Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

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). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yes, most of that is from NetFlix and YouTube and others delivering entertainment content. But an increasing amount is now coming from web sites and YouTube videos created by companies looking for an edge in their marketing efforts. Finally, content does not last forever. Positioning'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 51 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2011

Recently, we ran into Edo Cohen , CEO of Los Angeles-based Seevolution (www.seevolution.com), a firm developing web site heat map tracking software. Edo Cohen: Seevolution is a real time analytics and heat map company for web sites and web applications. How long has the product been available?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Widgets and badges.

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Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One of the best ways for increase in business development is to create a more responsive web design. This can help people to spend more time on your website, especially if they can have more fun and a more pleasant experience with your product through your website. Here are some of the most important features to consider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Widgets and badges.

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Content Tips Marketing Blogging 102

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2010

Pasadena-based FastSoft , a developer of web acceleration technology, said today that it has rolled out a new product targeted at Internet retailers, web companies, and CDNs. Pricing on the new product was not announced. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Much effort and study has been expended to determine how a web site can better convert its visitors to paying customers. Why tell someone about your product if you can give them a demonstration, and what better way to make that demonstration irresistible than to make it free? Sites like ww1.novarad.net Site Speed .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the Caltech spinout which develops web acceleration software, said today that it has launched a testing network for its clients. The firm claims its product speeds page downloads by 30 to 500 percent, without requiring client side software or browser plug-ins. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are some good examples of similar sites? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are some good examples of similar sites? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. But, the piece that we really wanted to set NowLive apart, is it's completely dedicated to professional live streaming content. Additionally, they are syndicated widely across the web.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Yet I am amazed to see from a recent survey that nearly half of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Web 62

Web Startup Sites Design 62

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. A good start is a classic book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Curation, the most efficient content. Win with engaging contests. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site.

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Web Startup Sites Design 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Content is king of the road. Marketing requires content, and nothing is “free.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , which develops products to help newspapers publishers take their content to mobile phones, is announcing this morning that it has partnered with Media News Group, A.H. million monthly page views. Separately, the firm said it has rolled out a new, iPhone 3.0 READ MORE>>.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web.

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Web Design Web Design Sites 58

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. for a shirt.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2009

San Diego- and Los Angeles- based video sharing site Veoh Networks is looking to have users continually view and find videos on the site in their web browser, saying today that it has rolled out a new web browser add-on. Other examples were pulling up videos of President Obama when browing related content.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. It looks like you now have a search engine, a browser, and now a content studio? Give us an overview on KidZui.

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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. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

You''ve seen the company''s work in the Superbowl, on television, and on the web, all for big brands--but you might not know it came out of the crowdsourcing efforts of Tongal (www.tongal.com). We caught up with James DeJulio , the company''s President and one of its co-founders, to hear about how the crowdsourced video site works.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. I knew how to build compelling content online, and to spread the word online.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

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Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. What is Laudville?

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

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). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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