Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

According to Los Angeles-based search marketing company The Search Agency , more than one third of the total clicks on Google are now being driven by smartphones and tablets. The company''s report found that click volumes on smartphones increased by over 50 percent, and clicks increased by 63.4 READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP. But even this is changing.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Henry Blodget , was once the darling of Wall Street covering Internet securities at Merrill Lynch’s and reporting on businesses such as Infospace, Internet Capital Group and Amazon. Blodget says that “the key difference” between judging companies on Wall Street and in journalism “is that, on Wall Street, I was viewed as a financial adviser.”

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Henry Blodget , was once the darling of Wall Street covering Internet securities at Merrill Lynch’s and reporting on businesses such as Infospace, Internet Capital Group and Amazon. Blodget says that “the key difference” between judging companies on Wall Street and in journalism “is that, on Wall Street, I was viewed as a financial adviser.”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. Here’s one possible explanation – Job titles in a startup mean something different than titles in a large company. Kanye West. Advisory Board.

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