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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

socalTECH

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage. Gordon Gould: Yes.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. You must invest in technology. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? 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. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through SEM?

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Interview with Alec Shankman, Gotcast

socalTECH

News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people There was some beautiful web sites that were built, but I know from my time as a talent agent, these guys were spending a lot of time and money on content, but not spending a lot of time on how to monetize it. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) Most VCs are book smart. Smart is simply not a differentiator.