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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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But if your goal is to develop an audience that can be monetized in other ways, I’ll repeat my argument “you need to fish in the pond where the fish are.” But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. And here’s the thing … YouTube PAYS YOU to develop these audiences.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. How many through SEM? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. That’s not acceptable. But what is industry standard? Is it 4/1,000?

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive. They basically said, ‘Anybody who is a developer, come hang out here at Trada and we’ll give you coffee and food and a desk and Internet and you can plant here… and of course, some of those people (became) optimizers.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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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 Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. What is Ulevate? Instead, we give it to them for free. Eighteen to twenty percent of the revenue is services.

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