SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While it’s a messy topic, I’m going to try to lay out some of the additional questions that developers should be asking a Startup Founder around the performance requirements of the application. Is SEO important?

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Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

Perfect Market is developing software to automatically monetize long tail content from newspapers and other publishers, by matching their archive articles and applying SEO, social media, and other techniques--as well as matching advertisers--to that content. READ MORE>>.

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Altadena Marketing Idealab Journal 154

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

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). Marty Zwilling.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. We had a studio and invested in content creation. We built creators tools and website builders.

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Content Snapchat Platform SEO 150

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

It''s a new world out there for content creators on YouTube, who are now able to create their own--often substantial--following. But, how do you pay for that content and creativity? Agnes had developed a subscription service a year and a half ago, and wanted to try to connect with some YouTubers to promote that service on YouTube.

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Content Platform Startup Marketing 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. A greedy horde of bots pounces on every tweet containing a link, requesting its content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. How many adds came through organic SEO? 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.”.

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

One aspect of this past summer’s Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) I personally enjoyed, among everything else presented that weekend, was learning all about the new multi-channel networks available to showcase online content. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Tracking and performance reporting.

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

I spent probably the first six months of RecycledBride in creating lots of content. The easiest way to do that, was to become a resource for great content. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. Tracy DiNunzio: Honestly, hard work.

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Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Running a business is not an easy job. And be generous.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Market Structure.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

First, we had developed a relationship with top grocery bloggers, who we had been working with on online promotions. They had provided content on our website, and they had promoted to their audience on what we''re doing. They are providing the content, and more, for what we''re doing. But, a few things happened, all at once.

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Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Patrick Starzan is the Vice President of Marketing and Business development at Funny or Die. We focus on developing strong distribution channels through social media, search, blog outreach and email programs to accelerate the discovery, sharing and engagement with Funny Or Die content. Content is King – Have great content.

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Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot? Newsletters.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Normally, SEO is not cheap, and video is a very affordable way to boost your businesses search engine optimization, and help you to get discovered. We made our first investment in Serious Business, which is more of a traditional production companies, which takes online properties and develops them for TV and other platforms.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. My guess is that will be the case with a lot of different kinds of content and applications.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. Speaking of other site, how does this play into a world where there is so much free content out there? In a way, it's kind of like a book I'm reading right now on web SEO, which was packaged form individual blogs.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc.

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Startup IP Email Report 29