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. I wrote about there here. When you want press, it will come.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

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Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. Bessemer approached us.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. What is Ulevate?

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