Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Statistics show that the failure rate for new businesses within the first four years is fifty percent or greater, even with companies that have a large startup budget. Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. Use social media to actively engage with your customers. Customer service is not just fixing problems.

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Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Customer 57

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. What's your background, and how did you get into this? for a shirt.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Maintains a “Trusted Directory” of TRUSTe certified companies. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers. The growth of the mobile app technology is something that companies, big or small, are riding on. We need an APP! Today, that oh-my-god moment refers to a mobile app.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We sat down with Lee Essner , the firm's CEO and founder, to chat about the company. The product is broad, because it covers everything from ancestry testing to whole genome scan, to genetic predisposition testing, which tests if you might have a risk of diabetes or heart disease. How did the company come about?

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Content Services Resource Sample 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. But on micro level, over-funding also creates performance problems for specific companies. Some will pay off, others will not.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean?

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